2014 releases

October 20 2014

LED retrofit expected to save $690,000 a year in energy costs for lighting

Work has been completed in the Casper area and is underway in the Cheyenne area on a statewide project to convert all of WYDOT’s roadway lighting to LED, an upgrade expected to save the department about $690,000 a year in energy costs. When completed next summer, the project will make Wyoming the first state in the nation to have all its highway lighting upgraded to LED. The upgrades being completed...

October 16 2014

Website to be unavailable Saturday

WYDOT’s website will be unavailable Saturday morning due to a scheduled power shutdown at the facility that houses all of the state of Wyoming’s servers and network equipment. WYDOT’s 511 Travel Information Service website is not expected to be affected by the outage, which is scheduled to begin at 3 a.m. on Oct. 18 and last until noon. The outage is necessary to complete an upgrade of the power capacity...

October 10 2014

Aeronautics Commission teleconference scheduled Oct. 21

The Wyoming Aeronautics Commission will conduct a teleconference meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Oct 21. For information about the meeting agenda or to be included in the teleconference, please contact Aeronautics Commission Secretary Katie Pfister at (307) 777-3952. The commission, made up of seven members appointed by the governor for six-year terms, approves grants of state and federal money for...

October 9 2014

Survey seeks input for Statewide Freight Plan

WYDOT is seeking public input to assist in the development of a Statewide Freight Plan (SFP). Interested members of the public are encouraged to take a short online survey at www.SurveyMonkey.com/s/WYDOT_SFP to help the department implement a broad approach to statewide planning that will integrate freight elements into the larger Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan. Public input is necessary...

September 26 2014

Transportation Commission schedules special teleconference meeting

The Wyoming Transportation Commission will conduct a special teleconference meeting beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 to consider a report from the WYDOT Aeronautics Division. The teleconference will be based in the Commission Room at WYDOT Headquarters, 5300 Bishop Boulevard, in Cheyenne. The public can attend the meeting there, or arrange to be included in the teleconference by calling (307) 777-4007....