Craig Mongeau - CEG Editor in Chief - Wed June 19, 2019
ETI Launches Repair Facility to Expand Customer Service
An equipment dealer in northern Colorado is thinking about the entire world. Equipment and Trucks Inc. (ETI) has launched ETI Fluid Power — a hydraulic service and repair business — in Loveland, Colo., and will open a second location soon....
Colorado DOT - Wed June 19, 2019
CDOT Makes Decision to Re-Route Road Around Massive 'Memorial Rock'
Instead of demolishing and hauling away an 8.5-million-pound boulder that contributed to the destruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Cortez and Telluride on May 26, the Colorado Department of Transportation is instead going to re-route the roadway around it — and save $200,000 in the process, according to news reports....
Colorado Department of Transportation - Wed June 05, 2019
CDOT Asks for Public's Input
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) was joined by Lt. Gov., Dianne Primavera and transportation planners from across the state to start a transportation conversation with all Coloradans to create a new 10-year plan of priority transportation projects....
Associated Press - Wed June 05, 2019
Workers Blast Giant Boulder Blocking Colorado Highway
CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) Workers have blasted apart a house-sized boulder that crashed onto and shut down a southwestern Colorado highway linking Durango and Ouray. The Colorado Department of Transportation said trucks are hauling away fragments of the 1,150-ton (1,047-t) rock from state Highway 145 while workers build a temporary bypass....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 22, 2019
Crews, Equipment Scale Colorado's Pikes Peak
Crews began mobilizing in early May for the 2019 construction season on the new $60 million Pikes Peak Summit House, arguably the highest elevation project in the country. It's also likely one of the more daunting as work takes place at 14,000 ft....
Colorado Department of Transportation - Wed May 22, 2019
CDOT Begins Improvements on CO 145 North of Telluride
CDOT and contractor Oldcastle SW Group Inc., have begun a project on CO Highway 145 just northwest of Telluride. The work will improve safety for motorists by widening the two-lane highway, adding a southbound, uphill passing lane (towards Telluride) and improving shoulders between mile point (MP) 73.9 at lllium Road (County Road 65L) and MP 75.1 at Deep Creek Road....
Associated Press - Wed May 08, 2019
Colorado Agencies Work to Minimize Impact on Eagles
BOULDER (AP) Colorado agencies overseeing a road construction project west of Boulder that includes blasting are taking care to not disturb golden eagles that nest in the area. The Daily Camera reported that rock blasting was set for the lower Boulder Canyon along Colorado 119....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 10, 2019
CDOT Adds Lanes to I-25 With $350M Project
In what's considered the fastest delivery of a project of its size in Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) history, construction crews are making steady progress on the I-25 South Gap project....
Associated Press - Wed April 10, 2019
Government OKs Road at Colorado Ski Resort
DENVER (AP) The U.S. Forest Service approved construction of a road across public land to reach private property where a developer plans to build condos and restaurants at a remote Colorado ski area. The decision was the latest milestone in a three-decade battle between the developer and environmentalists over the proposed Village at Wolf Creek in the southwestern corner of the state....
Colorado Department of Transportation - Wed March 27, 2019
CDOT Begins Wall Repairs Along I-25
On Feb. 20, the Colorado Department of Transportation and Structures Inc. closed Serpentine Drive south of U.S. Highway 24 from mile post (MP) 32 to MP 33 to begin repairs to the location's historic retaining wall....
