With predictions for less funding, the Wyoming Department of Transportation will switch its focus in the next several years from transportation improvement to pavement preservation.
“Essentially, we don’t have the ability to keep the pavements from deteriorating, so we are going to work into a system where we’ll try to optimize the dollars to keep the pavements in as good a condition as we can,” Jay Gould, district engineer with WYDOT District 1 (Albany, Carbon and Laramie Counties), said at a meeting with local city and county officials Tuesday (21 June 2011).