Wyoming OKs $38M for I-80 facelifts, a new bridge, and miles of crack sealing

Wyoming’s Transportation Commission signed off on seven road and bridge contracts worth about $38 million, a mostly federally funded push to smooth pavement and boost safety in Carbon, Uinta, Weston, Sublette, Sweetwater, Albany, Laramie, and Hot Springs counties, with wrap-ups running from 2026 to 2027, Construction Equipment Guide reports.

The headline jobs are on I-80: JTL Group won roughly $15.4 million to mill and overlay 11.9 miles of the eastbound lane between Rawlins and Creston Junction in Carbon County, due October 31, 2026, while Montana’s Riverside Contracting will handle an $8.5 million overlay and wearing course on 6.3 miles just west of Lyman in both directions, also due October 31, 2026.

In Weston County, Cheyenne-based Reiman Corp. will replace a bridge on County Road 1A under a $4.9 million contract that runs to November 30, 2026, and the same firm picked up a conditional $500,000 structure-removal job on County Road 210 near Cheyenne, slated to finish June 30, 2026.

Maintenance gets a statewide push too: South Dakota’s Highway Improvement Inc. will crack-seal 52 miles on WY-28 across Sublette and Sweetwater for about $765,000 through May 31, 2026, and another 89 miles at various sites in Albany, Carbon, and Laramie for about $700,000 through April 30, 2026.

The one primarily state-funded outlier lands in Hot Springs County, where Sundance-based Croell Inc. will handle $7.2 million of mill, overlay, reconstruction, and chip seal on five miles of WY-120 and WY-170 beginning at milepost 4.21 between Thermopolis and Meeteetse, with completion set for June 30, 2027.