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Tag: Interstate 5
Roadbuilding
Caltrans marks beginning of $370M SAC 5 Corridor Enhancement Project
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) released a statement marking the beginning of the $370 million SAC 5 Corridor Enhancement Project to reduce congestion on Interstate 5 by installing 67 miles of new and rehabilitated lanes from 1 mile south of Elk Grove Blvd. to the American River viaduct north of downtown Sacramento, The Sacramento […]
August 14, 2019
Roadbuilding
$1.8B, nine-bridge improvement project completed thanks to Calif.’s SB-1
Caltrans reports that it has officially completed a $1.8 billion project that improved nine bridges in five Sacramento Valley counties. Get more details here.
December 18, 2018
Roadbuilding
Ore. DOT crews use hydroblasting to remove old concrete from I-5 bridge decks
The Oregon DOT is removing concrete by using a technique called hydroblasting. It is said to be cheaper and more efficient than other concrete removal methods.
July 23, 2018
Roadbuilding
Repaving of Golden State Freeway leads to lane closures
Work continues on a $171 million repaving project for Interstate 5/Golden State Freeway. The California Department of Transportation reports the work is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2019. Drivers have been facing temporary lane closures and temporary changes in traffic patterns for the work. But Caltrans says it is limiting most of those inconveniences […]
January 2, 2018
Roadbuilding
Several deficiencies exposed in Skagit River Bridge collapse
Several deficiencies have been exposed following the collapse of Skagit River Bridge on Interstate-5 near Mt. Vernon, Wash. The collapse happened when the bridge was struck by a truck carrying an oversized load. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found a series of problems after investigating the collapse. First and foremost, the driver of the […]
July 22, 2014
Roadbuilding
String of failures led to I-5 bridge strike, collapse in 2013, NTSB says
The collapsed section of I-5 in Washington over the Skagit River. The bridge has since been repaired. The National Transportation Safety Board blames a “series of deficiencies” on the events that led to a truck with an oversized load striking a sway brace on the bridge last May and causing it to collapse into the Skagit River, […]
July 17, 2014
Roadbuilding
Caltrans wins Pavement Pioneer Award for Perpetual Pavement projects
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has received a national Pavement Pioneer Award for the long-life asphalt pavement projects recently constructed on Interstate 5 in Northern California. Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty received the award on behalf of the agency at the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA) Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference last week in Sacramento. Mike […]
October 31, 2013
Roadbuilding
Long-life asphalt pavement: Red Bluff lessons
Caltrans Senior Engineer Sean Shepard (I-5 Red Bluff job) and Caltrans Resident Engineer John Bailey (I-5 Weed job) share lessons learned on the Long-Life Asphalt Pavement Projects on Interstate 5. . . Editor’s Note: This is a web-exclusive piece to complement “Long Live Asphalt Pavements,” the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) Special Section in the […]
October 7, 2013
Roadbuilding
AP analysis deems 7,795 bridges both structurally deficient and fracture critical
A recent Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory has proven 7,795 — 1.2 percent — of those bridges to be both structurally deficient and fracture critical. The report also found that 65,605 of the bridges were classified only as “structurally deficient,” while 20,808 were found to be […]
September 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews move I-5 permanent replacement span into place
[Correction: The article previously noted that WSDOT expects work to be completed in early October. It has been edited to reflect the correct time frame, in mid November.) The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced Sunday that the permanent replacement bridge for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge opened to traffic over the weekend. […]
September 16, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews complete Oregon’s Whilamut Passage Bridge four months early
[Correction: This article originally reported that the new bridges would “double highway capacity by accommodating three lanes of traffic with shoulders on each bridge.” However, the bridges will actually carry two lanes of traffic in each direction–the same as the old bridges. The incorrect statement has been removed.] Crews completed construction last week of the […]
July 29, 2013
Roadbuilding
Can your bridges withstand a hit by a heavy semi?
A disturbingly large number of America’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete (see Better Roads’ November bridge inventory). But how many are “fracture-critical?” Washington State’s collapsed I-5 bridge was fracture-critical when it was hit by a heavily loaded truck. But it is far from alone in the state of Washington in that classification and […]
July 18, 2013
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