BUFFALO — The Wyoming Department of Transportation is working on its latest long-range transportation plan that will guide its road management through 2050.

With inflation driving up costs, the agency’s buying power is diminished, said Brenden Schaefer, a systems planning engineer. So, facing financial challenges, the state’s updated policies and priorities will guide its work moving forward.

In the transportation department’s current long-range transportation plan, updated in 2010 and guiding work through 2035, its strategy is preservation, which means maintaining existing infrastructure. Other options include disinvestment, during which road conditions would deteriorate, or progress and building new infrastructure.

“What (preservation mode) was meaning was we weren’t doing any new con

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