One person was killed and an unknown number of injuries were reported in two separate accidents involving more than 40 vehicles between Elk Mountain and Laramie on Saturday afternoon.
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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.
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.
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.
Months after proposing a rerouting of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins, there’s still no progress because of the anticipated price tag of up to $12.6 billion.
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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.
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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While the Federal Highway Administration has OK’d Wyoming’s EV plan, it denied most exemption requests to the 50-mile charge station rule.
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.
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.
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.
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 controversial bill that could have generated funds for Wyoming highways has died in a legislative committee.
A semi-truck driver on Thursday, who apparently fell asleep at the wheel, drove his truck into the North Platte River.
“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
