With the I-70 Coalition in a holding pattern until highway improvement plans are finalized, director Flo Raitano has decided to move on at the end of the year when her contract with the transportation advocacy group ends, the Summit Daily News reports.

The group has already started the search for someone to replace Raitano.

“I’m not one to sit around and twiddle my thumbs,” Raitano said, explaining her decision. “This is one of the times when I feel like I accomplished what I set out to do.” She added that it was “time for a change on both sides.”

The I-70 coalition consists of towns along the I-70 corridor, as well as communities farther from the highway but still affected by what happens on I-70. Private companies, including the major ski resorts’ transportation companies, are also members.

Read the entire article at the Summit Daily News.

Update on the I-70 Coalition’s activities from Michael Penny, chair.

You can see some of the Federal stimulus dollars at work on Highway 9, I-70, and the Summit County Maintenance shop, but what else is happening on I-70? Well, the I-70 Coalition and our members have been continuing to stay busy over the last several months. Much of the early part of the year was spent working on legislation to ensure an ongoing and stable funding source for transportation financing. A reliable statewide funding stream is necessary for anything to happen on I-70.