{"id":73804,"date":"2016-08-31T22:58:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/solar-lights-built-into-pavement-on-u-s-160-at-towaoc\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T04:58:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T04:58:24","slug":"solar-lights-built-into-pavement-on-u-s-160-at-towaoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/solar-lights-built-into-pavement-on-u-s-160-at-towaoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar lights built into pavement on U.S. 160 at Towaoc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cMore than 200 solar LED lights were installed and embedded into the pavement of U.S. 160 earlier this summer,\u201d said Rick Routh, CDOT Region 5 traffic &amp; safety engineer.<\/p>\n<p>The lights, used to delineate lanes after dark, enhance the nighttime visibility at three junctions, auxiliary lanes and merging lanes at the casino and Towaoc town entrance. The installed lighting will improve safety for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis stretch of highway can see up to 7,000 vehicles daily,\u201d said Routh. \u201cThe public has already begun providing positive comments on the benefits of the improved delineation at night through this busy corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A steel disk houses the small energy-efficient LED bulb and a solar cell, which collects the sun\u2019s energy during daylight hours. The light bulb illuminates at dusk. The disk is set into the roadway just below the surface of the pavement, which allows traffic and heavy equipment, such as snowplows, to drive over the device.<\/p>\n<p>An initial inspection of the lighted area was recently completed by CDOT traffic and safety personnel. Meanwhile, CDOT maintenance crews will closely monitor the lighting for the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore than 200 solar LED lights were installed and embedded into the pavement of U.S. 160 earlier this summer,\u201d said Rick Routh, CDOT Region 5 traffic &amp; safety engineer. The lights, used to delineate lanes after dark, enhance the nighttime visibility at three junctions, auxiliary lanes and merging lanes at the casino and Towaoc town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,144,1879],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-towaoc","tag-ute-mountain-casino"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73804"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}