Civil engineers give Colorado a C-minus grade on infrastructure report card, with roads and schools receiving low marks

Swift Communications ^ | 7/25/2025 | Ryan Spencer

[dynachrome]

C-? Grade inflation.

[george76]

2018, Jared Polis appointed 35-year-old Shoshana Lew as his CDOT Director, a history major .. She replaced Michael Lewis, an engineer with extensive construction management experience..

Shoshana’s primary qualification = her close relationship to Big Mike who called for a favor - find a job for Shoshana ..

She likes bike lanes, buses, trains to nowhere, electric cars and ..

[george76]

Polis, his vegan husband, and pals hate family farmers, ranchers.. using Canadian imported wolf packs to kill them off..

Closing environmentally superior, reliable power plants that run 24/7 - paid by the rate payers.. = Hello Zimbabwe .

[MileHi]

Yes

I would like to see how a real, honest, election would go in Colorado

[MtnClimber]

So an ultra DEI hire...

[Da Coyote]

The “Democrat Disease”, commonly known as rot, is slowly consuming what was once a great state. The beauty is still there (as long as one avoids Denver), but the rot and accompanying stench is in our future. Perhaps we’ll manage to ditch fat boy governor, get a B2 to take care of Boulder and Aspen and we’ll be on the way to getting back to the 20th century.

[T.B. Yoits]

Civil Engineers report “everything sucks give us hundreds of billions in funding so we can fix it”

This.

[pepsionice]

Back around 1999...I made a 5-day drive through the state (avoiding the interstate highways). I’ll just say that as crappy as roads are in Tenn or Ala....same situation in Colorado, and I doubt if anything changed over the past 25 years.