Two multi-vehicle crashes which resulted in one fatality on Interstate 80 on Saturday have resulted in nearly the entire stretch of highway being closed until Monday evening.
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It’s deja-vu all over again at the Cheyenne airport. All flights have been canceled from April to September in order to work on the runway again.
It’s still not fixed. Last month, nine motorists got stranded in a blizzard in Sweetwater County after their navigation systems directed them to unmaintained dirt roads in the middle of nowhere.
Unfunded mandate? After Wyoming receives $24 million from the federal government for EV charging stations, they’ll only support them for 5 years. Then Wyoming is on its own and projections show they won’t be profitable for at least 20 years.
Don’t agree with the “road closed” sign on a Wyoming roadway? You can blast past it legally if you have a W-TAP authorization code. It allows motorists to drive on closed roads as long as their justification has been approved.
It’s a good idea not to just rely on navigation apps when driving on Wyoming roads in the winter. Google Maps keeps trying to reroute drivers to a closed, impassable road when a section of I-80 gets closed near Rawlins.
Although magnesium chloride highway de-icer can harm fish, Wyoming biologists say we don’t use enough of it to be a concern.
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The Department of Transportation is proposing a new rule that would require all commercial trucks to have tracking devices installed and the data would be accessible to law enforcement whenever they want it.
Although the Wyoming Department of Transportation has recorded an increase in the number of Welcome to Wyoming signs being stolen, it’s not as bad as Shitterton, UK where they gave up and just engraved its name on 3,000 pound rocks.
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In the face of an extreme shortage of personnel, the Wyoming Department of Transportation is having to triage highway safety, making difficult decisions that will leave some roads unplowed after snow events and some fender-benders without an attending officer.
Cheyenne IT consultant TJ Doan says he enjoys driving his Tesla Model 3 so much that he works as an Uber and Lyft driver on weekends just for the fun of driving his car.
Wyoming highways were littered with wrecked semi-trucks on Saturday as 100 mph winds wreaked havoc in the Cowboy State. One gust blew a 4,000-pound trailer off the highway “like a tumbleweed.”
Truckers stranded on the Wyoming side of the Colorado state line after Thursday’s snowstorm are wondering why the roads were so much better south of the border?
Good news for people who hate the color of the new Wyoming license plate. It’s actually blue, not black. WYDOT says it’s the same color of the Wyoming state flag.
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Finding places to power-up and long waits to charge meant it took one Nissan Leaf owner 15 hours to drive from Cheyenne to Casper (178 miles).
What used to be Wyoming’s most popular airline is combating the pilot shortage in an unconventional way: hiring pilots who don’t know how to fly.
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Because Wyoming lacks the infrastructure to support electric vehicles, the state maintains no EVs in its 5,000+ vehicle-fleet and has no plans to change in the immediate future.
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Last week, a fiery crash claimed the life of a semi truck driver who failed to navigate “Deadman’s Curve” on Highway 16 near Buffalo, Wyoming.
Automotive insiders say car chargers are key to tourism because where the car chargers are, the tourists go. They also say the more car chargers there are in Wyoming will mean more residents who will buy electric cars.
If you are traveling across Wyoming in the next few months, it’s not going to be easy. Road construction is everywhere.
After a late spring storm delayed its opening in May and the Yellowstone flood damaged the roadway in June, the Beartooth Highway is set to finally open on Friday, July 22.
Google Maps is wrongly telling drivers that Interstate 80 is closed, the Wyoming Dept of Transportation has announced. As a result, the GPS is rerouting people to Colorado adding many hours to their trips.
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Water cannons on Wednesday christened the arrival of the first jet to land on the Jackson Hole Airport’s new $44 million runway.
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SkyWest, the regional airline that services most airports in Wyoming, has asked the Dept of Transportation to allow them to remove 20 seats in their airplanes. This would allow them to use pilots who have lower-level certifications.
After 12 days, the famed Beartooth Highway is open again. Ten foot snow drifts and avalanches kept the roadway closed but now WYDOT is optimistic it will stay open through the summer.
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Although it may be tempting to place election signs in the middle of highways, roads, and public rights-of-way for maximum exposure, WYDOT said they will remove the sign if it violates state law.
