The Colorado Senate voted this week to confirm Shoshana Lew as executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).
Lew previously served as U.S. Department of Transportation chief financial officer and assistant secretary for budget and programs and Rhode Island Department of Transportation chief operating officer. She also served during the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the White House Office of Management and Budget and Domestic Policy Council.
“We all rely on our transportation system for virtually every aspect of daily life — and issues like access to good schools, health care options, and multimodal transportation options — some of Gov. Polis and this Administration’s key priorities — are deeply interconnected,” Lew said. “Through all of it, we must work relentlessly to improve the safety of our system for the people of Colorado.”
Gov. Jared Polis appointed Lew Dec. 21.
Polis recently tasked CDOT with building the state’s intermodal mobility options.
Colorado must work to reduce traffic while managing the current infrastructure and must work toward a more sustainable source of funding to keep infrastructure sustainable and safe, Polis said.
Headquartered in Denver, CDOT manages more than 23,000 lane miles of highway and 3,429 bridges. It has approximately 3,000 employees statewide.