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Tag: Department of Transportation: Page 19
Roadbuilding
Most commuters happy with new beltline signs
So far most drivers in Madison, Wisconsin, have been happy with the Department of Transportationās new beltline signs. The DOT says the signs estimate travel times using detectors that track bluetooth signals coming from cars and/or cell phones. That information is then fired off to DOT computers in Milwaukee. āThe detector calculates the time it [ā¦]
October 27, 2014
Roadbuilding
More states ban ET-Plus guardrail system
The list of state department of transportations to have removed the controversial guardrail end-terminal model (ET-Plus) from its approved highway-products list continues to grow. Ten states (and counting) Ā have now removed the model, including Vermont, Hawaii, Colorado,Ā Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon and Virginia. The ET-Plus model has a steel fixture that is meant [ā¦]
October 24, 2014
Roadbuilding
ADA Angst over pavement preservation
Pavement preservation stakeholders in the United States are concerned that a reinterpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act last year by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will lead to disruption of low-cost pavement preservation programs in this country. The technical advisory requires that curb ramps and other upgrades [ā¦]
October 9, 2014
Roadbuilding
Hacked construction signs are no laughing matter
Some may see it as a practical joke, while others know itās no laughing matter. Some jokester thought it would be funny to break into the back of an electric construction sign on an Alaskan roadway. The person changed the message on the sign to read āmoney over the b-word.ā The sign caught the attention [ā¦]
October 7, 2014
Roadbuilding
Should more DOTs use a āzipper mergeā?
The Michigan Department of Transportation will be the latest to try out the zipper merge system. MDOT hopes the system will help traffic move through construction areas at a faster pace. With the current system, the delays caused by traffic jams has become almost unbearable for drivers. The zipper system is supposed to encourage drivers [ā¦]
September 30, 2014
Roadbuilding
Hawaii DOT to pay over $1 million for stormwater violations
The Hawaii Department of Transportation will pay a $1.2 million penalty for federal Clean Water Act stormwater violations at the Honolulu and Kalaeloa harbors on Oahu. This comes after an inspection inĀ 2008 found trash and chemicals on HDOT land could enter the water through runoff. The $1.2 million in penalties will be divided equally between [ā¦]
September 18, 2014
Roadbuilding
Foxx announces 72 TIGER 2014 recipients
The Department of Transportation (DOT) will provide $600 million for 72 transportation projects in 46 states and the District of Columbia from its TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) 2014 program. The DOT received 797 eligible applications from 49 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Thatās a huge increase from the 585 applications [ā¦]
September 18, 2014
Roadbuilding
DOT loans $950 million to Florida highway project
The federal government has decided to loan $950 million to Florida for use on a project to expand the stateās heavily-used Interstate 4 highway way in the Orlando area. Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) is backing the loan which will ultimately be used to widen 21 miles of Interstate 4 and add four [ā¦]
September 12, 2014
Roadbuilding
DOT only taken half of bridge safety measures required by MAP-21 law
Only 12 of the 24 bridge safety actions required by the current MAP-21 highway funding law have been implemented by the Federal Highway Administration, according toĀ a report released Aug. 26Ā by the DOTās Office of the Inspector General. The agency also hasnāt fully addressed the 16 recommendations made by the OIG in recent years, according to [ā¦]
September 2, 2014
Roadbuilding
Drunk driving deaths down in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has said deaths and injuries caused from drunken drivers have dropped dramatically over the past year. The number of fatalities in alcohol-related crashes in Wisconsin have dropped a whopping 47 percent from 348 in 2003 to 185 in 2013. The number of injuries fell 59 percent, from 6,445 in 2003 [ā¦]
August 21, 2014
Roadbuilding
DOT owes Palm Beach over $300K
In 2010 the Florida Department of Transportation paid Palm Beach $1.046 million when it took all but 1,598 square feet of a 14,744-square-foot parcel at the southeast corner of the Flagler Memorial Bridge to make room for a replacement bridge. The town would go on to sue the DOT, saying that amount wasnāt enough. After [ā¦]
August 20, 2014
Roadbuilding
Highway Trust Fund 2014: Timeline of Events
It felt like an eternity went by before Congress passed a bill to fund the Highway Trust Fund through May 2015. Unfortunately, for or as long as it took, nobody ended up happy with the outcome. Congress had months to work out a long-term deal and all they could agree on is a short-term plan [ā¦]
August 15, 2014
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