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Roadbuilding

FHWA awards grants to 7 states to test mileage-based user fee collection methods

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded $14.2 million in federal grants to seven states—California, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, and Washington—to figure out how best to charge drivers for miles driven rather than gasoline consumed, Bloomberg BNA reports. The grants were made possible by the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives program, part of the Fixing America’s […]

September 9, 2016

Workforce

Worker loses his mind, fires nail gun, slashes tires in jobsite altercation with co-worker

A confrontation between two construction workers on a Hawaii jobsite last month proves that not everything on the Big Island is chill. According to a recent press release from the Hawaii Police Department, 23-year-old Cody Lewis Allen and a co-worker got into an altercation while at work in Kailua-Kona the morning of Nov. 2. The disagreement quickly […]

December 18, 2015

Roadbuilding

2015 Better Roads Bridge Inventory: Ohio the bridge poster child; D.C. still has most SD/FO spans

No surprise: the top challenge facing state DOTs in improving structurally deficient (SD) and functionally obsolete (FO) bridges is funding, according to our 2015 Better Roads Bridge Inventory. And while maintenance was second on the list of challenges, this year staffing also mentioned as a top-level concern. The national average for percentage of SD/FO bridges […]

November 17, 2015

Roadbuilding

Montana tops list of 10 deadliest states for motorists

Forbes has a new list out of the top 10 deadliest states in America for drivers, and Montana’s 80 mph speed limits and rural roads pushed it to the top spot. Washington, D.C., was named the safest place to drive. The Forbes list is based on a study from the University of Michigan Transportation Research […]

October 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

Road worker injured while placing cones on highway in Hawaii

A road worker in Oahu, Hawaii, was injured last week after he fell while placing orange safety cones along a highway. According to Hawaii News Now, the road worker was seriously injured September 4 at about 5:40 a.m. when he fell from a road crew truck that had been contracted to do work on Kalanianaole Highway. The […]

September 10, 2015

Roadbuilding

Hawaii DOT sues consultant over fraud, breach of contract on highway software upgrade

The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) has filed a lawsuit against software consultant Ciber Inc. accusing the company of defrauding the state and “other misconduct” while replacing the Highway Division’s computer system. HDOT seeks to reclaim $8 million in fees and “tens of millions” in damages. The project was known as FAST and started in […]

September 9, 2015

Roadbuilding

More states ban ET-Plus guardrail system

The list of state department of transportations to have removed the controversial guardrail end-terminal model (ET-Plus) from its approved highway-products list continues to grow. Ten states (and counting)  have now removed the model, including Vermont, Hawaii, Colorado, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon and Virginia. The ET-Plus model has a steel fixture that is meant […]

October 24, 2014

Roadbuilding

PHOTOS: Most gorgeous freeway ever?

[imagebrowser id=15]   The above pictures are of the beautiful John A. Burns Freeway, also known as Interstate H-3 located on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii. It connects two military bases, the Marine Corps Base on Mokapu Peninsula, and iconic Pearl Harbor and its surrounding tourist attractions like the USS Arizona/Pearl Harbor Memorial in Pu’uloa. Orders for the freeway were […]

October 12, 2014

Roadbuilding

Hawaii DOT to pay over $1 million for stormwater violations

The Hawaii Department of Transportation will pay a $1.2 million penalty for federal Clean Water Act stormwater violations at the Honolulu and Kalaeloa harbors on Oahu. This comes after an inspection in 2008 found trash and chemicals on HDOT land could enter the water through runoff. The $1.2 million in penalties will be divided equally between […]

September 18, 2014

Roadbuilding

11 States with the Highest Texting-While-Driving Fines

Most drivers probably know by now that it’s not a great idea to text while driving. But that isn’t stopping all drivers from from using phones behind the wheel. Each day, about 660,000 drivers in the U.S. use a phone or other electronic device while driving, Mother Jones reports. The report also notes that 385 […]

October 28, 2013

Roadbuilding

Weirdest U.S. Driving Laws

Don’t run red lights or stop signs. Stay on your side if there are double lines. These are all laws we know and hopefully abide by – but what about these crazy rules? Many states have outlawed texting while driving. But California has taken it a step further and made touching your map app while […]

September 2, 2013

Roadbuilding

Craziest Roads in the World

I’m sure you’ve worked on your share of difficult projects, but I doubt any of them can compare to the roads in this video. [youtube JNde2A3jiYY nolink] With two in the United States, the video shows roads that should be reserved for daredevils and stunt crews. They aren’t just steep – some of them even […]

August 21, 2013