Denver Area Transportation Issues and the Future of Transit Development in the Denver Metro Area Sertoma Club January 12, 2012

What does CDOT do? Plans, designs, builds, and maintains Interstate highways and state highways within the state of Colorado Assists Local Agencies with local transportation projects that use Federal money Coordinates with Regional Transportation District (RTD) for mutual improvements

What does CDOT not do? Plan, design, build, or maintain local roads that do not use Federal money – the respective Local Agencies do that

CDOT Organization Split into six engineering Regions, based on geographic boundaries Denver metro area is in Region 6

Region 6 Accomplishments in 2011 Working on around 254 active environmental, design and construction projects Plowed more than 550,000 lane-miles of roadway Placed about 224,000 tons of asphalt (equivalent to 386 lane miles at 1-1/2”) Placed about 195,000 square yards of concrete pavement (equiv to 28 lane-miles)

2011 Accomplishments, cont’d Repaired 617,000 linear feet of fence, railing & barriers Cleaned 7,842 roadway drains Maintained 27,000 linear feet of ditches/streams Swept over 11,000 miles of roadway Picked up 54,000 cubic yards of trash Installed 80,000 linear feet of median Etc.

Specific Major Projects – opened to traffic in 2011 Parker/Arapahoe Road interchange 285 Reconstruction, Kipling to Knox Court 470/Santa Fe interchange (SB 85 to EB C470) I70/Central Park Boulevard interchange I225, Mississippi to 2nd

On-going projects 46 of Colorado’s 128 “poor” bridges are within Region 6 – I25/Bronco Arch – Federal over Colfax – 6 th Avenue over Sheridan – Wadsworth over Bear Creek – I70/Sand Creek – US 6, 3 bridges near I25 – I25/Santa Fe – I76/Peoria – Arapahoe over Cherry Ck – Havana over Cherry Ck – I76 over S Platte River – I25 and 84th – Many more

On-going projects, cont’d I70 East Environmental process SH 93 Shoulder widening Federal Blvd, Alameda to 5th I225 reconstruction, Parker to Mississippi Southbound I25 Interim Alameda over I25 Overlays Traffic signals I25 PEL SH7 PEL

How does CDOT get funding? Federal gas tax (flat rate of 18.4 cents per gallon) – some of which gets returned to each state State gas tax (flat rate of 22 cents per gallon) - not adjusted for inflation, not a percentage like sales tax, not changed since January, 1991 Vehicle registration fees – raised a couple of years back to help pay for the “poor” bridges, and safety & transit improvements

Transit Close coordination between CDOT and Regional Transportation District (RTD) Fastracks Light Rail – West Corridor, downtown to Golden – Gold Line to Arvada – I225 Transit Grants If this group is interested in more specific transit updates, I can put you in touch with someone

Questions? Randy Furst Region 6 Central Program Engineer Thank you!!