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Connecticut DOT launches online dashboard to track progress of projects

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has launched an interactive online tool to track progress of transportation projects under the state’s Transportation Ramp-Up Program. The Transportation Ramp-Up Program, valued at $2.8 billion, represents the first step of the Let’s Go CT! program approved last year. It’s described as a “transformative strategy toward reinvesting in Connecticut’s […]

April 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

TRIP: Oklahoma drivers hit with $5 billion tab each year related to road conditions, congestion and safety issue

The Road Improvement Program’s (TRIP) latest report on Oklahoma shows bridge and road conditions, along with congestion, are costing drivers in the state an average of $2,200 a year, or $4.9 billion in total. TRIP’s “Oklahoma Transportation by the Numbers: Meeting the State’s Need for Safe, Smooth and Efficient Mobility,” indicates that 28 percent of the state’s […]

April 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Thirty-year Missouri DOT worker killed during bridge maintenance work

Missouri Department of Transportation employee Lyndon D. Ebker, 55, was struck and killed by a vehicle Thursday while flushing bridges on eastbound Route 100 near Buchheit Road on the outskirts of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ebker’s crew posted signage identifying the work and parked a dump truck fitted with an attenuator […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Foxx urges careful consideration when determining placement of roads

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is encouraging road developers to think carefully before placing a highway through the middle of a neighborhood. The Atlantic reports that Foxx’s grandparents lived such a neighborhood, and the result was a disconnection of the cut-off part of the neighborhood from the city and opportunity. Now, Foxx wants to do something about that. The news […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 11-15

This year’s theme for National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW), set for April 11-15, is “Don’t be THAT Driver: Work on Safety. Get Home Safely. Every Day.” The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will host the kick-off event for this year’s program near the 32-mile I-75 widening project outside of Toledo on April 12 at […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans partners with Waze app for Connected Citizens Program

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has partnered with the crowdsourced navigation app Waze and will contribute to the company’s Connected Citizen’s Program. In this move, Caltrans joins a growing list of state departments of transportation sharing data with Waze. These include Nebraska, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. “Combining the real-time anonymous data […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Final leg of I-75 widening from Georgia line to southwest Florida to begin in 2018

The final leg of I-75 widening from the Florida-Georgia border to the southwest region of Florida will begin in 2018, according to an announcement from Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The project involves expanding the interstate from four to six lanes from south of Jones Loop Road to U.S. 17 in Charlotte County near Punta Gorda. […]

April 6, 2016

Roadbuilding

Colorado DOT selects Flatiron/AECOM for C-470 tolled express lanes project

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has selected Flatiron/AECOM as the Apparent Selected Proposer for the 12.5-mile C-470 Tolled Express Lanes Segment 1 Design-Build project. The agency says currently more than 100,000 motorists travel over this section of C-470 each day and estimates that figure to increase by 40 percent by 2035. The project will […]

April 6, 2016

Roadbuilding

Minnesota DOT asks farmers to participate in Living Snow Fence program

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is asking farmers to participate in the agency’s Living Snow Fence Program by leaving standing corn rows, hay bales or silage bags to help reduce snow from blowing onto state highways. MnDOT is timing the announcement to coincide with planting season so farmers can incorporate their involvement into their […]

April 6, 2016

Roadbuilding

I-90 support beam collapse kills 1 worker, injures 3 in Chicago

One worker is dead and three others injured after a large beam fell from Interstate 90 in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines early Tuesday morning. According to a report from WLS TV, Illinois Tollway crews were in the process of removing beams from beneath a section of the highway over Touhy Avenue when the accident […]

April 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Texas DOT set to lower truck tolls to help reduce congestion

The Texas Transportation Commission has approved a measure that would reduce truck tolls in certain areas in an effort to move trucks off of higher volume roadways to ease congestion. The thinking is that trucks have been opting for certain roads in an effort to avoid paying tolls, and thereby exacerbating congestion issues on other […]

April 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

FHWA Administrator Nadeau helps open world’s longest floating bridge

State and local officials, along with Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Administrator Gregory Nadeau, on April 2 attended the grand opening of the SR 520 Bridge in Seattle, the longest floating bridge in the world. The bridge’s westbound lanes will open to traffic April 11, followed by the eastbound lanes opening April 25. A virtual tour […]

April 5, 2016