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Roadbuilding
Foxx urges careful consideration when determining placement of roads
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is encouraging road developers to think carefully before placing a highway through the middle of a neighborhood. The Atlantic reports that Foxx’s grandparents lived such a neighborhood, and the result was a disconnection of the cut-off part of the neighborhood from the city and opportunity. Now, Foxx wants to do something about that. The news […]
April 7, 2016
Roadbuilding
National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 11-15
This year’s theme for National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW), set for April 11-15, is “Don’t be THAT Driver: Work on Safety. Get Home Safely. Every Day.” The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will host the kick-off event for this year’s program near the 32-mile I-75 widening project outside of Toledo on April 12 at […]
April 7, 2016
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Roadbuilding
Caltrans partners with Waze app for Connected Citizens Program
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has partnered with the crowdsourced navigation app Waze and will contribute to the company’s Connected Citizen’s Program. In this move, Caltrans joins a growing list of state departments of transportation sharing data with Waze. These include Nebraska, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. “Combining the real-time anonymous data […]
April 7, 2016
Roadbuilding
Final leg of I-75 widening from Georgia line to southwest Florida to begin in 2018
The final leg of I-75 widening from the Florida-Georgia border to the southwest region of Florida will begin in 2018, according to an announcement from Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The project involves expanding the interstate from four to six lanes from south of Jones Loop Road to U.S. 17 in Charlotte County near Punta Gorda. […]
April 6, 2016
Roadbuilding
Colorado DOT selects Flatiron/AECOM for C-470 tolled express lanes project
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has selected Flatiron/AECOM as the Apparent Selected Proposer for the 12.5-mile C-470 Tolled Express Lanes Segment 1 Design-Build project. The agency says currently more than 100,000 motorists travel over this section of C-470 each day and estimates that figure to increase by 40 percent by 2035. The project will […]
April 6, 2016
Roadbuilding
Minnesota DOT asks farmers to participate in Living Snow Fence program
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is asking farmers to participate in the agency’s Living Snow Fence Program by leaving standing corn rows, hay bales or silage bags to help reduce snow from blowing onto state highways. MnDOT is timing the announcement to coincide with planting season so farmers can incorporate their involvement into their […]
April 6, 2016
Roadbuilding
I-90 support beam collapse kills 1 worker, injures 3 in Chicago
One worker is dead and three others injured after a large beam fell from Interstate 90 in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines early Tuesday morning. According to a report from WLS TV, Illinois Tollway crews were in the process of removing beams from beneath a section of the highway over Touhy Avenue when the accident […]
April 5, 2016
Roadbuilding
Texas DOT set to lower truck tolls to help reduce congestion
The Texas Transportation Commission has approved a measure that would reduce truck tolls in certain areas in an effort to move trucks off of higher volume roadways to ease congestion. The thinking is that trucks have been opting for certain roads in an effort to avoid paying tolls, and thereby exacerbating congestion issues on other […]
April 5, 2016
Roadbuilding
FHWA Administrator Nadeau helps open world’s longest floating bridge
State and local officials, along with Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Administrator Gregory Nadeau, on April 2 attended the grand opening of the SR 520 Bridge in Seattle, the longest floating bridge in the world. The bridge’s westbound lanes will open to traffic April 11, followed by the eastbound lanes opening April 25. A virtual tour […]
April 5, 2016
Roadbuilding
Mississippi DOT celebrates 100th birthday
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) celebrated its 100th birthday on March 29, MS News Now reports. In celebration of 100 years, a time capsule was buried during a special ceremony held outside MDOT’s administration building in Jackson. The capsule, set to be opened in 50 years, contains items that will give future generations a glimpse of what MDOT and […]
April 5, 2016
Roadbuilding
AASHTO Transportation Management Fellows begin 12-month program
Three state departments of transportation officials have begun their 12-month-long fellowships with American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO). This year marks the first time the AASHTO Transportation Management Fellowship has been opened up to divisions beyond its engineering division, and will include a planning fellow and policy fellow in addition to engineering. “This […]
April 5, 2016
Roadbuilding
Do Tesla’s 200K+ Model 3 pre-orders signal the shift to electric on U.S. highways?
With many pundits calling it the U.S electric car manufacturer’s most important product to date, Tesla this past weekend unveiled the highly anticipated Model 3. And if pre-orders are any indication of how the car will change the landscape of Amerian highways, the shift to electric may soon be upon us. Though hybrids and cars with […]
April 4, 2016
Roadbuilding
Ohio DOT set for $2.1 billion in transportation projects in 2016
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) reports it will work on roughly 1,100 new transportation projects in 2016 at a value of $2.1 billion. “We’re charged with the care of Ohio’s largest man-made asset—the transportation network,” says ODOT Director Jerry Wray. “We take this very seriously, because investments in our infrastructure are vital to Ohio’s […]
April 4, 2016
Roadbuilding
Proposed 2016-2017 Colorado budget would cut transportation funding
Colorado’s new $27 billion budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 was introduced to the state house on March 28 and according to WesternSlope Now.com, lawmakers will pull $2.7 million from reserve funds to make up for a shortfall created by cuts to specific funds, such as transportation. CDOT gets most of its funding from state and federal […]
April 4, 2016
Roadbuilding
Maryland governor touts $139.4 million in widening projects to aid congestion near Fort Meade
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced $139.4 million worth of construction projects aimed at widening MD 175 near the U.S. Army’s Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County. The area has been growing steadily over the past 10 years and the three main construction projects will widen a three-mile stretch of the road from […]
April 4, 2016
Roadbuilding
N. Dakota DOT looks for innovative transportation ideas
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is partnering with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) for the Transportation Innovation Program whitch seeks to develop innovative solutions for transportation project needs. NDDOT and UGPTI are now seeking submissions for the first of four rounds of the program, now in its second year. Submissions can come […]
April 4, 2016
Roadbuilding
AGC and NSSGA respond to OSHA’s revised silica exposure rule
On March 24, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez issued the final workplace exposure standard for crystalline silica, which will soon be published by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The new standard cuts the current permissible exposure limit (PEL) in half, reducing the exposure limit from 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air […]
April 1, 2016
Roadbuilding
North Carolina DOT to open new diverging diamond interchange April 4
The North Carolina Department of Transportation is set to open on April 4 the new diverging diamond interchange (DDI) on N.C. 133/Village Road in Brunswick County as part of the Leland Causeway Bridge Project. DDIs eliminate left turns that have to clear opposing traffic, a design that is useful in high-traffic areas. They can cut […]
April 1, 2016
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