Transportation

Transportation officials in Colorado and Wyoming are collaborating on a mass transit feasibility study as they consider adding a new bus route between Cheyenne, Wyo., and the northern Front Range in Colorado.

Colorado's stolen car rate – about 661 thefts per 100,000 people – was the nation’s highest in 2021, and it marked a 32% increase over 2020, according to new National Insurance Crime Bureau data.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg talked at the Western Governors Association meeting in Idaho this week. He says transportation innovation is especially important in our large, spread-out states. That includes continued efforts to build electric vehicle charging corridors.

A new study on pedestrian safety shows that some cities in the Mountain West rank among the most dangerous in the country.

Shares of Spirit Airlines rose Thursday after it postponed a vote for the second time on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines, allowing for a bidding war over the budget airline between Frontier and JetBlue Airways to play out.

All Aboard Northwest is advocating for the return of passenger rail service to states in the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, and Midwest that are under or unserved by Amtrak or other passenger rail operators. Many Wyoming communities have not had passenger service for over 50 years.

Northern Colorado schools are seeing a noticeable absence of school bus drivers, and this industry is only the latest casualty of the ongoing worker shortage.

SB21-238, which Gov. Jared Polis signed Wednesday, establishes the Front Range Passenger Rail District, an independent entity with the herculean task of “planning, designing, developing, financing, constructing, operating and maintaining” a passenger rail system through the region.

The “Mile High Shift” is now underway. That’s what the Colorado Department of Transportation has dubbed the massive infrastructure project that will divert traffic off of the old, crumbling sections of I-70 in northeast Denver to a new, underground highway that’s been under construction for years. It’s a significant moment for Colorado’s infrastructure future. But it’s also an interesting moment for the state’s infrastructure past.

When the dust settles on the massive I-25 expansion underway in Northern Colorado in 2023, a new kind of regional transit option will take center stage: bus stops in the middle of the highway.