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Roadbuilding

Worker seriously injured on lower level of Bayonne Bridge

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reported that the Bayonne Bridge was closed to traffic in both directions on Tuesday afternoon after a worker was seriously injured, according to silive.com. The injured worker is part of the crew that is dismantling the lower level of the span as part of the “Raise […]

December 1, 2017

Roadbuilding

Tolls could go up for N.H. turnpike drivers

Tolls could rise on New Hampshire’s turnpike system under a proposal being considered to accelerate bridge and road work on the tollways. Tolls would rise 50 cents in Hampton, Hooksett and Bedford, and 25 cents in Dover, Rochester and Hampton Side Tolls, according to the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. Drivers with E-ZPasses would see […]

November 30, 2017

Roadbuilding

Implosion demolishes final two piers of old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

On November 11, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) imploded the last two remaining piers (E17 and E18) of the 13 marine foundations that were part of the original east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, NBC Bay Area reports. “It went well, it went according to plan,” Alejandro Lopez of Caltrans told the […]

November 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

New Brunswick covered bridge to be restored

Some Charlotte County residents who launched a campaign to make sure New Brunswick didn’t lose another covered bridge were thrilled to learn that the McGuire covered bridge in Elmsville, near St. George, will be restored. The St. Couix Courier reports that the bridge had been closed because of structural problems. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Bill Fraser […]

November 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Transportation safety certificate seeks to curb work zone deaths

Alarmed at the statistic that 50,000 deaths and injuries occur each year in or around U.S. road and bridge construction sites, a national organization has developed a safety training certificate with the goal of creating incident-free transportation work zones worldwide. So far, 111 candidates have been listed as earning the Safety Certification for Transportation Project […]

November 24, 2017

Roadbuilding

Amherst County (Va.) bridge named for fallen Vietnam War veteran

An Amherst County (Va.) bridge was dedicated in the memory of a local fallen military veteran, Pfc. Roger Lee Floyd, on the 52nd anniversary of his death in the Vietnam War, according to a report by The News & Advance. On November 12, 2017, community members, local veterans and members of the Amherst County Board […]

November 24, 2017

Roadbuilding

Pieces of N.Y.’s Tappan Zee Bridge finding use in local bridge projects

Dismantling of the 61-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge is expected to take more than a year. Bridge sections are being removed carefully and shipped on barges upriver to Albany and downriver to Perth Amboy, N.J. to be sold — concrete will be crushed for use in highway construction and the steel will be recycled. However, the […]

November 23, 2017

Roadbuilding

Mass. Turnpike project estimated at $1.2 billion, to begin in 2020

A plan to rebuild the Allston Interchange on the Massachusetts Turnpike could cost $1.2 billion with work starting in 2020, The Boston Globe reports. The project, on Interstate 90 between Boston University and the Charles River, is needed to replace the deteriorated Allston viaduct, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation says. The bridge has average daily […]

November 21, 2017

Roadbuilding

Vancouver cable-stayed bridge to get winter safety upgrade

The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure announced that, in January 2018, it will install a new cable collar system on the over the Fraser River in Greater Vancouver, B.C., to improve winter safety and reliability in January 2018, CTV News Vancouver reports. The new system, which is similar to the one on the Port […]

November 21, 2017

Roadbuilding

Iowa gas-tax hike increases local road, bridge projects

Iowa’s 10-cent gas-tax increase, enacted in March 2015, has brought in an additional $515 million for road and bridge projects, the Quad City Times reports. The additional revenue has been coming to cities and counties and must be used for critical road and bridge projects. The state has also used about half of the money […]

November 17, 2017

Roadbuilding

Crews begin dismantling old Tappan Zee Bridge

The video below shows crews at work dismantling the old Tappan Zee Bridge. A floating super crane is being used to remove large sections of the bridge and place them on barges for transport, CBS New York reports. Traffic has begun traveling on the first of two spans of the new Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge […]

November 16, 2017

Roadbuilding

Md. bridge named for Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) representatives joined elected officials and American Legion representatives to dedicate the Route 22 bridge over Interstate 95 in Aberdeen as the Alfred B. Hilton Memorial Bridge in honor of Civil War veteran Sgt. Alfred B. Hilton, the only native born Medal of Honor recipient in […]

November 15, 2017