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Roadbuilding
Georgia DOT awards $396 million in contracts, including deferred projects
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has awarded $396.2 million in contracts across the state, including projects worth $264 million that had previously been deferred. GDOT announced last month it would not release 34 federally funded projects for bids in December due to federal funding uncertainty. A few of the previously deferred projects approved in […]
November 9, 2015
Roadbuilding
Arizona DOT workers find mystery machine and no one can figure out what it does
A crew of transportation workers in Mesa, Arizona found some kind of mystery machine recently, and the city is taking to the internet to find out what it is. According to the City of Mesa, the Transportation Department is hoping someone can help them figure out with the heavy piece of equipment is and who […]
November 8, 2015
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Roadbuilding
McKenna named new Missouri DOT director
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) has named Patrick McKenna as the new director of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), replacing Roberta Broeker who served as interim director since April. “I am excited and honored to take on the director’s position at MoDOT,” McKenna said. “Missouri faces a lot of transportation challenges, but […]
November 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
Virginia transportation board approves design concept for I-66 Outside the Beltway Project
Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) has approved the “Preferred Alternative” design concept for the Interstate 66 Outside the Beltway Project, aimed at improving 25 miles of the highway from I-495 in Fairfax County to Route 15 in Haymarket. The CTB says the concept is a “combination of various alternatives that were evaluated over the past year” and […]
November 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
Student engineering intern struck and killed by semi in North Dakota work zone
A 20-year-old engineering student working in an internship position died while working on a road project in North Dakota after he was struck by a semi truck. The Grand Forks Herald reported Benjamin Enterman was working for Stantec Inc. taking measurements to verify erosion control at a recently completed construction zone on Highway 23 on Oct. 27 when he was […]
November 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
House passes $325 billion, 6-year transportation bill
America’s infrastructure is much closer to having long-term funding following the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passing a new highway bill on Thursday. According to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, after representatives voted on over 100 amendments, the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 was passed with a resounding 363-64 vote. The bill, which was […]
November 5, 2015
Roadbuilding
Texas voters overwhelmingly approve $2.5 billion in funding for transportation projects
Texas voters gave a resounding ‘yes’ to new transportation funding Tuesday as they passed Proposition 7 with more than 80 percent of the votes. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, the new funding from Proposition 7 will give the state more money to spend on infrastructure projects without having to enact new taxes, tolls, fees […]
November 5, 2015
Roadbuilding
Seattle voters approve levy for $930 million transportation funding plan
Voters in Seattle voted yes to the “Transportation Levy to Move Seattle,“ which will provide $930 million over nine years to fund transportation projects in the city through a property tax increase. The levy would cost the homeowner of a median priced home in the Seattle, $450,000, roughly $275 per year. Homeowners have been paying […]
November 5, 2015
Roadbuilding
Maine voters approve $85 million bond program for infrastructure projects
Voters in Maine have approved an $85 million bond program that would supply funding for road and bridge projects as well as multimodal infrastructure work. More than 70 percent of voters approved the measure Earlier this year Gov. Paul LePage approved the bill, LD 1415, which placed the funding vote on the state’s ballot earlier […]
November 5, 2015
Roadbuilding
Senate passes bill to block EPA’s controversial clean water rule
The U.S. Senate has voted to block the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the United States rule, according to The Hill. However, the vote doesn’t mean those in the construction and aggregates industries who opposed the rule can rest easily quite yet. The bill was blocked with a Congressional Review Act resolution, which passed 53-44. […]
November 4, 2015
Roadbuilding
Centerpiece of Ohio River Project nearly complete; set to open to traffic in December
The final steel beam is set and the last of the precast deck panels are in place on the Downtown Crossing in Louisville, Kentucky. All that’s left are a few minor details and then the centerpiece of the $2.6 billion project will be ready to carry drivers for the first time. The Ohio River Bridges […]
November 4, 2015
Roadbuilding
Michigan lawmakers send package of transportation-funding bills to governor
The Michigan House and Senate passed a package of seven bills aimed at providing $1.2 billion a year for bridge and road projects, split evenly between existing funds and new taxes. The plan, dubbed the 600/600 or Plan R, has been sent to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature. The bills also provided for $200 […]
November 4, 2015
Roadbuilding
Widow of Wisconsin road worker calls for drivers to be more careful in work zones
Karen Burkhalter’s husband was working on a Wisconsin highway back in April when he was struck by a driver. It marked Calumet County’s first highway department death. Burkhalter’s husband Derrick was recently honored at a ceremony announcing there would be a memorial set up in the worker’s honor, according to WBAY. The fallen DOT worker was […]
November 4, 2015
Roadbuilding
USDOT, CDC release online tool profiling transportation impacts on health
The U.S. Department of and Transportaion (USDOT) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have launched an online source for profiles highlighting the impact of transportation on health broken down by state and region. The resource is simply called the Transportation and Health Tool (THT). The two agencies developed it to help transportation […]
November 3, 2015
Roadbuilding
Statewide drill will test Missouri DOT’s “winter battle plan” readiness
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) today is testing its winter weather readiness with a statewide drill that simulates a forecast for “significant snow” across the state. “Over 3,500 MoDOT employees are involved in our winter operations, including every maintenance crew across the state,” said State Maintenance Engineer Becky Allmeroth. “The annual drill helps to […]
November 3, 2015
Roadbuilding
Texas DOT worker honored for attempting to save man’s life
A Texas Department of Transportation worker was honored by the agency last month for his effort to save a man’s life. According to TxDOT, construction inspector Kevin Urbancyzk was heading to a bridge construction site in April when he saw a car that was just barely puled over to the side of the road. Urbancyzk saw […]
November 3, 2015
Roadbuilding
Wisconsin raises speed limit to 70 mph on some non-Interstate freeway segments
Nine non-Interstate sections of freeways across Wisconsin will see speeds rising in the coming weeks. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has begun installing 70 miles per hour speed limit signs on certain highways in the state where the department has determined the higher speed is needed. The speed limit will be raised on 161 miles of Wisconsin […]
November 3, 2015
Roadbuilding
Dump truck electrocutes, kills worker on Oklahoma paving job
A construction worker in Oklahoma was killed recently in a bizarre electrocution accident involving a dump truck. According to a report from The Oklahoman, 34-year-old Victor M. Rameriez Baltazar was killed October 21 while working as part of a crew carrying out a paving job on a highway near Clinton. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol tells the paper Baltazar […]
November 2, 2015
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