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U.S. awards more help for Puerto Rico’s hurricane-hit roads and bridges
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has announced the immediate availability of $30 million in “quick release” Emergency Relief funds to further roads and bridges throughout Puerto Rico. Another $6 million has been awarded for road repairs throughout the U.S. Virgin Islands. These funds supplement $42.5 in emergency funds previously made available to […]
December 6, 2017
Safety
Texas DOT launches new tools for warning drivers about road construction zones
The Texas Department of Transportation has launched two new tools to warn drivers approaching road construction zones to slow down along with a new traffic signal to improve safety during left turns, according to a report from our sister site Better Roads. Being the guy holding the flags or signs to direct traffic on a […]
June 18, 2013
Business
U.S. rental construction, lack of first-time home buyers a sign of “inferior housing recovery”?
Despite recent dips in construction spending and employment, the mood in the industry is, well, better. Better than it was last year anyway as 151,000 jobs have been added since then, the unemployment rate is down to 13.2 percent and spending is up 5 percent. As we’ve noted before, a lot of this has to […]
May 8, 2013
Business
States begin new projects rather than repairing, maintaining existing infrastructure
The main reason the U.S. can’t afford to maintain its existing roads and bridges? States keep building new ones, reports McClatchy Newspapers. By now, the need for improvements to this country’s infrastructure is well-documented. The average age of the 600,000 bridges in the U.S. is 43 years — meaning a great deal of these bridges […]
February 4, 2013
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