Kerry Clines (EQW)RoadbuildingCrews demo century-old Virginia St. Bridge, construct and move new one into place (Time-lapse)The time lapse video below shows the entire construction project of the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada. The 110-year-old original earth-filled, concrete-arch bridge was showing signs of extreme wear, so the City of Reno, in partnership with the Truckee River Flood Management Authority, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Highway Administration, […]October 19, 2016RoadbuildingTexas DOT plans $311.2 million in road projects for Tyler areaThe Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) estimates that $311.2 million will be available for Tyler-area road projects through the year 2040, the Tyler Morning Telegraph reports. This is a 184.4 percent increase over the $109.4 million previously projected, thanks to voters approving two measures to put more money into the state’s transportation system. On Thursday, the Tyler […]October 18, 2016RoadbuildingOklahoma DOT continues efforts to reduce number of obsolete bridgesContinuing efforts to reduce the number of obsolete bridges in the state, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved the Department of Transportation’s plans to replace an 80-year-old span over a creek in the heart of Guthrie, the Times Record reports. In 2004, there were 1,168 structurally deficient highway bridges in Oklahoma. Now, there are only 321, which are […]October 17, 2016RoadbuildingMissouri DOT plans improvements to 12 bridges in Callaway CountyThe Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) plans to make improvements to 12 bridges in Callaway County in 2017, abc17news.com reports. The improvements are expected to cost approximately $8 million, with funds coming from the construction budget through the Statewide Transportation Program (STIP). MoDOT Central District Project Manager Mike Dusenberg told the news agency that work will begin in March or […]October 13, 2016RoadbuildingIndiana DOT announces $80 million in federal transportation funding grantsThe Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced that $80 million in federal transportation grants will go to 64 cities, towns, and counties in rural Indiana for infrastructure improvements, according to a report by the Washington Times Herald. “Over the last decade, Indiana has demonstrated a commitment to investing in infrastructure that is nearly unmatched,” Indiana Lt. […]October 11, 2016RoadbuildingNew Canandaigua Road bridge opens over Erie Canal in New YorkThe new Canandaigua Road bridge over the Erie Canal in Macedon, New York, opened October 1, the Times of Wayne County reports. The new steel bridge is supported by two piers and features two 11-foot travel lanes with 4-foot shoulders on each side and a 5-foot concrete sidewalk on the west side that connects the Erie Canalway […]October 10, 2016RoadbuildingAPAC-Kansas donates Roadtec paver to spur interest in diesel technician careersAPAC-Kansas Inc., an Oldcastle company, donated a 2003 Roadtec asphalt paver valued at $20,000 to Salina Area Technical College and treated students students and faculty to a BBQ lunch, ksal.com reports. Mike Warren, equipment manager for APAC-Kansas in Salina, and area manager Jason Heis told the news agency that the company wanted to donate the paver […]October 7, 2016RoadbuildingMississippi DOT takes lawmakers out to see deteriorating road and bridge conditionsIn an effort to help lawmakers better understand why funding is needed to repair Mississippi’s roads and bridges, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) took a group of them out to several trouble spots duing the summer of 2016, wtok.com reports. “If we continue to operate under the same level of funding that we’re operating at today, then what you see […]October 6, 2016RoadbuildingAla. county replacing 5 bridges with funding from state’s transportation rehab programLauderdale County, Alabama, is ready to accept bids on five bridge replacement projects that are set to begin in early 2017, the Times Daily reports. The projects will be funded through the $15 million the county received for road and bridge projects from the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program (ATRIP), which was approved by the Alabama Legislature in […]October 5, 2016RoadbuildingLast piece of world’s highest bridge set in place in ChinaThe CCTV News video below shows the last section of the Beipanjiang Bridge being set in place. Suspended 565 meters (1,854 feet) above the Nizhu River Canyon in China where the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces meet, the bridge will be the highest in the world. The bridge, which was officially completed on September 3 took as many as […]October 4, 2016Previous PagePage 76 of 91Next PageTop StoriesOff-Road TrucksDeere Previews Autonomous Haul Truck: One Truck, Two Operation ModesThe bolt-on autonomy system would let contractors switch their articulated dump trucks between manual and autonomous operation. 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