Transportation Commission awards $12.4 million in contracts

The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded contracts totaling $12.4 million for seven projects, including three that will be funded through increased fuel tax revenue, during its March meeting. The work the Wyoming Department of Transportation will complete in various parts of the state includes minor bridge rehabilitation, road grading and overlay and slide stabilization. S & S Builders of Gillette...

70 mph speed limit coming to more Wyoming highways

Signs are being manufactured and crews could be out on rural two-lane highways before the end of the month posting 70 mph speed limit signs. Gov. Matt Mead signed into law Tuesday a bill raising the statutory speed limit to 70 mph for non-interstate highways in Wyoming. WYDOT expects to have about 1,500 miles of highways raised to the 70 mph limit by the end of April, and another 1,000 miles by the...

25 projects completed with additional fuel tax revenue, 21 underway or under contract

  Twenty-five pavement preservation projects have been completed using the additional fuel tax revenue WYDOT received during the past two years, and work is either underway or under contract on 21 more projects. Work is expected to begin on 14 10-cent fuel tax projects in fiscal 2016, and 17 more in 2017. The 25 projects already completed with the additional revenue were pavement preservation projects...

Aeronautics Commission schedules March 15 teleconference

The Wyoming Aeronautics Commission will conduct a teleconference meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. on March 15. To be included in the teleconference, or for more information about the meeting agenda, the commission or its schedule, please contact the commission secretary at (307) 777-3952. The commission approves grants and loans of state and federal money for airport construction, maintenance, improvements,...

Transportation Commission awards $12.4 million in contracts

Contracts totaling $12.4 million for 11 projects around the state, including two to be funded through increased fuel tax revenue, were awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission during its February meeting in Cheyenne. Mountain View Building of Sheridan submitted the low bid of $2.89 million to rebuild about a mile of West Fifth Street (WYO 330) in Sheridan, from Mydland Road west to the end...