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Roadbuilding
Time-lapse chronicles 64-foot raising of Bayonne Bridge roadway in NJ
New Jersey’s Bayonne Bridge is nearing the completion of a $1.6 billion project that is increasing the height of its roadway. You can watch a time-lapse of the roadway’s elevation in the video below. The roadway is being raised in order to allow for larger container ships to pass beneath the bridge to reach ports at […]
May 9, 2017
Roadbuilding
Florida Transportation Commission to interview 5 for DOT secretary`
The Florida Transportation Commission (FTC) has selected five candidates for the Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), with interviews scheduled for May 11. Former FDOT Secretary Jim Boxold, who took the position in January 2015, resigned effective Feb. 3 this year to serve as a lobbyist at Capital City Consulting. Rachel Cone has […]
May 9, 2017
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Roadbuilding
Michigan DOT uses local data in making better safety investment decisions
Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) staff are aiming to use data-driven processes and practices from the AASHTO Highway Safety Manual (HSM) to estimate the safety impacts of various crash reduction strategies and highway design alternatives, such as adding a median or varying the widths of lanes or shoulders. While these models, also known as safety […]
May 9, 2017
Roadbuilding
TxDOT selects Pegasus Link Constructors for $565 million Southern Gateway project
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has named Pegasus Link Constructors as the design-build contractor for the $565 million Southern Gateway project that will widen and reconstruct 11 miles of Interstate 35 south of downtown Dallas. Construction is set to begin as early as the end of this year and is expected to be complete […]
May 8, 2017
Roadbuilding
WVU researcher says FRP wrap repairs bridges for half the cost
Hoto GangaRao, a researcher at West Virginia University (WVU) and director of the Constructed Facilities Center at WVU, believes the nation’s deteriorating roads and bridges can be “renewed” with a polymer-based product that has already been tested on two bridges, The Intelligencer, Wheeling News-Register reports. According to the news agency, in the late 1980s, GangaRao […]
May 8, 2017
Roadbuilding
MaineDOT opens Bath Viaduct 25 days ahead of schedule
The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) and contractor Reed & Reed have opened the Bath Viaduct 25 days ahead of schedule, completing it in 195 days. The department says it took 729 days to complete the original structure when it was finished in 1959. “While we were able to move quickly through the demolition, we […]
May 8, 2017
Roadbuilding
Delaware DOT open house to kick-off 100th anniversary commemoration
The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) will hold an open house May 10 at its administration building in Dover as a kick-off celebration commemorating the agency’s 100th anniversary. The public will be able to walk through the two levels of the main atrium as well as adjacent rooms to view various displays including historical photographs, […]
May 8, 2017
Roadbuilding
Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” to be completed 6 months ahead of schedule
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the raising of the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge, dubbed the “Raise the Roadway” project, will be complete by June 30, six months ahead of schedule. The roadway is being raised to allow for larger container ships to pass underneath the bridge to reach the ports at Newark, Elizabeth […]
May 5, 2017
Roadbuilding
APWA names 2017 Top 10 Public Works Leaders of the Year
The American Public Works Association has named its Top 10 Public Works Leaders of the Year for 2017, a program that recognizes “outstanding career service achievements of individual public works professionals” in North America. The award is given to individuals in both the public and private sectors. “The Top Ten Public Works Leader Award aims to […]
May 5, 2017
Roadbuilding
Iowa DOT extends partnership with INRIX for road safety services
The Iowa Department of Transportation has partnered with INRIX to use additional traffic services for real-time traffic and road safety management. INRIX has been supplying traffic data for the past three years for the agency to use in its traffic management and operations. Iowa DOT will now use the INRIX Dangerous Slowdowns system that provides […]
May 5, 2017
Roadbuilding
Missouri DOT: 230+ roads still closed due to flooding
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) reports more than 230 roads across the state are still closed due to flooding and damages from recent heavy rains and storms. Both northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 55 between St. Louis and Jefferson counties were closed late yesterday, and I-44 was closed in St. Louis for a […]
May 4, 2017
Roadbuilding
Wisconsin DOT issues $83.6 million in quarterly payments to local governments
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has issued $83.6 million in payments to local governments in its most recent quarterly submission for General Transportation Aids, Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids. The payments are sent to 1,925 “local units of government” across the state. General Transportation Aids, which “defray the costs of constructing, maintaining, […]
May 4, 2017
Roadbuilding
Caltrans honors fallen employees at 27th Annual Workers Memorial
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) honored three employees who passed away in the past year during its 27th Annual Workers Memorial in Sacramento. Since 1921, 187 agency employees have died on the job. The three recognized this year include: Jorge Lopez, 57, an electrician who was struck and killed on Sept. 1, 2016, by a […]
May 4, 2017
Roadbuilding
Seattle’s SR 520 floating bridge receives ACEC’s 2017 Grand Conceptor Award
The Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) SR 520 floating bridge, first opened to traffic last year, has been awarded the 2017 Grand Conceptor Award for “the nation’s best overall engineering achievement” from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). Groups working on the project included HDR, the general engineering consultant on SR 520 reconstruction […]
May 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
New nanostructured concrete technology increases load-carrying capacity by more than 200%
Scientists at Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in Russia have developed a new construction technique based on nanostructured high-strength, lightweight concrete. According to a report by Electronics 360, the concrete can increase load-carrying capability by more than 200 percent and decrease the density of construction by 80 percent, as well as offer resistance to […]
May 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
FY 2017 Omnibus Bill provides USDOT $77.1 billion total, $19.3 billion in discretionary appropriations
The fiscal year 2017 Omnibus Bill to provide budgetary guidelines through September provides for $77.1 billion in total and $19.3 billion in discretionary appropriations for the U.S. Department of Transportation. The discretionary appropriations figure is $681 million more than the enacted level for FY 2016. President Donald Trump’s blueprint budget proposal issued in early March […]
May 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
Missouri DOT to allow heavier than normal aggregate truckloads to help with flood relief
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is allowing through the end of May heavier than normal truckloads of rock, sand and gravel on the state’s highways to allow for the raw materials to be used in repairs of roads and other infrastructure following flooding from recent storms. “While the waiver is in effect, private and […]
May 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
I-85 Update: Georgia DOT says bridge will be rebuilt and open by May 25
Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Commissioner Russell McMurry says the I-85 bridge over Piedmont Road reconstruction near Atlanta will be finished and open by May 25 in time for the annual heavy traffic weekend before Memorial Day. GDOT’s original estimated completion date had been June 15. The bridge was destroyed by fire at the end of […]
May 2, 2017
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