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PHOTOS: The equipment, trucks and booths of the 2017 APWA Public Works Expo

The American Public Works Association’s 2017 International Public Works Expo in Orlando, Florida, this week featured a variety of equipment, new technology and services covering the entire public works industry. Here is a gallery of photos we shot on the show floor during the week.

August 30, 2017

Roadbuilding

Record-setting Harvey causes emergency road closures in La.

Flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey, which made a second landfall August 30 on the Louisiana-Texas border, has led to road closures in southwestern Louisiana due to flooding. According to the National Weather Service, Harvey has set a preliminary record, with more than 50 inches of rain, the most rainfall measured from a single storm in […]

August 30, 2017

Roadbuilding

Illinois Tollway’s Lao receives national engineering award

The Gintong Pamana Awards Foundation has presented Illinois Tollway Deputy Chief of Program Implementation Clarita Lao with its 2017 Panday Pira Award for Outstanding Achievements in Engineering. The award recognizes “Filipino Americans nationwide whose accomplishments inspire, motivate and sustain others in the Filipino community.” The group recognized Lao for her engineering career accomplishments spanning more […]

August 30, 2017

Roadbuilding

Over 500 roads in Texas face flooding conditions from Harvey

More than 500 roads covering a large portion of southeastern Texas are closed due to flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. The affected area extends north from Corpus Christi along the coast up to Port Arthur and extends west through and beyond Houston. Harvey initially made landfall Friday as […]

August 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

Cemex supplies concrete for new Route 89 bridge in Arizona

Cemex announced that it supplied the concrete for the new Cameron Bridge, a part of the Route 89 reconstruction project in Arizona. With a span of more than 650 feet, the bridge includes four highway traffic lanes, a pedestrian underpass, and additional concrete flatwork that was done to improve traffic flow and road safety. Cemex […]

August 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

Oregon DOT & Land Conservation award $2 million for local community transportation, land projects

The grants are for funding transportation and land use planning projects for Oregon communities and valued at roughly $2 million. Details on Equipment World.

August 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

Iowa DOT reveals new license plate design

The Iowa Department of Transportation has revealed a new license plate design after the agency opened up public voting on three options for the new look online and at its State Fair booth. The City and Country Reboot design won with about 39 percent of the total votes. “Iowans made their voices heard in the […]

August 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

First span of NY’s Cuomo Bridge opens to traffic

The first span of the new Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, previously known as the Tappan Zee Bridge, has opened to traffic. On Aug. 25 all four lanes of westbound traffic shifted from the existing bridge to the new span. Later this fall the four eastbound lanes will be shifted onto the new structure to […]

August 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

West Virginia Governor, DOH marks completion of Route 10 project

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and Secretary of Transportation Tom Smith along with other state, federal and local leaders recently marked the opening of the final 6.7 miles of the upgraded four-lane section of WV Route 10 between Logan and Man. The project, which cost roughly $198 million, begins north of the Rita Mall and […]

August 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

Timeline for completion of Gordie Howe International Bridge extended to 2023

Due to changing specifications and the complex bidding process, construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Mich. probably won’t be completed until 2023, the Windsor Star reports. The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority informed the three groups competing for the project that their detailed bids will not be required until next year. […]

August 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

Mass. breaks ground on Natick multimodal project

Massachusetts officials recently broke ground on a multimodal improvement project in the town of Natick that is funded through the state’s Complete Street Funding Program. The project will update 14 intersections and install pedestrian hybrid beacons, high visibility crosswalks, pedestrian warning signage and upgraded pedestrian signal and bicycle detection equipment to increase safety and accessibility […]

August 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

Final piece of Bertha removed from Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel

The last piece of Bertha, the world’s largest tunneling machine, has been removed from Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel, marking the end of a four-month disassembly process. The machine finished its boring of the tunnel in early April, work that lasted four years. This breakthrough was roughly three years later than the original projected completion date, […]

August 25, 2017