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Mass. town receives $949k grant to repair 3 bridges

Charlemont received a $949,000 grant from the MassWorks Infrastructure Program to repair three bridges, The Recorder reports. The city will return two weight-restricted bridges on Route 8A North (also known as North Heath Road) to full service, and replace the Legate Hill Road bridge superstructure. Selectmen Sarah Reynolds and Toby Gould received the town’s grant at […]

November 8, 2016

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Mass. town receives $13.4 million federal grant for improvements to 6 bridges

Six bridges in Lowell, Massachusetts, are slated for improvements beginning in 2017 and finishing up in the fall of 2022, The Lowell Sun reports. The city received a $13.4 million federal grant in October 2015 to pay for a majority of the repairs or replacement of eight bridges, including a bridge that carries Kearney Square over the Eastern Canal that was repaired in […]

September 21, 2016

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Penn. county will use P3 to replace 33 structurally deficient bridges

Pennsylvania transportation officials will be watching Northampton County for the next few years as it begins a program to replace or repair more than a fourth of its bridges. The Morning Call reports that the county’s General Purpose Authority will award a Private-Public Partnership (P3) contract to replace 33 structurally deficient bridges in record time, while locking in the county’s costs. […]

September 16, 2016

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Mass. town officials assure public unfinished look of road just part of cold-in-place recycling

A recent paving project on Route 43 in Williamstown, Mass., might have residents wondering if it’s really finished, according to a report by iBerkshires.com. The cold-in-place recycling technique the city is using leaves the road looking unfinished for a little while. Town Manager Jason Hoch told the news agency that, “At the end of the project, it will look and […]

August 18, 2016

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Mass. town must repair/replace 2 failing bridges or face closures by state DOT

The Select Board in Stockbridge, Mass., told the city that it must repair or replace at least two failing bridges on Route 183 at a potential cost of up to several million dollars, or else face a possible shutdown of a key state highway connecting Stockbridge and Lenox, The Berkshire Eagle reports. According to the report, Selectman Stephen […]

August 4, 2016

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Mass. lawmakers want to focus funding on repairing small bridges

Massachusetts lawmakers want to start a new “Small Bridge Program” to focus on repairing municipally owned bridges less than 20 feet in length that don’t qualify for federal funding and rural towns can’t afford to repair, wwlp.com reports. These bridges don’t qualify for federal funding because of their size, and many rural towns can’t afford fix them. “Anyone of […]

July 14, 2016

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Construction of Burns Memorial Bridge in Mass. one of the more beautiful time-lapses you’ll see

In November, the new and improved Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge was opened to the public following more than three years of construction. Construction on the new 870-foot bridge, which connects Worcester and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, began in August 2012, according to a report from MassLive.com. Recently, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation released the time-lapse video below chronicling […]

June 8, 2016

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Cop working construction zone dragged by vehicle

A police officer working in a construction zone in Wayland, Massachusetts was injured recently after being dragged by a vehicle for several feet. According to the Boston Globe, Sgt. Jennifer Ordway was out of her vehicle in the construction zone on Route 30 when she started talking to the driver of a vehicle through the passenger window. The driver of […]

February 29, 2016

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Road worker suspended for speeding toward man with wheel loader

A city worker in Rockland, Massachusetts has been suspended after he was accused of trying to run over a resident with the snow plow he was operating. According to WHDH in Boston, the incident began when a snow plow operator asked the owner of a local car trading business lot to remove snow from the sidewalk. […]

February 11, 2016

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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

2015 Better Roads Bridge Inventory: Ohio the bridge poster child; D.C. still has most SD/FO spans

No surprise: the top challenge facing state DOTs in improving structurally deficient (SD) and functionally obsolete (FO) bridges is funding, according to our 2015 Better Roads Bridge Inventory. And while maintenance was second on the list of challenges, this year staffing also mentioned as a top-level concern. The national average for percentage of SD/FO bridges […]

November 17, 2015

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Montana tops list of 10 deadliest states for motorists

Forbes has a new list out of the top 10 deadliest states in America for drivers, and Montana’s 80 mph speed limits and rural roads pushed it to the top spot. Washington, D.C., was named the safest place to drive. The Forbes list is based on a study from the University of Michigan Transportation Research […]

October 8, 2015