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MORE CDOT PROBLEMS
(first posted by CDOT on 10/22/2026)

Many Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) road cameras are down due to an unexpected, widespread system outage impacting live video feeds and photos. State transportation officials issued an alert acknowledging that an unknown technical issue took the majority of traffic feeds offline across the entire state. (CDOT still, as of Oct 25, has not provided an exact date or timeline for when the statewide highway cameras will be back online!)

The Sudden System Blackout (October 21–27)

On Wednesday evening, October 21, CDOT suffered a major backend issue that knocked out live video feeds and photo updates across both the COtrip Website and the COTrip mobile application.

The Cause: CDOT officials stated they are actively working on a fix but have not yet disclosed the exact root cause of the network failure.
Current Status: While a small scattering of regional cameras have managed to stay online, major thoroughfares—especially those heavily trafficked in the Denver market and the mountain corridors—remain dark.

!Bring back the live road cams on Poncha Pass!
(Please sign our petition Today, thanks!)

A special statement from CDOT on the removal of yet another 136 of their cams
(posted by Keno on 10/1/2025)

I've been complaining to you (and you to me) about CDOT removing some of our Colorado WebCam's site's favorite webcams. Well for the latest removals at least, they have finally made a statement, thanks in part to many of our users calling them and complaining to them for these actions. So I thank all of you for letting them know how unhappy they are making things for us users and please don't let up on the calls!

Now, they will be replacing less than half of the cam that they removed in July, only, yet they noted nothing at all about all the cams they removed in the last 2 years. Plus this is gonna take a long time for them to fix! After reading their statement on this, perhaps they never should have fired the third party that used to maintain the cams they removed? Or at least, waited first to replace them with their own cams? Guess it doesn't matter since they are going to do things their own way in the end, but at least they are now listening to us and they did release a partial statement, which is better than nothing at all (and not something they have ever done or addressed to the public before on this matter). So, here is that statement:

Camera Alert | Liveview camera removal and service changes
(from CDOT)

Missing a favorite camera view? On July 20, 2025, 136 vendor managed cameras were removed from CDOT. You may notice a gap in coverage while CDOT is actively investing in permanent, reliable camera infrastructure to better serve travelers. Our goal is to minimize the gap in coverage and restore camera visibility as quickly as possible, starting with high-priority areas. A project is underway to install about 66 new CDOT cameras at prioritized locations and camera upgrades are expected to continue through October 2027.

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