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LaHood to continue as Transportation Secretary

United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he plans to remain in his position for an indefinite period during President Barack Obama’s second term, Bloomberg reported. While the status of other cabinet members is definite, LaHood’s has remained uncertain. The White House has designated new leaders for the State, Defense and Treasury departments, identifying several […]

January 28, 2013

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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

Business

Report: Road construction to see only slight improvement in 2013

Despite the ongoing economic recovery, the U.S. road construction market is tough going and will only slightly improve in the new year, according to a new report. SBI, a division of MarketResearch.com, recently released its U.S. Road, Bridge and Tunnel Construction Market report, which predicts “only slight growth through 2014” and a market growth over […]

January 3, 2013

Business

ARTBA predicts modest growth for transportation construction in 2013

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) 2013 United States Transportation Construction Market Forecast predicts modest growth in 2013, with the construction infrastructure market seeing a 3-percent increase from $126.5 billion to $130.3 billion. The majority of this growth is expected to come from highway and street pavements, private work for driveways and parking […]

December 17, 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

Roadbuilding

Pavement work on I-70 in Kansas City begins

Construction on interstate will continue on various nights through June.

March 2, 2012

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Pavement work on I-70 in Kansas City begins

Pavement work will close lanes of I-70 in the Kansas City area beginning Friday, March 2. Starting at 8 p.m. Friday, workers will remove damaged concrete and replace it with asphalt in the center lane of westbound I-70 over Manchester Trafficway at mile marker 7. The two left lanes will be closed until work is […]

March 2, 2012

Roadbuilding

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

For a newspaper in this day to put the effort and resources into covering what can often be shrugged off as just one of those things – road construction – is something I truly hope the fine residents of New Hampshire appreciate.

February 17, 2012

Roadbuilding

2003, here we come!

Here’s one of  those sentences that you can’t help but feel hit you in the face. “To put it in perspective, in 2012 we will nearly return to 2003 levels of construction in current dollars.” Nearly? So what is being put into perspective?  It’s FMI’s latest forecast for construction put in place which calls for […]

October 6, 2011

Pickups

Cooper S/T MAXX Bedrock

Bedrock gets its first true off-pavement test with Cooper S/T Maxx tires underneath

June 24, 2011

Technology

A new white paper: Jobs in the Asphalt Pavement Industry

The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) has released a new white paper, Jobs in the Asphalt Pavement Industry: A Profile of the Men and Women Who Build Our Nation’s Infrastructure. The document highlights the varied jobs that are a part of asphalt road construction and the collective impact that the industry has on the rest of […]

June 7, 2010