Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)

Among the programs set to lose funding in Colorado is one that focuses on HIV prevention and treatment. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Jennifer Brown and then read the entire article at the link below.

Data reviewed by the Children's Hospital Colorado linked dangerous intersections to kids in more disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The world’s largest wildlife overpass is being built over a section of I-25 between Denver and Colorado Springs. It’s a stretch of highway that averages one vehicle crash involving wildlife every day. Hear how wildlife overpasses save animals and reduce crashes – and why this one needed to be so large.

Driving through the mountains on I-70 can be difficult for anyone – but for drivers behind the wheel of a giant semi, one mistake can have devastating impacts. We talk with the owners of a trucking school in Colorado that that teaches commercial truck drivers how to safely navigate mountain highways.

The Steamboat Springs City Council signaled support for moving forward with the Yampa Valley Regional Transportation Authority, giving a majority thumbs-up to a three-year, $1-million-a-year funding pledge from Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Steamboat Pilot reporter Julia Coccaro and then read the full article at the link below.

The world’s largest wildlife overpass is being built over a section of I-25 between Denver and Colorado Springs, just north of Monument. It’s a stretch of highway that averages one vehicle crash involving wildlife every day.

Driving through the mountains on I-70 can be difficult for anyone – but for drivers behind the wheel of a giant semi, one mistake can have devastating impacts. Today on In The NoCo, we talk with the owners of a trucking school in Colorado that offers the only specialized mountain safety program for truck drivers in the country.

Fatal traffic accidents involving pedestrians are increasing statewide – and they’ve more than doubled over the past decade. But it hasn't happened everywhere. The city of Boulder saw zero fatal crashes involving a pedestrian in seven of the past 11 years. Today on In The NoCo, we look at what’s working in Boulder, and how leaders in other cities might get similar results.

Equipped with hundreds of screens and cameras that can zoom in on the roadway up to 2 miles away, the Colorado Department of Transportation's new facility on I-70 aims to increase response times and shorten closures.

Every day in Colorado, we bike, drive or walk on streets that were designed using outdated research and bad assumptions. That’s the premise of the provocative book “Killed by a Traffic Engineer.” Author Wesley Marshall, who teaches at CU Denver, discusses how we should think differently about traffic safety in the third installment of In The NoCo’s Holiday Book Club.