Tasked with maintaining 23,000 miles of highway, 3,500 bridges and the 35 mountain passes in the state that are open year-round, the Colorado Dept. of Transportation (CDOT) recently reached out to the public for help in creating a plan about how to spend an anticipated $1.7 billion in state funding over the next several years.
To determine the smartest use of these funds, CDOT officials spent five months engaging residents from across the state via telephone town halls, booths at community fairs and festivals, online surveys and 64 county meetings. The result is a 10-year strategic pipeline of projects created by CDOT based on those conversations called “Your Transportation Plan.”