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Mo. coalition forms to lure high-speed Hyperloop route for I-70

A new coalition is raising money to try to attract a Hyperloop route to Missouri between Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis along Interstate 70. The coalition hopes to beat out other urban areas around the world to entice the Hyperloop One company to build its first Hyperloop route in Missouri. The company says it […]

October 5, 2017

Dealers

Business Roundup: Superior expands General Equipment partnership; Deutz spreads Power Centers; Largest Cat dealer transaction; United Rentals buys Cummins power assets; Deere income soars

Superior expands partnership with General Equipment in Neb., Iowa General Equipment & Supplies, a Midwestern distributor of aggregate and construction equipment, has become an exclusive dealer for Superior Industries in Iowa and Nebraska. Superior has maintained a longtime partnership with General Equipment for selling and servicing its conveying equipment throughout the Upper Midwest. The expanded […]

September 12, 2017

Dealers

Deutz spreads Power Center concept to Southeast

Deutz has turned its South Carolina location into its second Power Center, a new concept designed to expand the engine maker’s offerings beyond its service centers. The Deutz Power Center Southeast is the new name for the former Deutz Carolinas service center, which underwent rebranding this year. The announcement follows the opening last October of […]

September 5, 2017

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Conco turns to Terex’s TR70 for hauling needs

Conco Companies, which was founded in Missouri in 1947 as a ready-mix concrete company, acquired two quarries when it purchased Garrett Construction Co. in 1958. This created Conco Quarries, which is now a subsidiary of Ash Grove Cement. “Over the last seven decades Conco has grown from a small operation with just seven employees and […]

July 31, 2017

Roadbuilding

Missouri S&T announces new professor of civil and environmental engineering

Dr. Magdy Abdelrahman, professor of civil and environmental engineering at North Dakota State University, has been named the Missouri Asphalt Pavement Association (MAPA) Endowed Professor in Flexible Pavements at Missouri University of Science and Technology beginning Aug. 1, Missouri S&T reports. His research is on infrastructure sustainability with a focus on applications of recycled materials […]

May 17, 2017

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT celebrates 30 years of Adopt-A-Highway Program

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) marked 30 years of its Adopt-A-Highway Program with a celebration in Jefferson City. Missouri began the program in 1987, following the effort by Texas in the mid-1980s to involve state citizens in helping to clean up areas around state highways. Missouri has more than 5,200 groups and 50,000 volunteers involved […]

April 24, 2017

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT plans improvements to 12 bridges in Callaway County

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) plans to make improvements to 12 bridges in Callaway County in 2017, abc17news.com reports. The improvements are expected to cost approximately $8 million, with funds coming from the construction budget through the Statewide Transportation Program (STIP). MoDOT Central District Project Manager Mike Dusenberg told the news agency that work will begin in March or […]

October 13, 2016

Roadbuilding

Route 66 will soon become a testing ground for solar sidewalks and roads

Route 66 will soon become the testing ground for an experiment that developers hope may change our roadways in the future. Curbed reports that hexagonal glass panels manufactured by Solar Roadways will be laid over a sidewalk near a rest stop in Conway, Missouri, in early December. According to Missouri Department of Transportation staff, this will […]

September 26, 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

MoDOT begins work on first of 2 major road projects in St. Louis

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) began work on one of two major road construction projects planned for St. Louis in June, Fox 2 News reports. On June 2, the agency began removing the Grand Bridge over Interstate 44. Crews will demolish and rebuild the bridge in two halves so that Grand can remain open to traffic. One lane […]

June 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

FHWA and 6 states collaborate on pollinator habitat for Monarch butterflies

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and DOTs in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas have agreed to improve pollinator habitat along Interstate 35, which follows a migratory corridor for the Monarch butterfly. The Monarch butterflies’ birth and egg-laying cycles take them on a route from Canada to Mexico, a roughly 2,000-mile trek. The land […]

June 3, 2016

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Missouri governor calls for an increase in state’s gas tax

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is hoping legislators in his state support a gas tax hike to help pay for needed highway improvements. Nixon was speaking on the KCUR show “Up To Date” when he told host Steve Kraske that he hoped a bill pre-filed Dec. 1 by Sen. Doug Libla (R-Poplar Bluff) passed the state legislature. […]

December 21, 2015