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Roadbuilding
Opening of Maine’s Sarah Mildred Long Bridge delayed again
The projected opening of the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge has been postponed again, possibly until late December 2017. According to the Bangor Daily News, Maine Department of Transportation Press Secretary Ted Talbot said project administrators are working with its general contractor, Cianbro Corp., to identify what has caused the opening to be delayed several [
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December 8, 2017
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Roadbuilding
TxDOT breaks ground on I-69/I-610 West Loop Interchange
On November 28 the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) held a groundbreaking ceremony for reconstruction of the I-69/I-610 West Loop Interchange project, The Houston Chronicle reports. In attendance were Texas Transportation Chairman J. Bruce Bugg, Jr.; U.S. Congressman John Culberson; Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; State Rep. Sarah Davis; TxDOT Houston District Engineer Quincy Allen; and other [
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December 7, 2017
Roadbuilding
Residents blame flats on highway department’s choice in gravel
Some people in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, are complaining about the material being used on local roads, claiming it’s puncturing their tires, cbcnews.com reports. “We’re probably getting 40 tires a month with these rocks in them,” Dustin McCulley, who has owned Endurance Automo tive in Dawson City since 2004, told the news agency, adding that [
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December 6, 2017
Gravel road off Klondike Highway Yukon
Roadbuilding
Pre-cast concrete key to Sarah Mildred Long Bridge construction
Engineers believe the $158.5 million Sarah Mildred Long Bridge project, connecting Portsmouth, N.H., with Kittery, Maine, may be the first vertical-lift bridge to use precast-concrete segmental towers, the Engineering News-Record reports. Construction of the new bridge carrying U.S. Route 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River began in 2015. The bridge is slated to open by [
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December 5, 2017
Sarah Mildred Long Bridge
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Iowa DOT says I-74 bridge project on track, with parts ahead of schedule
During the first of many project updates, the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) told the Davenport City Council that all parts of the new Interstate 74 bridge project spanning the Mississippi River are on track or ahead of schedule, even though it doesn’t look like much is going on, the Quad-City Times reports. Most [
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December 5, 2017
Interstate 74 bridge Iowa DOT project
Roadbuilding
ADOT reduces speed on portion of I-40 after wrong asphalt mix applied
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has reduced the speed limit on Interstate 40 between Parks and Bellemont from 75 to 55 miles per hour because of slick road conditions. According to the Arizona Daily Sun, the department released a statement saying that the slick road conditions were the result of the wrong asphalt mix [
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December 5, 2017
Roadbuilding
Worker seriously injured on lower level of Bayonne Bridge
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reported that the Bayonne Bridge was closed to traffic in both directions on Tuesday afternoon after a worker was seriously injured, according to silive.com. The injured worker is part of the crew that is dismantling the lower level of the span as part of the “Raise [
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December 1, 2017
Bayonne Bridge
Roadbuilding
Foley Equipment holds grand opening in $19M HQ in Wichita
Foley Equipment of Wichita, Kansas, recently moved into a new $19 million, 146,000-square-foot headquarters. The family-owned company celebrated with a grand opening on November 17. The Caterpillar construction equipment dealer has grown from a single store in 1940 to operations spanning 144 counties throughout Kansas and western Missouri. Foley broke ground on the facility’s [
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November 29, 2017
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Roadbuilding
VDOT breaks ground on $3.7B I-66 expansion project
A groundbreaking ceremony on Monday marked the beginning of a $3.7 billion dollar highway project that will expand Interstate 66 to 10 lanes — three regular and two express lanes in each direction — outside of the Beltway in northern Virginia, wtop.com reports.The project includes plans for major interchange improvements, park-and-ride lots, and accommodations for bicyclists and pedestrians. [
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November 29, 2017
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Dealers
Equipment Roundup: Cat unveils Next Gen excavators; Chevy unveils Colorado ZR2 AEV; <75 hp engine technology; Inside Cat 988K XE development; The best GM trucks of SEMA 2017
Cat unveils 3 20-ton Next Gen excavators: ‘Platform for the future’ boasts new hydraulic tech, remote start from phone app How cool is this: An excavator that you can start with an app on your smart phone. That’s just a tiny fraction of the digital razzle-dazzle Cat showed us last week in the most significant [
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November 28, 2017
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Roadbuilding
Business Roundup: Cat accuses Wirtgen of patent infringement; P2P rentals, online equipment sales aren’t here to disrupt dealers; LiuGong global dealer conference; Thompson Cat adds Prinoth Panther
Cat fires back at Wirtgen with patent infringement complaint; ITC investigating The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Nov. 22 said it will investigate allegations by Caterpillar that German manufacturers Wirtgen GmbH and Joseph Vögele AG violated patent laws. The probe is based on a complaint filed by Cat on October 26, a complaint that is nearly [
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November 28, 2017
Worker contractor using phone Cat Caterpillar machine
Roadbuilding
Implosion demolishes final two piers of old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
On November 11, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) imploded the last two remaining piers (E17 and E18) of the 13 marine foundations that were part of the original east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, NBC Bay Area reports. “It went well, it went according to plan,” Alejandro Lopez of Caltrans told the [
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November 28, 2017
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