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Roadbuilding

House lawmakers propose one more highway funding patch while working on long-term bill

With the Highway Trust Fund set to expire this week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives have proposed a three- week patch to give them time to work on a long-term transportation funding bill. The House introduced the measure to fund and extend transportation programs through Nov. 20. Only extending the HTF by three weeks signals that lawmakers in […]

October 27, 2015

Roadbuilding

House transportation committee approves 6-year highway bill

The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved a six-year, $325 billion transportation bill. The committee announced it had unanimously approved the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 Thursday afternoon after it was introduced for markup earlier in the morning. But with an approaching October 29 deadline for the expiration of the […]

October 23, 2015

Roadbuilding

South Carolina taps Christy Hall as new DOT Secretary

Christy Hall has been working as the Acting Secretary of the South Carolina Department of Transportation since July, but the state is ready to make it official. Gov. Nikki Haley announced that she had officially appointed Hall as the state’s Secretary of Transportation, according to a SCDOT press release. Hall’s appointment is the culmination of over two decades with […]

October 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

All 19 Democratic governors join together to urge Congress to act on a highway bill soon

Every single Democratic governor in the U.S. has joined together to send Congress a letter urging lawmakers to finally pass a long-term transportation bill. The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) said in a press release that the unanimous letter—the first in years with full support—called for Congress to do more than just pass a transportation patch. The […]

October 21, 2015

Roadbuilding

Sticking Point: Endangered cacti cause rerouting of road construction in Iowa

The plans for a road set to be built in Iowa had to be changed recently because of endangered cacti growing along the planned route. The Sioux City Journal reported the Iowa Department of Natural Resources decided to accept a plan to build around the field south of Sioux City to protect the more than 100 bigroot prickly pear cactus plants […]

October 20, 2015

Roadbuilding

House transportation committee schedules transportation bill markup

At least one committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has signaled it’s ready to make a move on a transportation bill by putting a markup on the schedule for next week. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) announced in a press release that the committee has scheduled a markup of surface transportation […]

October 15, 2015

Roadbuilding

Michigan DOT lets public pick I-275 lane closure plan during construction

The Michigan Department of Transportation put lane closure plan options up to a public vote for an upcoming Interstate 275 project and will proceed with the most popular option selected. The winning option, as tabulated from 3,765 responses and receiving 87 percent of the vote, will close and detour one direction of interstate traffic at […]

October 15, 2015

Roadbuilding

AAA poll finds 70% of Americans want Congress to spend more on roads

Nearly three-fourths of Americans are ready for Congress to finally increase the amount of money that gets spent on roads and bridges, according to a new poll from AAA. The poll found 70 percent of Americans are in favor of the federal government spending more on the country’s infrastructure. Moreover, only 38 percent think Congress is doing enough to make sure roads, […]

October 14, 2015

Roadbuilding

Lack of funding front and center in ARTBA Student Transportation Video Contest winners

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association named two students the winners of the fifth edition of the organization’s Student Transportation Video Contest. ARTBA announced that Maryland high school student De’Jia Long-Hillie and University of North Texas undergraduate Alexis Gamboa were named the winners of this year’s contest. ARTBA said the goal of the contest is […]

October 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

Optimizing pavement levels of service

A pavement’s level of service is a measure that combines a pavement’s design criteria – such as freeway, primary arterial, collector and local street or road—with traffic conditions such as speed, travel time, freedom to maneuver, user comfort and convenience, traffic interruptions and safety. As pavement performance and durability impacts a highway’s level of service […]

October 9, 2015

Roadbuilding

Drunk man falls into pothole, is buried alive beneath roller by road workers in India

Two construction workers have been arrested in connection with the death of a man in India after they allegedly buried him alive while repairing a road. According to CNN,  Latori Barman, a farmer in the rural Katni district of India’s Madhya Pradesh state, was walking home the night of September 18 when he fell into a large […]

October 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

Virginia DOT gets $55.5 million in extra federal funds for road work

The Federal Highway Administration recently reallocated $55.5 million in federal funds to Virginia that will go toward repaving 400 miles of roadways and improving 17 Interstate bridges across the state. The money was initially allocated to other states, but the FHWA reviews funding each fall to see which states will be able to put the federal funding to […]

October 8, 2015