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RIDOT asks FHWA to rescind TIGER grant

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has asked the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to rescind its Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant for the Rhode Island Travel Plaza and Transit Center. The grant was for $9 million. RIDOT said it decided to pull the application following concerns from project area residents as well […]

March 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

Nonprofit steps in to save Craighead Bridge in Pa. from demolition

Workin’ Bridges, a new national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving greenbelts and historic truss bridges, recently applied to Cumberland County to take ownership of Craighead Bridge in South Middleton Township, Pa., to save it from demolition, The Sentinel reports. Craighead Bridge, which was built in 1899, is an iron truss bridge that spans the Yellow Breeches Creek on […]

March 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

USDOT awards $1.9 billion in research, innovation grants to 14 small businesses

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded $1.96 million to 14 U.S. small businesses through its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program, an annual program aimed at tapping into “the power of small businesses” to create solutions to some of the department’s top challenges. The Volpe Center administers the SBIR program, which is mandated […]

March 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

AASHTO appoints new committee and council leaders in “sweeping” change to expert panels

American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) President and Maine Department of Transportation commissioner David Bernhardt has named multiple new chair positions for its various committees and councils in what the association calls the “biggest changes in decades” to those groups. Last November the association’s board of directors vowed to “adopt an extensive revamping of its […]

March 21, 2017

Roadbuilding

SDDOT begins final phase of Mount Rushmore Road project

On March 15, members of the Rapid City Area Chamber of Commerce and the Mount Rushmore Road Group gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony marking the beginning of the third and final phase of construction on Mount Rushmore Road, NBC Newscenter 1 reports. The South Dakota Department of Transportation project includes urban grading, storm and sewer installations, and the […]

March 21, 2017

Roadbuilding

Caltrans wins innovation award for QuickMap mobile app

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently received an award for the “most innovative team” by Public Sector Partners during the Government Transformation and Innovation event as a result of the agency’s QuickMap mobile app QuickMap allows motorists to view closures and traffic incidents as well as other travel information. “QuickMap connects motorists to the information […]

March 21, 2017

Roadbuilding

Mississippi DOT video series explains agency functions, including funding sources

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) has created a video series that highlights the “transparency and accountability” of the department for Mississippi taxpayers, with a heavy emphasis on funding sources. The videos use a simplistic, “hand drawn” means of animation to highlight specific data points, such as the breakdown of federal and state funding for […]

March 21, 2017

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Vögele launches Super 1700-3i, 1703-3i universal class pavers

Vögele launched two new universal class 8-foot pavers at the 2017 ConExpo show with the Super 1700-3i tracked paver and Super 1703-3i wheeled paver. The machines offer several new features that are firsts for the North American market. The company says the machines are designed for work in both confined conditions and on highway jobsites, […]

March 20, 2017

Roadbuilding

Colorado DOT uses giant grenade at seat belt safety campaign launch

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) used a 9-foot-tall grenade at the launch of its seat belt safety campaign to represent “the dangers that unbuckled passengers post in a crash.” “An unbuckled passenger can be just as deadly” is the message spray painted across its seat-belt-material surface. The grenade, which represents the start of CDOT’s […]

March 20, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA graduates 14 transportation construction pros in second round of safety certification program

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation announces 14 additional transportation construction professionals have finished its Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals (SCTPP) program. Fifty-five were in the SCTPP “inaugural class” that finished in January. ARTBA launched the program in fall 2016 as a means of creating a safety benchmark for “future civil engineering and […]

March 20, 2017

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Georgia DOT workers ask drivers to slow down in work zones

In a recent report from WJBF TV, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) workers asked drivers around the state to consider the high risk they put road workers in when they drive fast through work zones. The message comes after several deadly accidents occurred in work zones in the Central Savannah River Area, the station reports. DOT […]

March 20, 2017

Roadbuilding

GM veteran Greg Martin named COO, executive director of Together for Safer Roads

Greg Martin, former head of global public policy for General Motors, has been named chief operating officer and executive director of Together for Safer Roads (TSR), a coalition of private sector companies with the goal of reducing deaths and injuries from traffic crashes. “Safe roads are important to our families, communities and our businesses and […]

March 17, 2017