The Littleton Independent reports that the Colorado Department of Transportation will soon install concrete barriers known as “Jersey” barriers between the north and southbound lanes from Aspen Grove Way to Vinewood Street.

The safety project in the 50-mph section will help prevent head-on collisions, CDOT says. The project is scheduled to begin this summer, according to Nashat Sawaged, an engineer with CDOT.

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is getting ready to move all traffic on the current 4th Street Bridge onto the new westbound structure by 7 a.m. on Friday, April 16.

Drivers should expect occasional traffic stops and delays up to 10 minutes through the area on Thursday as preparations are made for the realignment.

The Colorado Department of Transportation and contractor Flatiron Construction will be switching eastbound traffic approaching the rockfall work zone tomorrow at 1 PM. At mile marker 125—about a half mile from the current work zone, eastbound traffic will be switched to the left (inside) lane to allow crews to make bridge deck repairs in the right lane.

Eastbound traffic will then shift back to the right lane just before Hanging Lake Tunnel, where both east- and westbound traffic utilize the eastbound lanes, separated by a concrete barrier.

The Regional Transportation District Board of Directors decided at a Special Board Meeting tonight, April 13, not to pursue a 2010 sales tax election for the FasTracks transit expansion program. For months, the agency has been evaluating cost, schedule and polling data, and considering public feedback on whether to seek an increase in the RTD sales tax of an additional four-tenths of a percent (four pennies on a $10 purchase) to complete the FasTracks program by 2017.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has begun another resurfacing project in the San Luis Valley that will improve US 160 east of Del Norte. This project is made possible with $ 7.5 million in funding from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well an additional $482,000 in CDOT resurfacing funds.

“We had a number of great ARRA projects this past construction season, with many winning state and national awards for quality,” CDOT Region 5 Transportation Director Richard Reynolds said. “We also had great prices and these savings allowed us to fund this resurfacing project on US 160 west of Del Norte. In addition to repaving almost 15 miles of US 160, we will be adding Americans with Disability Act-approved sidewalk ramps to aid access from the highway to Del Norte’s sidewalks.”

The Denver Post reports that RTD directors will decide Tuesday night whether to endorse a ballot measure in November that would double the FasTracks sales tax in metro Denver. Directors have signaled they are leaning toward postponing the vote, mostly likely until 2012, because polling indicates it will be very difficult to win an election for a tax increase this year.

Fox21 in Colorado Springs reports that the Colorado Department of Transportation has recently been working on a study concerning the future of Powers Boulevard.

Things they have been looking at include ways to reduce current and future traffic congestion on Powers. One of the proposals includes turning the road into a freeway between Woodmen Road and the Colorado Springs Airport.

So far the process has included holding open houses, mailing newsletters, and having individual meetings with local residents.

Concrete repairs on C-470 between I-25 and Santa Fe Drive will once again take place this weekend and next week. This weekend, crews will work from 8 p.m. on Friday, April 9th to 5 a.m. on Monday, April 12th, weather permitting. During this time, closures will be in place on C-470 and major delays are expected.

RTD again offers RockiesRide service to all weekend 2010 Rockies home games, and select weekday games including Opening Day Friday, April 9. Light Rail available for all games. RTD offers RockiesRide to all weekend games and the following weekday games: Friday, April 9 (Opening Day); Tuesday, June 22, Wednesday, June 23 and Thursday, June 24 (Red Sox Games); Friday, July 2, (fireworks), Friday, July 30, (Cubs Game) and Friday, September 24, (fireworks). RockiesRide express bus service will get fans to Coors Field 30-60 minutes before the first pitch.

By a vote of 38 to 27, the Colorado House of Representatives voted on April 2 to approve HB 10-1387, which seeks to annually divert approximately $20 million ̶ $200 million over the coming decade ̶ away from the Highway User Tax Fund (HUTF), which pays for bridge and highway repairs, to the Department of Revenue for administering/issuing driver’s licenses and associated examinations, renewals, permits, and State identification cards.