{"id":23987,"date":"2019-05-20T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=366135"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:06:03","slug":"cdot-is-tearing-up-its-9-billion-to-do-list-and-the-rewrite-may-include-more-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/cdot-is-tearing-up-its-9-billion-to-do-list-and-the-rewrite-may-include-more-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"CDOT is tearing up its $9 billion to-do list \u2014 and the rewrite may include more transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/cd07northi25_ac_ac23928x-001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/cd07northi25_ac_ac23928x-001.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/cd07northi25_ac_ac23928x-001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/cd07northi25_ac_ac23928x-001-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\"><figcaption><strong>Interstate 25 near Loveland is shown in this 2014 file photo.<\/strong><br \/><em>Andy Cross, The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Light-rail train horns interrupted a news conference announcing Colorado\u2019s new push for public input on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/03\/19\/colorado-transportation-money\/\">its transportation priorities<\/a>. State officials couldn\u2019t have asked for a better reminder that getting around doesn\u2019t always mean new pavement.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely that the 10-year priority plan that results from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/programs\/colorado-transportation-matters\/your-transportation-plan\/engagement-opportunties\">a listening tour of all 64 counties<\/a> this summer will include plenty of highway repaving and widening, especially for long-neglected stretches now throttled by burgeoning growth.<\/p>\n<p>But the Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s new leader said Friday that simply accommodating more cars won\u2019t work as planners work out a wholesale update for CDOT\u2019s long-discussed $9 billion backlog list of maintenance and projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThinking about how we solve for capacity in a way that preserves the things that people love about living in Colorado has to be a multimodal solution,\u201d said Executive Director Shoshana Lew, Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 appointee to head CDOT, after the event. \u201cI\u2019ll use I-25 as an example, because the biggest capacity (expansion) projects we have right now, other than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/i-70-expansion-project\/\">Central 70<\/a> (in Denver), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/09\/24\/interstate-25-gap-express-lanes-construction\/\">are on I-25<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to be able to build our way out of congestion on a corridor where 85 percent of a growing population lives. The math just doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/20\/colorado-transportation-priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"full story on The Denver Post website. (opens in a new tab)\">full story on The Denver Post website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/cdot-is-tearing-up-its-9-billion-to-do-list-and-the-rewrite-may-include-more-transit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interstate 25 near Loveland is shown in this 2014 file photo.Andy Cross, The Denver Post Light-rail train horns interrupted a news conference announcing Colorado\u2019s new push for public input on its transportation priorities. State officials couldn\u2019t have asked for a better reminder that getting around doesn\u2019t always mean new pavement. It\u2019s likely that the 10-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:18:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}