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation has suspended all new orders of personalized, or prestige, license plates due to the shortage of aluminum.
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WYDOT Director Luke Reiner told a legislative committee on Wednesday that due to the inefficiency of building electric charging stations on empty stretches of Wyoming highways, the state will appeal for exemptions from the ‘every 50 miles’ requirement.
Delays between Shoshoni and Thermopolis in the Wind River Canyon could last up to a month as a result of a major rockslide that occurred last Saturday.
Although some parents were proud of the Powell students who helped clear boulders from a rock slide in the Wind River Canyon on Saturday, the Wyoming Dept of Transportation said it was a “volatile situation” and they could have gotten hurt.
Widespread EV adoption would require rare earth minerals which are in short supply in the United States. Importing the minerals spark ethical questions as rare earth minerals extraction overseas often involves child slave labor and can damage the environment.
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Wind gusts, blowing snow, cold temperatures, and icy road conditions are being blamed for the three rollovers and two jackknifed semi-trucks on 1-90 and other roadways in Campbell County
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Although there are only 456 electric cars registered in Wyoming, more than one-third of those are in Teton County. Three counties, Big Horn, Crook, and Niobrara, have no electric vehicles.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation will hold a series of public meetings to develop a plan to use $25 million to provide incentives for private companies to build the stations across the state.
A bill proposing a 15-cent per gallon increase in gas taxes would help the state meet its basic highway maintenance needs, according to one of its sponsors.
A Colorado State Patrol trooper was nearly hit on Tuesday following a traffic stop on Interstate 25.
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The Wyoming Dept of Transportation has asked the federal government to reroute parts of Interstate 80 to avoid the severe winter weather which causes constant closures.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation has a few tricks up its sleeve when it comes to keeping cars and trucks “moving” during a weather event like the ones that slowed travel on interstates over the last few weekends.
Traffic was running smoothly across Wyoming on Monday as a storm front that rocked the state over the weekend with hurricane-force winds abated.
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation is currently participating in a pilot project that is exploring ways to get year-round value from snow fences, the department recently announced.
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There are 62,620 miles of highway in Wyoming. And not enough snowplow drivers to cover them all.
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Despite having a significant shortage of snowplow drivers, WYDOT said they have a strategy to keep up with snow removal.
Air travel in and out of Cheyenne will resume next month, the Cheyenne Regional Airport announced on Thursday.
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Motorists on Interstate 80 on Wednesday spotted an airplane/truck Frankenstein-looking vehicle on Wednesday.
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The Air Force Reserve landed a C-130J Super Hercules on a highway near Rawlins today as part of a week long training exercise.
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Four days after the ceremony, I-80 was closed due to winter weather. Waggener said, “The people of Wyoming could have said, ‘We told you so!’”
An $8.78 million slide stabilization/rock scaling project is scheduled began Tuesday, alongside U.S. Highway 20/Wyo. Highway 789 through the Wind River Canyon.
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Those thousands of visitors making their way to the state’s top tourist destinations may be getting a break home, but they won’t get much in the way of a break from highway construction delays this week.
Hurry up and wait remains the rule for a number of Wyoming’s highways as the state’s road construction season continues in full swing.
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A military truck carrying ammunition caught fire on Interstate 80 near Evanston on Monday.
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Dozens of road construction projects all over Wyoming have created traffic delays nearly everywhere.
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As is often said, there are four seasons in Wyoming — Winter, late winter, early winter and construction.
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The Wyoming Dept of Transportation will open US 14 A, a 22-mile stretch of scenic mountain road in northern Wyoming, at noon on Friday, May 28.
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For the first time in nearly a year, Wyoming rest stops opened up on Friday morning and cars were lining up before the 6am opening.
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As part of President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, WYDOT is putting together a “wish list” of projects including a 1.3 mile tunnel through Teton Pass.
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The State of Wyoming is planning on re-opening 9 of the 10 rest stops in Wyoming that were closed due to budget cuts.
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By the end of June, Chief Joseph Scenic Byway will be back to “normal” for the first time in more than four years.
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A couple driving a Volvo got stuck in snow after driving around a “road closed” sign on Highway 212 in Park County, Wyoming.
