Kevin Flynn's Inside Lane

Inside Lane pulls over, parks with final post on Colorado’s transportation needs

Kevin Flynn's Inside Lane is going into inactive status with this final post. While the archives will remain online during discussions for a new owner, Kevin is moving into a new position at the Regional Transportation District to work on the public information team for the FasTracks' Eagle P3 project -- the commuter rail lines to Denver International Airport, Arvada-Wheat Ridge and south Westminster. Thank you very much for your readership and support. Click here to read the final post.

Denver Transit Construction Group: Details of FasTracks West Corridor steel-arch bridge roll-out over Sixth Avenue

The RTD FasTracks West Corridor team will roll out the main span of a double-track light rail bridge across 6th Avenue just east of Simms/Union the weekend of April 23rd through April 25th. All lanes of 6th Avenue between Simms/Union and Kipling Street will close at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 23rd to prepare the area for the roll-out, scheduled to begin early Saturday morning. 6th Avenue and the frontage road will re-open by 5:30 a.m. Monday, April 26th.

CDOT: Planned highway lane closures for next week’s construction and maintenance

Click here to see CDOT’s planned lane closures in the Denver Metro area. Click here to see CDOT’s planned lane closures in northeast Colorado. Click here to see CDOT’s planned lane closures in southeast Colorado. Click here to see CDOT’s planned lane closures in western Colorado.

AASHTO: Urban Land Institute report suggests replacing gas tax with VMT tax to catch up on infrastructure

Congress should consider initiating a vehicle miles traveled fee to replace the gasoline tax currently funding federal highway and transit programs, an infrastructure report issued by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young recommends. The report also calls for boosting transportation investment through other sources. This report is the fourth in an annual series. It focuses on the pressing need for long-term and integrated investments in transportation and other infrastructure.

CDOT: Bridge demoliton at 104th Avenue requires several I-25 closures and restrictions

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) recently completed the center portion of the new 104th Avenue bridge over I-25. With two thirds of the new bridge complete, crews will be realigning eastbound 104th Avenue onto the new bridge this week and demolishing the final third of the existing bridge. As a result of the upcoming bridge demolition, there will be various lane closures on 104th Avenue as well as I-25 next week.

CDOT: C-470 concrete repairs done, focus now shifts to asphalt resurfacing

Crews have completed all of the concrete repairs on eastbound and westbound C-470 between I-25 and Santa Fe Drive and asphalt resurfacing is just beginning. Since temperatures are not yet warm enough for paving during the overnight hours, crews will continue to work on weekends. “With the concrete work complete, we will micro-surface C-470, which seals the concrete and levels the pavement,” said CDOT Project Engineer Doug Liane. “Once that work is complete, we will resurface both directions of C-470 in asphalt for a smooth driving surface.”

DC Streetsblog: Nevada taking a crack at studying transition from gas-tax funding to Vehicle Miles Traveled tax

DC Streetsblog reports that Nevada's state DOT is in the early stages of a years-long study aimed at mapping a possible transition from the gas tax to a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee, a shift urged last year by a congressionally chartered panel on infrastructure financing and encouraged by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). But after the first of the state's two public hearings on the study, the very idea of evaluating an eventual VMT tax is proving to be polarizing and politically risky.

Last Dance? Denver considers eliminating downtown’s all-walk “Barnes Dance”

Save the last dance for me! Denver, the city that popularized the pedestrian-friendly all-walk diagonal-crossing Barnes Dance, is considering phasing it out of the busy downtown grid as part of a larger evaluation of signal timing within the central business district.

AASHTO: Transportation TV Week in Review

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials presents a weekly review of major transportation infrastructure events. Watch it here:

WCAX TV: Colorado’s Flatiron Construction is apparent low bidder to build replacement Lake Champlain bridge

WCAX TV in Burlington, Vt., reports that Flatiron Construction of Lafayette is the apparent low bidder to build the new Crown Point bridge across an arm of Lake Champlain to connect New York and Vermont. The old bridge was brought down by controlled demolition in December after inspectors closed it due to its condition becoming unsafe. Flatiron’s bid was around $69 million. There were nine bidders on the project, none from Vermont. Vermont Department of Transportation officials stressed this was an apparent low bidder but Flatiron will not be awarded the contract until the bid is fully vetted.