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Roadbuilding
Ore. expands salt use on roads after 5-year test
The Oregon Department of Transportation has expanded its use of rock salt this winter after five years of testing the snow and ice melting product. With the tests, ODOT said it saw a 27-percent drop in the average number of crashes a year on Interstate 5 and a 23-percent drop on U.S. 95. The ODOT […]
January 15, 2018
Roadbuilding
Repaving of Golden State Freeway leads to lane closures
Work continues on a $171 million repaving project for Interstate 5/Golden State Freeway. The California Department of Transportation reports the work is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2019. Drivers have been facing temporary lane closures and temporary changes in traffic patterns for the work. But Caltrans says it is limiting most of those inconveniences […]
January 2, 2018
Roadbuilding
Oregon DOT finds growing traffic congestion in Portland
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has released a report indicating that more highway improvements such as auxiliary lanes and RealTime traffic signs are needed to address increasing congestion in the Portland area. The report, “2016 Portland Region Traffic Performance Report,” looked at data from 2013 through 2015 and shows drivers, commuters and freight haulers […]
August 4, 2017
Roadbuilding
String of failures led to I-5 bridge strike, collapse in 2013, NTSB says
The collapsed section of I-5 in Washington over the Skagit River. The bridge has since been repaired. The National Transportation Safety Board blames a “series of deficiencies” on the events that led to a truck with an oversized load striking a sway brace on the bridge last May and causing it to collapse into the Skagit River, […]
July 17, 2014
Roadbuilding
Caltrans wins Pavement Pioneer Award for Perpetual Pavement projects
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has received a national Pavement Pioneer Award for the long-life asphalt pavement projects recently constructed on Interstate 5 in Northern California. Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty received the award on behalf of the agency at the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA) Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference last week in Sacramento. Mike […]
October 31, 2013
Roadbuilding
AP analysis deems 7,795 bridges both structurally deficient and fracture critical
A recent Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory has proven 7,795 — 1.2 percent — of those bridges to be both structurally deficient and fracture critical. The report also found that 65,605 of the bridges were classified only as “structurally deficient,” while 20,808 were found to be […]
September 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews move I-5 permanent replacement span into place
[Correction: The article previously noted that WSDOT expects work to be completed in early October. It has been edited to reflect the correct time frame, in mid November.) The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced Sunday that the permanent replacement bridge for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge opened to traffic over the weekend. […]
September 16, 2013
Construction Equipment
Backhoes, wheel loaders and other oversized hauls crash repeatedly into Indianapolis bridge
In order to reduce complaints surrounding the three-month-long detours around several bridges undergoing repair, the Indiana Department of transportation released the video below giving a very good reason as to why the repairs are needed. According to our sister site Better Roads, the video comes from INDOT cameras installed beneath the Virginia Avenue Bridge in Indianapolis and […]
August 12, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews complete Oregon’s Whilamut Passage Bridge four months early
[Correction: This article originally reported that the new bridges would “double highway capacity by accommodating three lanes of traffic with shoulders on each bridge.” However, the bridges will actually carry two lanes of traffic in each direction–the same as the old bridges. The incorrect statement has been removed.] Crews completed construction last week of the […]
July 29, 2013
Roadbuilding
Can your bridges withstand a hit by a heavy semi?
A disturbingly large number of America’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete (see Better Roads’ November bridge inventory). But how many are “fracture-critical?” Washington State’s collapsed I-5 bridge was fracture-critical when it was hit by a heavily loaded truck. But it is far from alone in the state of Washington in that classification and […]
July 18, 2013
Roadbuilding
More than 200 Washington bridges are fracture-critical
More than 200 of Washington state’s bridges are classified as fracture-critical and could collapse if a key component of the bridge fails, according to KUOW. Of those bridges, at least three have been struck multiple times in the past five years, putting the bridges at a higher risk of collapsing. The Interstate 5 span that […]
July 17, 2013
Roadbuilding
66,000 U.S. bridges classified as deficient in 2013
Following Transportation for America’s release of a report stating that one in nine bridges is classified as structurally deficient, CNN Money has created an interactive map to demonstrate the amount of deficient bridges in each state in 2013. According to CNN Money’s report, the average lifespan of a bridge in the U.S. is 50 years. […]
June 24, 2013
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