Roadgeeks like to name things.

Today we’re going to try to hang a name on something.

I’m proposing that we give a household name to the interchange in the Denver Tech Center where Interstate 225 dumps into Interstate 25. I say we call it the Full House. That’s the name that fellow roadgeek Duncan Shaw, a news producer at CBS4 Denver, proposed for it in 2001.

Read more to see why…

The concept of commuter rail service from Fort Collins to Denver might be a popular idea but it could be more than six decades in the making, the Fort Collins Coloradoan reports.

A draft plan aimed at improving mobility along the North Front Range and Interstate 25 corridor in the years to come calls for about $2.6 billion in transportation projects, including establishing commuter rail and bus service and widening the interstate.

The improvements would be built in systematic phases, depending on the availability of funding, officials say.

But that could mean bus service from Greeley to Denver envisioned by the plan wouldn’t be a reality until 2035, and rail service from Fort Collins to Denver wouldn’t happen until 2075.

Go to the Coloradoan to see the entire article.

Dozens of drivers crashed this weekend in Colorado Springs on an icy I-25 overpass with a built-in road de-icer. I-25 at South Nevada/Tejon has an automatic de-icing system meant to stay ahead of winter weather. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation that system failed Saturday morning, when a major pileup closed the interstate, reports KRDO Channel 13 News.

“The system showed that it had discharged 10 times starting fairly early in the morning,” said CDOT Highway Maintenance Supervisor Gary Heller. “The sensor evaluates the roadway temperature, whether there’s moisture on it and then whether we’re starting to lose friction on the road because of ice. It will continue to fire until it no longer senses the loss of friction on there.”

While the computer system thought the 1,000-foot bridge was being de-iced, one of the 34 de-icer nozzle valves remained open, keeping the other valves from putting out magnesium chloride.

“The computer thought it was doing what it was supposed to be doing.”

Go to KRDO.com Channel 13 News for the entire article.

Local governments are competing with projects across the country, hoping to get a piece of a $1.5 billion pot to rebuild the .

Fort Collins, Windsor and the Colorado Department of Transportation together applied for $27 million to widen the CO 392 bridge over Interstate 25, add turn lanes, bike lanes and sidewalks, and realign the frontage road, the Loveland Reporter-Herald reports.

“It’s a very competitive grant,” said Rick Richter, Fort Collins engineering and capital projects manager.

Each state is capped at $300 million, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is a party to seven such applications, including the one for the Windsor interchange. If the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant is approved, work likely would begin next summer.

Got to the Loveland Reporter-Herald for the entire article.

Ground will be broken Thursday for one phase of interchange improvements at Interstate 25 and Crossroads Boulevard in Loveland, according to a story in the Fort Collins Coloradoan. The $6.9 million job is funded in part with $3 million in federal stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It widens the access ramps and replaces stop signs at the exit ramps and Crossroads with roundabouts.

Edward Kraemer and Sons has been chosen as the contractor for the Woodmen Road widening project, which will widen Woodmen to three lanes in each direction from east of Interstate 25 to Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs. The project also will include an interchange at Woodmen and Academy, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.