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East span of the Bay Bridge is born

Over the past three-and-a-half years, workers have been busy constructing the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The project has cost more than $6 billion already and was necessary after a part of this part of the bridge collapsed in 1989 after an earthquake. This new span of the bridge has been […]

January 9, 2013

Business

U.S. needs new bridges but states lack funding

The average age of the 600,000 bridges in the United States is 43 years old, according to a new report from the Washington Post. And considering that bridges are built to last about 50 years, that means a great deal of them will soon need to be replaced. In fact, as the Post reports, 70,000 […]

January 3, 2013

Roadbuilding

Franz Kafka on operating an excavator while drunk

Franz Kafka was without doubt one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was also a bureaucrat who wrote about “the perils of excavating in quarries while drunk.” The writer of The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle dealt with some seriously disturbing stuff in the human mind. The bureaucrat worked in worker’s compensation In Franz Kafka: The […]

January 2, 2013

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Japanese tunnel collapses, kills 9

Aging bolts are a possible culprit behind the collapse of concrete ceiling slabs that fell from the roof of a highway tunnel in Japan Monday, crushing three moving vehicles, killing nine people and injuring at least two others, USA Today reported. The Sasago Tunnel is 3 miles long and links the capital to central Japan. […]

December 4, 2012

Business

Chicago-St. Louis high-speed rail construction could create 6,200 jobs

A high-speed rail project that will connect Chicago, Illinois to St. Louis, Missouri has been cleared for construction, according to a report by CivSourceOnline.com. The project’s environmental impact plan passed muster with environmental feasibility standard and received the OK from state and federal officials. Amtrak trains are being considered to run the roughly 300-mile route […]

November 21, 2012

Business

New York Times weighs in on the gas tax

Gas tax, federal motor fuels tax, highway construction, Eisenhower, federal interstate program.

August 21, 2012

Business

Weekend reading: August 10, 2012

Water infrastructure, The Big Thirst, Charles Fishman

August 9, 2012

Roadbuilding

The city under your feet

Under many of our big cities is another city. A place of tunnels and sewers and open spaces. Steve Duncan studies and photographs these places. If I am the Roadologist, Steve is the Sewerologist. In fact he calls his postgraduate studies work “sewerology.”  It’s the sort of idea that can change your city experience. If […]

August 6, 2012

Business

Federal spending cuts crimp economy

Federal spending, infrastructure, construction spending,

July 31, 2012

Construction Equipment

Infrastructure on the cheap

Infrastructure construction, roads, concrete slabs, New York Times, San Antonio

July 31, 2012

Construction Equipment

Raise the gas tax…or let big brother track your every move

Road construction, gas taxes, GPS, San Francisco

July 20, 2012

Technology

Why we need to harden the grid

Electrical grid, infrastructure

July 11, 2012