Montana Department of Transportation

A safety reminder for all pedestrians and cyclists who use the Madison Street Bridge was issued on Monday by Frontier West, the contractor in charge of the bridge rehabilitation project to watch out for signage to use the lower level.

According to testimony by Montana Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley before the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee, Senate Republican leaders said the MDT and Governor Bullock knew there was a serious budget shortfall ‘before it became a crisis.

Monday morning's commute had a little bit of everything, snow, freezing rain and several slide-offs and crashes, even a snow slide on I-90, according to the Montana Highway Patrol.

During an open house at the Doubletree Hotel on Tuesday, officials from the Montana Department of Transportation and Frontier West Construction answered questions about the construction project to begin Monday to repair the crumbling Madison Street Bridge.

Knife River, in conjunction with the Montana Department of Transportation, will be doing road repairs and construction in the Mullan Road area between Flynn and Frey Roads on May 26 and June 2.

On Tuesday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Montana Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley and other officials gathered to expedite repairs on the Madison Street Bridge.

The Montana Department of Transportation has a bold initiative to reduce Montana traffic fatalities to zero in 2016.

Recent heavy rains led to a rock slide early Tuesday morning that blocked most of Highway 12 West near the Graves Creek Road turnoff.

Earlier this week, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks began investigating the death of a wolf near the Montana-Idaho border. As of Friday afternoon, the investigation ended with no charges filed.

Summer is quickly approaching and the Montana Department of Transportation's initiative called Vision Zero is finally underway.