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Indiana DOT announces $80 million in federal transportation funding grants

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced that $80 million in federal transportation grants will go to 64 cities, towns, and counties in rural Indiana for infrastructure improvements, according to a report by the Washington Times Herald. “Over the last decade, Indiana has demonstrated a commitment to investing in infrastructure that is nearly unmatched,” Indiana Lt. […]

October 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

New Canandaigua Road bridge opens over Erie Canal in New York

The new Canandaigua Road bridge over the Erie Canal in Macedon, New York, opened October 1, the Times of Wayne County reports. The new steel bridge is supported by two piers and features two 11-foot travel lanes with 4-foot shoulders on each side and a 5-foot concrete sidewalk on the west side that connects the Erie Canalway […]

October 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

APAC-Kansas donates Roadtec paver to spur interest in diesel technician careers

APAC-Kansas Inc., an Oldcastle company, donated a 2003 Roadtec asphalt paver valued at $20,000 to Salina Area Technical College and treated students students and faculty to a BBQ lunch, ksal.com reports. Mike Warren, equipment manager for APAC-Kansas in Salina, and area manager Jason Heis told the news agency that the company wanted to donate the paver […]

October 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Mississippi DOT takes lawmakers out to see deteriorating road and bridge conditions

In an effort to help lawmakers better understand why funding is needed to repair Mississippi’s roads and bridges, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) took a group of them out to several trouble spots duing the summer of 2016, wtok.com reports. “If we continue to operate under the same level of funding that we’re operating at today, then what you see […]

October 6, 2016

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Ala. county replacing 5 bridges with funding from state’s transportation rehab program

Lauderdale County, Alabama, is ready to accept bids on five bridge replacement projects that are set to begin in early 2017, the Times Daily reports. The projects will be funded through the $15 million the county received for road and bridge projects from the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program (ATRIP), which was approved by the Alabama Legislature in […]

October 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Last piece of world’s highest bridge set in place in China

The CCTV News video below shows the last section of the Beipanjiang Bridge being set in place. Suspended 565 meters (1,854 feet) above the Nizhu River Canyon in China where the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces meet, the bridge will be the highest in the world. The bridge, which was officially completed on September 3 took as many as […]

October 4, 2016

Roadbuilding

Time-lapse captures 6-month construction of Cass Road Bridge in Michigan

The time-lapse video below, by Team Elmer’s TV, shows the six-month-long construction of the Cass Road Bridge in Traverse County, Michigan. The new, two-lane bridge reopened to traffic after a ribbon cutting ceremony September 21. Grand Traverse County Road Commission Manager Jim Cook told the Traverse City Record-Eagle that traffic would be able to cross the new bridge within an […]

October 3, 2016

Roadbuilding

NCDOT opens bridge spanning future Winston-Salem Northern Beltway

The Walkertown-Guthrie Road bridge over the future Winston-Salem Northern Beltway was completed last week, reopening an important secondary road connection in eastern Forsyth County that had been closed since January 2016, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. Pat Ivey, division engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation in Forsyth County, told the news agency that the bridge […]

September 30, 2016

Roadbuilding

Kansas Turnpike Authority raising 10 bridges over Turnpike/I-35

The Kansas Turnpike Authority awarded a contract of close to $3.7 million to Burns & McDonnell of Kansas City to begin work on increasing the clearance level of 10 bridges crossing over the Turnpike/Interstate 35 between south Wichita and the Oklahoma border, ksn.com reports. Each bridge will be lifted to provide at least 15 feet, 9 inches of […]

September 29, 2016

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Route 66 will soon become a testing ground for solar sidewalks and roads

Route 66 will soon become the testing ground for an experiment that developers hope may change our roadways in the future. Curbed reports that hexagonal glass panels manufactured by Solar Roadways will be laid over a sidewalk near a rest stop in Conway, Missouri, in early December. According to Missouri Department of Transportation staff, this will […]

September 26, 2016

Roadbuilding

California governor signs bill to allow bridge construction over creek with protected fish

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill September 13 that will allow Shasta County to proceed with its plans for a bridge over Spring Creek, a tributary of the Fall River, that has been stalled for some time, KRCR News reports. Assembly Bill 1845, which was sponsored by Assemblyman Brian Dahle, grants a one-time authorization for Shasta County to build […]

September 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Concrete Industry Management seeks donations for its 2017 World of Concrete Auction

The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program is seeking donations for its 2017 CIM Auction, which will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the World of Concrete show. The silent auction will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the live auction beginning at 1 p.m. “The proceeds from the 2017 CIM Auction […]

September 22, 2016