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Roadbuilding

Best bridge in Georgia spans Big Curry Creek in Jefferson

A bridge for Highway 82/15 Alternate spanning Big Curry Creek in Jefferson has received the 2015 Georgia Partnership for Transportation Quality (GPTQ) award for the best Bridge Deck Steel Cover statewide. The GPTQ is a partnership between the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), Georgia Highway Contractors Association and the American Council of Engineering Companies of […]

October 21, 2015

Roadbuilding

South Carolina DOT worker dies after being backed over by dump truck

A South Carolina Department of Transportation worker died Tuesday after he was struck by a coworker-driven dump truck. According to WBTW, 51-year-old Henry Norris was walking to a piece of equipment on a jobsite when his coworker began to back up a dump truck. Norris was hit as his coworker was trying to back onto Mayberry Road in Darlington […]

October 21, 2015

Roadbuilding

World’s first accelerated bridge structural testing lab, the BEAST, launched at Rutgers

Rutgers University has created an outdoor lab that can simulate extreme stress conditions for bridges in an accelerated environment that will allow researchers to examine 10 to 15 years of effects in less than a year and in real time. The Bridge Evaluation and Structural Testing (BEAST) laboratory, which is part of the university’s Center […]

October 20, 2015

Roadbuilding

South Carolina DOT implements flood repair plan for highways

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is implementing a Road Repair Plan to repair bridges and highways damaged by heavy flooding earlier this month. The plan, available here, breaks down the repairs by county and provides an expected completion date for each. “This is our road map to restore the state’s highway system and reestablish […]

October 20, 2015

Roadbuilding

Sticking Point: Endangered cacti cause rerouting of road construction in Iowa

The plans for a road set to be built in Iowa had to be changed recently because of endangered cacti growing along the planned route. The Sioux City Journal reported the Iowa Department of Natural Resources decided to accept a plan to build around the field south of Sioux City to protect the more than 100 bigroot prickly pear cactus plants […]

October 20, 2015

Roadbuilding

House introduces $325 billion Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015

Congressman Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, on Friday introduced the $325 billion Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform (STRR) Act of 2015 as a bi-partisan long-term solution for funding transportations needs. Co-authoring the bill is Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon), Sam Graves (R-Missouri) and Eleanor Norton (D-Washington, D.C.) The current patch for transportation […]

October 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Nevada has a new website for tracking road construction projects across the state

Drivers in Nevada have a new resource to track road construction projects across the Silver State. The Nevada Department of Transportation just launched a new website at estip.nevadadot.com to give information on most of the major current and future transportation and transit construction projects in the state. “The projects listed in this website not only keep Nevadans safe […]

October 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Nebraska launches Innovation Task Force for Transportation

The Nebraska Department of Roads has launched a new task force to focus on how the public and private sectors can work together to tackle transportation issues in the state. The NDOR announced the creation of the Innovation Task Force for Transportation October 15, with Director Kyle Schneweis touting how he would work with the task force in […]

October 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Florida DOT forms task force for I-75 multimodal transportation solutions

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has formed a 22-member task force to study and development recommendations for multimodal transportation solutions for a six-county area through which Interstate 75 passes. The Interstate 75 (I-75) Relief Task Force is to develop options to improve safety and reliability, relieve congestion, improve connectivity across the state and region […]

October 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Indiana Gov. Pence launches $1 billion road funding proposal with no tax increases

Gov. Mike Pence has launched the 21st Century Crossroads road funding proposal he claims would open up $1 billion over four years without raising taxes. The funds would come from a combination of five sources: reserves, budget appropriations, “next generation” trust fund, new bond financing and existing bond refinancing. “These additional funds will help (the […]

October 16, 2015

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island DOT enters agreement to repair and update drainage systems, pay $315,000 penalty

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has entered an agreement with the Department of Justice to “repair, restore and improve” the state’s drainage system and pay a $315,000 civil penalty as a result of years of unchecked pollution from highway runoff impacting the Narragansett Bay and other bodies of water throughout the state. RIDOT had […]

October 16, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri University of Science and Technology hosting Transportation Infrastructure Conference

The Missouri University of Science and Technology is set to host its fourth annual Transportation Infrastructure Conference in December. The university announced that the December 4 conference would focus on new advances in road construction materials, resilient structural materials, non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring of roads and bridges. Some of the featured speakers at the […]

October 16, 2015