B-Cycle bike-share program makes Denver a roll model...
Denver is ready to roll out the nation's most comprehensive bike-share program, but first, hundreds of volunteers need to sign up to help launch it.
Earth Day 2010 — April 22 — will be a fitting opening day for Denver's B-cycle. Riders will pay a small fee to access hundreds of bikes at 38 kiosks placed at high-traffic sites near bus stops and light-rail stations in downtown Denver, as well as the Cherry Creek, University of Denver, Capitol Hill and Golden Triangle neighborhoods. More...
UDOT wants public informed about Utah construction projects in works...
PROVO — Drivers who cruise along the notorious S-curve on I-15 in Provo, the one between the University Parkway and Center Street exits that cause most drivers to hit the brakes, will have another reason to slow down this summer: construction.
Crews will be widening and straightening the S-curve as part of the I-15 Core Utah County reconstruction project which will close one traffic lane in each direction on the curve. That will cause some of the most significant delays during the first five months of the 3-year project. More...
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MAY 3, 2010. The 2010 Elections for the ITS Rocky Mountain Chapter closed on April 23rd (mail-in ballots had to be postmarked by this date). The Board of Directors would like to extend a thank you to all members who took the time to vote and return their ballots. The Officers and Board of Directors of the Chapter are as follows:
President – Mark Owens, Meridian Environmental Technology, North Dakota
Immediate Past President – Richard Hodges, Hodges Transportation Consulting, Inc. , Utah
Vice-President – Jim Larsen, Ada CountyHighway District, Idaho
Secretary/Treasurer – Bryan Chamberlain, Utah Department of Transportation, Utah
Idaho State Senator – Robert Koeberlein, Idaho Transportation Department
Idaho State Senator – Benjamin Frevert, Iteris
Montana State Senator – open (no nominations received)
Montana State Senator – open (no nominations received)
Utah State Senator – Brian Christensen, Horrocks Engineers, Inc.
Utah State Senator – Sam Sherman, Iteris
Wyoming State Senator – Keith Trimels, IDT Group
Wyoming State Senator – open (no nominations received)
MARCH 19, 2010. President Obama signed into law the $17.6 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act yesterday, the first in a series of jobs bills planned for 2010 which includes an extension of the surface transportation authorization bill through December 31, 2010. The bill was approved by the U.S. Senate this week in a 68-29 bipartisan vote following passage by the U.S. House earlier this month. The bill also provides for reimbursement of $19.5 billion to the Highway Trust Fund from the General
Fund to account for interest payments that have not been credited to the account since 1998, and restoration of $8.7 billion in contract authority to the states that had been rescinded at the end of fiscal year 2009 as a result of provisions in the SAFETEA-LU authorization bill in 2005. The authorization extension will provide Congress with nine months to work on passing the full six-year surface transportation authorization bill.
