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Roadbuilding: Page 210
Roadbuilding
Project engineer struck and killed by dump truck after just 2 days on the job
A 26-year-old project engineer in Texas was only on the job for two days before he was hit and killed by a dump truck Tuesday. KHOU reported that the man had recently started working with OHL Construction as an engineer. The man was walking back from lunch with some of his fellow engineers at about 12:30 p.m. […]
January 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
Pink paver helps VT LeeBoy and Stephenson Equipment raise $100,000 for American Cancer Society
VT LeeBoy and equipment dealer Stephenson Equipment recently presented a $100,000 check to the American Cancer Society for it’s Relay for Life, an amount raised in part by the use of a pink LeeBoy paver. The pink paver, a modified 8515C, was the brainchild of LeeBoy Human Resources Generalist Tamara Helderman. She came up with […]
January 29, 2016
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Roadbuilding
South Carolina proposes $725 million plan to widen Interstate 27
The South Carolina Department of Transportation wants to upgrade sections of Interstate 26, but it’s not going to be cheap. The department announced proposals for two new widening projects for the interstate—one located in Newberry, Lexington and Richland Counties and the other in Charleston County. The former is estimated to cost more than $241 million, while the […]
January 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
Watch Oregon DOT crews perform emergency 17-mile pothole fix on US 97
Oregon Department (ODOT) of Transportation crews were recently called out on an “all hands” assignment to patch potholes on a stretch of U.S. 97 near Chemult. ODOT District Manager Pat Creedican pulled in crews from four districts to help with the work that patched 17 miles of the highway. The agency reports that winter weather […]
January 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
Blizzard road rage ends with man firing gun at Massachusetts snow plow driver
Just as last weekend’s the deadly winter storm was slamming the east coast, a snowplow driver in Massachusetts found himself in more immediate danger when an angry motorist who had been drinking pulled out a gun and opened fire. No one was injured in the incident, which the driver claims was instigated by the snowplow […]
January 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
Texas DOT pleased with initial iPad testing for inspections
Inspectors for the Texas Department of Transportation might soon have a new tool that could make their jobs a little easier. TxDOT has been testing out equipping each of the state’s roughly 1,100 inspectors with tablets loaded with software tailored for their work. According to the Houston Chronicle, the new tablets could help save time and money for the department […]
January 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
Wisconsin DOT makes $108 million in transportation aid payments to local governments
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has made $108.18 million in payments to 1,924 local “units” of governments for General Transportation Aids, Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids. General Transportation Aids programs received the bulk of the payments at $104.91 million. These funds are designed to help “defray the costs of constructing, maintaining and […]
January 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
Tidy explosion drops Pittsburgh’s century-old Hulton Bridge into Allegheny River
A Pennsylvania bridge with more than a century of history was demolished Tuesday morning with more than 500 explosives above the Allegheny River. The Hulton Bridge connected the eastern Pittsburgh suburbs of Oakmont and Harmarville for 107 years, but the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that it was time to make way for the new bridge in part of a $66 million project. […]
January 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
FHWA provides $2 million in Emergency Relief funds for Alabama road and bridge repair from December storms
The Federal Highway Administration has made $2 million in Emergency Relief funds available to the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) to repair bridges and roads affected by flooding in December. Estimates in mid-January put the total damage from storms, which dumped up to 20 inches of rain in some parts of the state, at roughly […]
January 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
TRIP report shows 38% of major NY roads in poor condition; costing drivers $24.9 billion a year
Thirty-eight percent of New York’s major urban roads are in poor condition, which is one contributing factor that is costing the state’s drivers a collective $24.9 billion per year in increased vehicle operating costs, delays and collisions, according to a recent report by The Road Improvement Program (TRIP). The group indicates in its report 42 […]
January 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
Colorado DOT to begin displaying weekly tallies of highway deaths
The Colorado Department of Transportation wants to help make the roads safer by giving drivers a weekly reminder of those who have died in crashes this year. CDOT announced that it would begin to display a weekly tally of the year-to-date deaths in the state each Wednesday on digital signs across the state. The signs, […]
January 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
Iowa DOT first in U.S. to test sensors that detect, warn drivers of icy road conditions
A staffer for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson died after a wreck on an icy Iowa road last week, but the state is testing a new tool that could help to curtail similar wrecks in the future. KCCI reported the Iowa Department of Transportation is the first DOT in the country to test a new warning system called […]
January 26, 2016
Roadbuilding
FHWA says 2015 could go down as the most heavily traveled year ever
The Federal Highway Administration has released it’s November Traffic Volume Trends report showing that by the end of that month, U.S. driving reached 2.88 trillion miles, a sign that 2015 could be the most heavily traveled year ever. November alone marked 253 billion miles driven, with a seasonally adjusted vehicle miles traveled (VMT) figure of 264 […]
January 26, 2016
Roadbuilding
Four executive staff members added to Louisiana DOTD
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LDOTD) has added four executive staff members under the direction of new department Secretary Shawn Wilson’s direction. Myles Brumfield has been named Confidential Assistant to the Secretary, after previously serving as Special Assistant to Gov. John Bel Edwards. Chance McNeely will serve as Assistant to the Secretary for […]
January 26, 2016
Roadbuilding
Kentucky DOT worker killed while plowing snow during East Coast blizzard
A Kentucky Transportation Cabinet worker was killed Saturday morning after his snow plow slid into a ditch. According to Clarksville Now, Christopher Adams was plowing snow early Saturday morning when he called a supervisor to say his vehicle had slid off the road on Kentucky Highway 115. When the supervisor arrived to the scene, the […]
January 26, 2016
Roadbuilding
California slashes $754 million from transportation ; DOT says impact of job delays, cuts could be billions
California will have significantly less money to spend on transportation over the next five years following the California Transportation Commission’s decision to slash the Department of Transportation’s budget. According to Caltrans, the commission decided to cut the budget by $754 million over the next five years after a review of the current and projected financial situation. […]
January 25, 2016
Roadbuilding
BTS provides first 2016 quarterly update to National Transportation Statistics reference guide
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released the first quarterly update of 2016 for the web-only National Transportation Statics report. The update, released Friday, provides new information on 53 of the 260 tables of transportation data the report supplies, including the transportation system, safety, the economy and energy and the environment. […]
January 25, 2016
Roadbuilding
Iowa DOT looking for 2016 Urban Youth Corps program sponsors
The Iowa Department of Transportation is in search of non-profit agencies and organizations to sponsor its 2016 Urban Youth Corps program that provides transportation-related work projects and training to young people ages 16 to 21 who “face barriers” to employment. Program projects are funded for up to a five-month period between May 1 and Sept. […]
January 25, 2016
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