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Roadbuilding

Man arrested for intentionally striking road construction worker with car in Calif.

A Novato, California, man was arrested after he intentionally struck a road construction worker with his vehicle at approximately 8:45 a.m. Dec. 2, the Novato Patch reports. The Novato Police Department responded to the incident and reported that the driver left the scene in his vehicle. The Police determined that, when the construction worker held up a stop […]

December 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

California governor signs bill to allow bridge construction over creek with protected fish

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill September 13 that will allow Shasta County to proceed with its plans for a bridge over Spring Creek, a tributary of the Fall River, that has been stalled for some time, KRCR News reports. Assembly Bill 1845, which was sponsored by Assemblyman Brian Dahle, grants a one-time authorization for Shasta County to build […]

September 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

FHWA awards grants to 7 states to test mileage-based user fee collection methods

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded $14.2 million in federal grants to seven states—California, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, and Washington—to figure out how best to charge drivers for miles driven rather than gasoline consumed, Bloomberg BNA reports. The grants were made possible by the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives program, part of the Fixing America’s […]

September 9, 2016

Roadbuilding

California awarded $40 million in TIGER grants for 4 projects

Four California municipalities have received a total of $40 million in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Program (TIGER) grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation to be used on four distinct projects. “These grants reflect an important investment in California’s modern transportation system,” says Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. “They not only ensure that Californians will […]

August 3, 2016

Roadbuilding

San Bernardino awards contract to KEC Engineering for Garnet Street Bridge replacement

On June 28, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors awarded a $4,053,725.50 contract to KEC Engineering of Corona for the construction of the Garnet Street Bridge on Mill Creek in Mentone, Highland Community News reports. The bridge project consists of removing the existing steel truss bridge and constructing a new bridge on a two-span, cast-in-place, pre-stressed […]

July 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

New survey says majority of Americans support usage fees to fix crumbling roads

A newly published survey reports that nearly two-thirds of Americans would support roadway user fees to help fix the country’s crumbling transportation infrastructure, according to a report in Reuters. One of the options was to pay for the number of miles a vehicle travels, according to the survey of 1,002 Americans more than 18 years old that […]

May 2, 2016

Roadbuilding

LA Metro reveals 40-year, $120 billion transportation plan

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ambitious plans for the city if a newly revealed plan passes in November. The LA Metro announced the plan March 18 and said it would send about $120 billion to transit projects and highway projects over the next 40 years. Measure R would pay for these projects by extending LA county’s current […]

March 22, 2016

Roadbuilding

California lowers gas tax by 2.2 cents per gallon

While states like Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi are considering raising their gas taxes to better fund infrastructure, California’s tax board recently decided that its residents paid too much for gas last year, and will give them a break at the pump. The Associated Press reported that the California Board of Equalization voted 3-2 Tuesday to lower the […]

February 25, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans dismantles 504-foot long section of old Bay Bridge

The California Department of Transportation recently dismantled a massive chunk of the old Bay Bridge in Oakland. According to Caltrans, the department finished up a major project at the beginning of the month in its three-year demolition of the old Bay Bridge as it cut loose the 504-foot long, 2,500-ton steel truss and lowered it onto waiting […]

February 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans ordered to pay $12 million for construction crews’ exposure to fungus

The California Department of Transportation has been ordered to pay close to $12 million to five contracted construction employees for exposing them to a dangerous fungus. According to the Los Angeles Times, a jury in Solano County ruled that Caltrans knew there was a dangerous fungus that causes an incurable respiratory disease known as valley fever at the […]

February 2, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans workers clear Highway 299 after a landslide

A minor landslide earlier this month turned into a much larger problem in California after El Nino pounded northern California. The California Department of Transportation spent two days digging Highway 299 out from 1,500 cubic yards of debris that fell on the highway. For two days, the road was closed disrupting a connection between 130,000 people […]

February 1, 2016

Roadbuilding

Watch Caltrans use explosives to move a 20-ton boulder

A 20-ton boulder blocking a rural road might seem like an pretty difficult thing to move, but not when you have explosives. After the massive boulder fell onto U.S. Highway 50 about 80 miles north of Sacramento, the California Department of Transportation cleared the area and brought in the big guns – well, big explosives. In […]

January 21, 2016