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A controversial bill that could have generated funds for Wyoming highways has died in a legislative committee.
A bill which would allow traffic cameras to catch truckers who illegally use Teton Pass is still alive after killing an amendment which would have allowed cameras in construction zones.
Wyoming winds expected gusting to speeds of more than 60 mph almost pushed an Amazon semi-trailer off of a bridge on Interstate 25 south of Chugwater on Monday.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation is reminding drivers to be aware of snowplows after seeing 10 collisions involving the plows over a five-day period.
A semi hauling a giant wind turbine blade, a semi hauling cattle, and a pilot vehicle on Wednesday were were involved in a fiery accident.
During the 2-minute expletive-filled video, the men do a play-by-play narration as near hurricane force winds blow a semi over.
I-80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins are completely closed due to multiple accidents and snowy weather.
Wyoming is off-track when it comes to roadway safety and mental health services, a recent National Safety Council summary revealed.
U.S. Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao announced Tuesday that the Federal Transit Authority will award $4.2 million in transit infrastructure funding to improve the safety and reliability of Wyoming’s bus systems and enhance mobility for transit riders.
Around 2:55 p.m. on Saturday, the train derailed 39 cars four miles east of Rock Springs. Nine cars were damaged or on fire.
The rest area closures will result in a savings to WYDOT of approximately $197,453 from June 15 through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. After that, the department will save about $789,812 per year.
A Utah woman became the 30th fatality on Wyoming highways this year when she was killed in a crash in Sublette County over Memorial Day weekend.
Harvey Besneatte, 71, and Robert Besneatte, 54, were driving southbound on U.S. Highway 287 in a Dodge Ram 2500 pickup around 11 a.m on May 21.
If you’ve always wanted to watch a couple thousand sheep crossing a bridge via drone, you’re in luck.
The 68-mile-pass, which is only open for a few months each year, gets clobbered by snow during the offseason and still could.
Wyomingites are traveling significantly less since Gov. Mark Gordon urged residents to stay at home on March 25
A semi-truck driver on Thursday, who apparently fell asleep at the wheel, drove his truck into the North Platte River.
Is a pandemic the best or worst time to get your driver’s license renewed? We found out.
Gov. Mark Gordon announced Tuesday that he signed an executive order granting a reprieve for those with expired driver’s licenses.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol said Friday’s series of accidents involved over 27 vehicles — 23 of which were commercial trucks.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation announced it will work with the Wyoming Highway Patrol to ensure COVID-19-related supplies are delivered despite blizzard conditions which could hit the state.
The three people killed in Sunday’s massive accidents on Interstate 80 west of Rawlins all died in accidents that occurred in the interstate’s westbound lanes, the Wyoming Highway Patrol announced Thursday.
So far, I-80 was closed 55 times since October, WYDOT reported. The previous high for I-80 was 54 closures during the 2015-2016 winter season,
Much of Interstate 80 from Cheyenne to Rock Springs remained closed Tuesday morning as the Wyoming Highway Patrol continued its work to remove wreckage from two enormous accidents that occurred Sunday.
If you were worried about Interstate 80 turning into a toll road, put those worries to bed.
WYDOT annually maintains about 6,700 miles of road which will cost roughly $28 million this year on winter road maintenance — about 30 percent of its annual budget.
More accidents on Interstate 80 on Friday morning has led the to closure of the Interstate between Laramie and Cheyenne.
“In comparing the effect of a truck on a road to a car, I’ve heard a lot of numbers. The estimate range is anywhere from one truck equals 380 cars to one truck equals 4,000 cars.” — WYDOT Director Luke Reiner
Wyoming’s Department of Transportation is continuing its work to stabilize falling rock that has created a hazard for several years on a highway between Cody and Yellowstone National Park.
Maintaining roads is costly business, but it’s made costlier by fluctuating oil prices and increased semi-truck traffic, a Wyoming Department of Transportation official said.
It is time for the state to study a possible increase in gasoline taxes, according to the co-chairman of the Legislature’s Revenue Committee.
Wyoming State Representative Landon Brown is opposed to turning Interstate 80 into a toll road. Cowboy State Daily sat down with him recently and discussed why he doesn’t like the idea:
