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Thank you for reaching out with your comments regarding the storm drains on WY-220 (Poplar Street) between Collins Drive and Yellowstone. Due to some unforeseen issues at this location, the completion of the storm sewer including the outfall into the river had to be delayed. The completion of the work is scheduled to resume soon with the contractor mobilizing to the site in early October and the work should be completed by the end of November. Thank you for your patience.

The Bill Nye Ave extension you referenced in our STIP is actually a City of Laramie project. WYDOT is involved because the funding used is Federal urban systems dollars that pass through WYDOT to the City. I gather that you may be more curious about a connection of the future 30th street to Bill Nye. I'm unaware of the City's future plans for 30th, they would be the best resource to answer that. For now, I can confirm that there is no connection shown on the plans for Bill Nye. The Bill Nye project schedule is unclear at the moment, the City is working with surrounding landowners to get all the necessary clearances.

We will take a look. Safety and crash history are the first thing we look at when evaluating widened shoulders, and there are other criteria like steep shoulder slopes, bicycle usage, etc. WYDOT has been operating under a Pavement Preservation philosophy for the last ~15 years, so shoulder widenings have been very rare. We will be sure to evaluate the need.

You're spot on. There's a lot of commuter traffic and the volumes are quite high for a service road. Our warrant studies identified left turn lanes were needed at the Bar S Trucking approach and at CR 136, and these are currently included on the project. No right turn lanes were identified that I recall. This project has unfortunately been delayed several times as we have had to prioritize our interstate projects, etc. Since it's been a while, we'll be sure to update the counts and warrant studies to make sure we have the right locations for turn lanes. There's been a lot of growth in this area and it seems that trend will only continue.

This is a huge project for sure, and I agree the list of needs on the rest of our highways only continues to grow. We do feel this interchange replacement is a need and replacing it will have real, lasting benefits. We're also aware it can't come at the expense of the rest of our system. So far we've funded the vast majority of the design with grants that are separate from our "normal" highway funding program. I anticipate the construction funding will be a similar situation whenever that day comes. It's an issue we're evaluating carefully, all the way up to WYDOT's senior leadership. The need for this interchange has been studied for a long time. The justifications are both safety and capacity related, and have mostly to do with the tight cloverleaf ramp configuration of the existing interchange and the close proximity of the smaller service interchanges nearby. There's a lot going on in a very small area, and the problems we see will continue to worsen. The existing bridge

We do have a 5-lane designed and ready to go. Originally, our 2024 US 30 project went from Pershing to Archer and would have included this segment. Unfortunately we had to split the project in two due to cost. The traffic volumes on this second segment are quite a bit less than the first piece. By the numbers, we're not over capacity yet and may not be for quite a while. I anticipate this project will be on standby until we can secure funding for capacity improvement projects. We did look at intersection lighting and will update that as traffic volumes increase. Similar to signals, we have warrant criteria we stick to to justify these installations. Lighting is a big safety benefit for rural intersections, so we'll be sure to keep evaluating it.

Delays for these two movements are high during peak periods, I agree. We have looked at both situations, a new signal at the westbound off ramp and a left turn phase for southbound College to eastbound I-80. Based on our most recent counts, both of these movements are still short of the traffic volumes needed to satisfy our minimum warrant criteria. We will definitely keep an eye on the delays and update our counts to see where we are. Closely spaced traffic signals create their own set of problems, and that's why we're careful to hold off until warrants are met before making changes. Especially in this location. Thru traffic volumes on this segment of College Drive are some of the highest in the State. We'll watch it closely. We are adding a dual left turn lane off the I-80 eastbound ramp to NB College on this project to eliminate the ramp backing up onto I-80. This may allow us to allocate some additional signal time to the other movements which might help some.