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Roadbuilding

USDOT awards $487.1 million in TIGER grant funds

The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $487.1 million to 41 highway, bridge, rail, and other projects through its Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program, with more than 64 percent of the funds went to rural projects, the Engineering News-Record reports. Approximately 450 applications were submitted. According to the news agency, Jeff Davis, a […]

March 13, 2018

Roadbuilding

VIDEO, PHOTOS: N.Y. sends out army of snowplows to combat nor’easters

New York’s state and local agencies have been pulling out all the stops to keep roads clear after two nor’easters pounded the state in one week, dumping as much of 26 inches of snow in some areas. They’ve been deploying tow plows, which can plow two lanes at a time. They’ve also been sending plows […]

March 12, 2018

Roadbuilding

‘Dozer Dave’ from TV’s Gold Rush, signs asphalt slab funding petition at World of Asphalt

Dave Turin, “Dozer Dave” from the hit TV show Gold Rush, offered his support for infrastructure funding by signing an asphalt slab petition at the World of Asphalt and AGG1 show last week in Houston. “My heart and my passion is building roads. I grew up building roads and my family still builds roads,” Turin […]

March 12, 2018

Technology

Cat’s new eRoutes app brings paving contractors real time truck tracking on their phones

Caterpillar will soon launch a new application for smartphones and the web that allows paving contractors to track the location and productivity of haul trucks as they travel between plant and jobsite. Cat’s Dann Rawls previewed the new app, dubbed eRoutes, during a quick media presentation at the World of Asphalt show in Houston earlier […]

March 9, 2018

Roadbuilding

Time-lapse captures reconstruction of 225-year-old bridge — the oldest in N.J.

The Work Zone Cam time-lapse video below shows the reconstruction and reopening of the oldest stone arch bridge in Princeton, New Jersey, the 225-year-old Stony Brook Bridge on Route 206. The bridge partially collapsed after heavy rains in February 2016 and was closed, NJ.com reports. Emergency repairs allowed it to open temporarily, but the damage […]

March 9, 2018

Roadbuilding

Cranes lift girders into place on Penn.’s Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway bridge

The video below was taken on February 20 and captures the placement of the first steel girders on the bridge piers of the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway project (CSVT) bridge. PennLive reports that the 4,500-foot-long bridge will carry traffic over the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in Union Township, Union County, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department […]

March 8, 2018

Roadbuilding

Mass. town contracts roadway study to determine ‘best bang for buck’ in needed treatments

In 2017, Sudbury, Massachusetts. hired Vanasse Hangen Brustlin to evaluate its pavements, sidewalks and guardrails to prioritize needs and find the funding needed to fix them, the Sudbury Patch reports. The results of the study were released in September 2017 in a 197-page report, Pavement, Sidewalk, and Guardrail Management Study. Dan Nason, Department of Public Works(DPW) […]

March 8, 2018

Roadbuilding

$666M reconstruction of non-toll I-35E to begin in Dallas

Work is ready to begin on a $666 million reconstruction of a section of Interstate 35 East in Dallas, which will involve no toll lanes. The Southern Gateway project is estimated to take four years to rebuild and widen I-35E and U.S. Highway 67 in southern Dallas County, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. […]

March 7, 2018

Roadbuilding

182-year-old Ky. covered bridge gets temporary repairs after flood damage

Kentucky transportation officials report that Dover Covered Bridge, which was built in 1835 in Mason County in northeastern Kentucky, has been temporarily stabilized after it was damaged by major flooding along Lee Creek in 2017. Two 12,000-pound steel support beams that had been added to the bridge in the 1980s were torn off by the […]

March 7, 2018

Roadbuilding

ASCE: To fix U.S. infrastructure, fix the budget process

A broken budget process must be fixed if Congress is going to finally confront and fix the nation’s ailing infrastructure, according to a new statement released by the American Society of Civil Engineers. “For decades, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass a budget on time, speeding toward budget deadlines as if we have miles of […]

March 6, 2018

Roadbuilding

La. DOTD seeks first P3 venture for Belle Chasse Tunnel and Bridge replacement

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) Secretary Shawn D. Wilson announced that the department is moving forward with plans to solicit partners for its very first Public Private Partnership (P3). The P3 venture would provide the estimated $122 million needed to replace the Belle Chasse Tunnel and Bridge, which are the primary access points […]

March 6, 2018

Roadbuilding

Chao defends Trump infrastructure plan; Senate passage uncertain in 2018

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao defended the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan before a Senate committee March 1, where she met resistance from Democrats over the plan’s call for speeding up environmental permits and its reliance on private funding. Meanwhile, some top Republican senators are saying passage of the plan is not likely this year, as […]

March 5, 2018