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Joint committee narrows WYDOT interim work to highway funding, safety and department updates
Summary
The Joint Transportation Committee agreed to focus interim work on highway funding, highway safety and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) updates, after WYDOT outlined preservation needs, staffing and project-priority challenges and stakeholders raised issues ranging from permanent trailer registration to commercial air service.
At a meeting of the Joint Transportation Committee, members narrowed their interim priorities for the Wyoming Department of Transportation to three broad topics: highway funding, highway safety and WYDOT updates, the committee co-chairs said.
WYDOT Director Darren Westby told the committee the department is focused on preserving the state highway system and that funding remains the central problem. "After the passage of House Bill 33 ... funding our roads and infrastructure wasn't a very important topic," Westby said, arguing the legislature and WYDOT must continue working toward a more sustainable, long-term funding source.
The director described recent volatility in WYDOT’s multi-year program (the STIP): the agency cut about $70,000,000 of projects during an inflation spike and has recently lost roughly $30,000,000 in federal funding, which pushed previously planned projects back on the timeline. "We are in preservation-only mode," he said, and any additional capacity or expansion projects would need one-time or…
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