Transportation

Big game herds can travel hundreds of miles between their summer and winter ranges. That means they often cross neighborhoods, highways and fences – hazards that could increase as the Mountain West faces further development pressures.

Federal officials say their investigation into a Colorado coal train derailment that killed a truck driver and shut down a major highway is focused on whether inspection and maintenance practices at BNSF Railway contributed to the accident.

Interstate 25 in southern Colorado is expected to reopen Thursday, four days after the main north-south route through the state was shut down when a train derailment collapsed a railroad bridge onto the highway and killed a truck driver.

The steel bridge built in 1958 collapsed Sunday when 30 cars from a BNSF train hauling coal derailed while crossing over Interstate 25 north of Pueblo. The 60-year-old driver of a semitrailer truck that was passing beneath the bridge was killed.

Eight Colorado communities will receive free e-bikes. Fort Morgan is hopeful the bikes can benefit its low-income residents.

Colorado will pay up to $6,000 to residents who exchange their old, gas-powered cars for electric vehicles. Applications for the new program open this week.

Sunday's event at the Denver Art Museum is part of the opening of a new exhibit featuring the artistic and cultural significance of lowriders, skateboards and other stylized modes of transportation in the American Southwest.

The latest round of Denver's e-bike rebates opened this past week. All rebates were claimed in under 5 minutes. The program has tapped into big demand for alternative forms of transportation.

State and federal officials are increasingly looking to reduce costly animal-vehicle accidents. They want to invest in more wildlife crossings on highways to limit collisions.

Policymakers in Colorado envision a future with close to a million electric cars on the road by 2030. But before all those electric cars can hit the roadways, we’ll need a way to charge them. That includes in rural areas, not typically electric vehicle hotbeds.