CDOT says the current plan for closed I-70 through Glenwood Canyon is to repair a large hole in the eastbound structure, then reopen it to one lane in each direction. That would allow traffic to resume while repairs are made on the larger hole in the westbound structure.

If Sen. Jim Bunning had not balked at the end of his far-from-perfect game on the floor of the U.S. Senate, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the team of contractors out in the field on numerous federal-aid highway projects stood to lose an average of $1.76 million in reimbursement per workday.

Matt Salek, webmaster of the Highways of Colorado site and blogger on transportation issues at Milepost 61, decided to go skiing on Sunday and leave early to avoid the traffic jams. Didn’t work. The early jamming wasn’t at the Eisenhower Tunnel, which gets all the notice, but at the Twin Tunnels in Idaho Springs. Read about it here.

The beefed-up late fees that came with last year’s FASTER bill made a lot of procrastinating motorists angry but they have also had a much quieter and positive effect. More and more people are registering their vehicles on time rather than letting their expired registrations lag.

The Denver Post reports that Sens. Chris Romer, D-Denver, and Dan Gibbs, D-Silverthorne, intend to introduce legislation that would place movable concrete barriers on westbound Interstate 70 on weekend afternoons, temporarily using the inside lane for a third eastbound lane along one of the roadway’s most snarled segments. Another bill would restrict trucks to the right lane during congested hours. They estimate the extra eastbound lane could halve drive times from Georgetown to Idaho Springs.

CDOT stopped eastbound traffic from entering the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels Sunday afternoon and evening due to heavy traffic backing up into the tunnel. When this occurs, CDOT uses 20-minute traffic stops on the west side, which it calls “metering,” in order to prevent vehicles from standing idle inside the tunnel.

When reconstructing one of Denver’s major business streets, Concrete Works of Colorado has found it helpful to its client — the city and the taxpayer — as well as the merchants along the South Broadway to move in like a colony of ants and get major pieces done in a day. Inside Lane observed one such day.

A lot of drivers think it’s metro Denver’s “Bridge to Nowhere” but it’s really not. CDOT calls the Dayton Street overpass on I-225 a pedestrian bridge, but when it was built in 1976, it was for four-legged pedestrians.

The Colorado Department of Transportation officially launched a new communications tool that will allow users to receive e-mail and text message updates on specific transportation topics and travel conditions.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is giving a $10 million grant to extend U.S. 36 bus-car pool lanes and adding toll-paying solo drivers – far short of the $200 million the state sought but allowing work to proceed incrementally.