In a short three paragraph statement released late Thursday afternoon, Gov. Mark Gordon announced Wyoming Dept of Transportation Director Luke Reiner would be retiring.
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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 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.
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.
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.”
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.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has initiated 240 separate projects to address the 6,000+ vehicle-wildlife collisions that happen every year in Wyoming.
Although it’s the dog days of summer, winter weather comes early in Yellowstone. WYDOT has offered to keep a critical road open if a flood-damaged road isn’t fixed in time.
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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Dozens of travelers have been rescued on Monday after a massive spring storm dumped more than three feet of snow in northwest Wyoming
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Teton County on Tuesday reversed course and unanimously approved a WYDOT request for a zoning change that will allow the department to build employee housing on its land in Jackson.
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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.
Despite the dire need of housing in Jackson — with rents topping $3,600 a month and houses averaging $3 million — Teton County Planning denied WYDOT the ability to build housing on state property for its employees who can’t afford to live there.
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.
There are 62,620 miles of highway in Wyoming. And not enough snowplow drivers to cover them all.
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With numerous truck blow-overs occurring over the weekend, WYDOT is reminding motorists if winds are gusting to hurricane category strength, it may not be a good time to drive.
Despite having a significant shortage of snowplow drivers, WYDOT said they have a strategy to keep up with snow removal.
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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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.
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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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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A controversial bill that could have generated funds for Wyoming highways has died in a legislative committee.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol said Friday’s series of accidents involved over 27 vehicles — 23 of which were commercial trucks.
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.
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.
A toll proposed for Interstate 80 traffic could help the Wyoming Department of Transportation reduce the $41.5 million yearly funding deficit for maintaining the corridor, but not everyone is on board.
The average English-speaking American adult has a 42,000 -word vocabulary. But the state employees who vet submissions for vanity Wyoming license plates have been exposed to thousands more.
The state’s two twin-engine passenger jets — nicknamed “Wyoming’s Air Force” — spend most of their time ferrying state officials around Wyoming, but about 10 percent of the flights leave the state, according to state records.
Crews from the Wyoming Department of Transportation are working this week to clear the Snowy Range Road between Laramie and Saratoga of snow drifts reaching more than 6 feet in depth.
There is a lot of manpower – and horsepower – required to get things back up and running after a massive storm.
