Wyoming 511
The Wyoming Department of Transportation is removing eight of its Twitter accounts after the social media platform recently announced changes to its application programming interface platform. Keeping the accounts would mean unnecessary costs for W.Y.D.O.T. and potentially deprive Wyomingites of vital information. The A.P.I. platform allowed W.Y.D.O.T. to send automated tweets straight from the agency’s…
February is determined to make up for lost time this winter, as the entire Bighorn Basin can expect another several inches of snow and freezing temperatures. As if last week’s winter storm wasn’t enough, the National Weather Service Office in Riverton issued another Winter Storm Warning for the Bighorn Basin. The warning is in anticipation…
W.Y.D.O.T.’s website was getting great traffic last year as people repeatedly checked the state’s go-to road information resource for closures and road conditions. The Wyoming Department of Transportation’s 511 travel website registered about 2.2 billion site visits in 2022. “This is by far the most hits in a calendar year since the department started tracking…
Winter returns to the Bighorn Basin with a vengeance, as the National Weather Service calls for snow, subzero temperatures, and a guarantee of road impacts. The Bighorn Basin is under a Winter Weather Advisory for periods of snowfall. The advisory is in effect until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 21. Riverton’s National Weather Service Office…
Alexa can now give Wyomingites a traffic report, as the voice in the box can now share the most up-to-date W.Y.D.O.T. info on road conditions and closures. Winter is finally bringing snow and severe cold to Wyoming. Unfortunately, such weather can easily make Wyoming’s highways treacherous and icy. Despite a lack of people driving the…
The impact of this week’s intense winter weather is enormous – major Wyoming highways were closed, communities isolated, and tourists unable to travel. Wyoming was hammered by unseasonably snowy weather earlier this week. And, based on W.Y.D.O.T.’s Travel Information Map, it shut down a significant portion of Wyoming on Tuesday and well into Wednesday. The…
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