The latest episode on the Transportation TV series entitled State DOTs Respond to Coronavirus: A Video Diary highlights work by the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Division of Aeronautics to help volunteer aviators who are donating their time and aircraft to transport critical medical supplies to rural hospitals.
Groups such as the Civil Air Patrol and Angel Flight have partnered with the Colorado DOT to deliver surgical masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline medical workers, as well as transporting lifesaving ventilators to patients who need them.
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September 25, 1967: Construction Begins on an Interstate Highway in California
In Southern California, a groundbreaking ceremony was held at El Cajon Boulevard and Boundary Street in San Diego for Interstate 805 (I-805). Planning for that route dated back to 1956, the same year in which the Interstate Highway System itself first came into existence.
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