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Roadbuilding

Highways 2.0: Transportation’s future holds drastic changes for road builders

The Eisenhower Interstate System was a bold plan. It supercharged our economy and provided good, middle class jobs to millions of Americans for more than 40 years. It changed the face and character of America. That’s what we’re calling Highways 1.0. What followed in the footsteps of these big thinkers and world-class builders? Stasis, neglect and […]

March 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

South Carolina Senate approves $400 million transportation bill

The South Carolina Senate has approved a new transportation bill that sends $400 million to road building without raising the gas tax. The State reported that the bill would send $400 million in excess revenues to fund road projects for a year. The bill will head to the  for a vote, but the House already passed […]

March 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

FHWA releases $1.5 million in emergency relief funds for rock slide damage in Colorado, Idaho

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released emergency relief funds for repair work needed after rock slides affected highways in Colorado and Idaho in February. Colorado gets $1 million to help with work on both the eastbound and westbound sections of I-70 near Glenwood Springs. Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) officials closed the interstate in […]

March 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Tennessee DOT partners with Waze navigation app for Connected Citizen Program

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is partnering with Waze to share data as part of the crowdsourced navigation app’s Connected Citizens Program. This follows similar moves by Pennsylvania in December and Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in November. “TDOT is always looking for ways we can provide motorists with information that can make their […]

March 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

USDOT: Upwards of $2 billion in unused earmarks can be repurposed

The United States Department of Transportation has freed up about $2 billion in unused earmarks for states to put back to use on other infrastructure projects. According to USDOT, the department began to give guidance to states on how to repurpose the funds under the new Consolidated Appropriations Act 2016. The act allows states to use […]

March 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

North Carolina officials break ground on new Bonner Bridge

It took a while, but North Carolina officials finally broke ground on the new Herbert C. Bonner Bridge this week. For five years, litigation between the North Carolina Department of Transportation and environmentalists kept construction on the bridge from getting under way, according to NCDOT. But after a deal was brokered last year, officials broke […]

March 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT launches speedy pothole plan aiming for next business day repairs

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has launched an “enhanced pothole repair initiative” for March aimed at repairing an asphalt pothole “as quickly as possible of it being reported.” “We want to get asphalt in the hole as quickly as possible. If you report it in the morning, our goal is to repair it before […]

March 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

NAPA converts Young Leaders Program into IMPACT Leadership Group

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) has launched the IMPACT Leadership Group, which is a modification of its Young Leaders Program first launched in 2004. The IMPACT group (which stands for Innovative, Motivated, Passionate, Active, Connected and Teachable) aims to provide education, leadership development training and networking opportunities to “support the personal and professional growth […]

March 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

Mexico-Arizona trade corridor agreement to boost development of I-19, I-11

Mexico and Arizona have signed an agreement to collaborate on developing a trade corridor between them, an effort that will boost development of Interstate 19 and the future I-11 in addition to Mexico Highway 15. Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Director John Halikowski and Mexico’s Ministry of Communications & Transport Undersecretary of Infrastructure Raul Murrieta […]

March 9, 2016

Roadbuilding

U.S. motor vehicle deaths up 8% in 2015; highest increase in 50 years

About 38,300 people died in U.S. motor vehicle accidents in 2015. That’s an 8 percent increase over 2014 and marks the largest rise in half a century. It was the deadliest driving year since 2008, according to the National Safety Council. The NSC attributes much of the rise in traffic fatalities to a better economy and lower […]

March 9, 2016

Roadbuilding

Delaware DOT launches GATEWAY to provide detailed state transportation data

The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) has launched DelDOT GATEWAY as an online source for details about pavement projects, bridges, snow removal, traffic data and transit and rail maps, among other transportation information for the state. The agency says it created the site to “simplify the interface between the vast amount of data that the department […]

March 9, 2016

Roadbuilding

One Maryland road worker killed, another seriously injured after car crashes into work zone

One road worker was killed and another was injured recently in Maryland after a vehicle swerved into a work zone and struck two Worcester County Public Works employees. The Delmarva Daily Times reported that Scott Patrick Tatterson and Wade Kenneth Pusey were working in Stockton Feb. 22 inside a work zone on Greenville Road when a 2010 Kia tried […]

March 9, 2016