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Virginia’s 6-year transportation program provides $9.9 billion for highway projects

The Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) has approved the most recent Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP) for $13.3 billion in highway, rail and public transportation projects. The SYIP spans the next six fiscal years (FY) starting July 1 this year. Of the total, $9.9 billion will go toward highway construction projects, with the remaining $3.4 billion […]

June 23, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri DOT workers discuss work zone crash, offer warnings

This time of year headlines are full of highway work zone accidents, mainly because of the perfect storm of transportation construction and summer travel coinciding. In this video, four workers with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) recall a crash on May 27 in which a motorist struck the vehicles they operated. No major injuries […]

June 23, 2015

Roadbuilding

House Majority Leader on gas tax increase: ‘Let’s think of something else’

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) thinks lawmakers in the capitol should come up with alternative funding for transportation because a gas tax increase isn’t politically feasible. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal McCarthy calls highway funding a “major problem” in America, but the politics of passing a funding bill makes for a challenging feat. “We […]

June 23, 2015

Roadbuilding

Contractors face charges for defrauding PennDOT’s female/minority-owned business program

The top executives at a Pennsylvania highway construction company are facing charges they defrauded the U.S. Department of Transportation to the tune of about $18.7 million. A federal court levied conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges on Carl M. Weber Steel Service, its president Dennis Weber and vice president Dale Weber on June 16, according to […]

June 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

Senate Finance Committee hears opposing views on gas tax, emphasis on long-term transportation funding

Members of the Senate Finance Committee were presented with testimony stressing the need for long-term funding for transportation projects, but much like what was heard earlier in the week by the House Ways and Means Committee, the source of funding remains a divisive issue. In his opening remarks, Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called passage […]

June 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

Crews, Left Coast Lifter, place first horizontal pieces for new Tappan Zee Bridge

It took three and a half hours and one of the largest cranes in the world, but by the time the work was done, the new Tappan Zee Bridge started to look more like a bridge—or at least the early stages of one. The New York Times reported construction crews used the massive Left Coast Lifter […]

June 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

Caltrans completes San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span cantilever demolition

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has completed the demolition of the cantilever portion of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The work is the first phase of the bridge demo, having begun in November 2013 and costing an estimated $63.7 million. The East Span dates back to 1936 and is being […]

June 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

Construction underway on first stretch of California’s high-speed rail network

Five months after ground was broken in Fresno, construction on California’s first high-speed rail line began earlier this week. According to a report from the Fresno Bee, crews began work Tuesday in Madera on the first of 16 concrete footings that will form the foundation of a 1,600-foot viaduct over the Fresno River. Expected to be completed […]

June 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Virginia transportation board approves scoring process to prioritize transportation projects

Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) has approved a transportation project scoring process that will rank and prioritize work to be done and determine which projects merit funding. The process comes out of the law from House Bill 2 “Commonwealth Transportation Board; statewide prioritization process for project selection.” The bill was approved in April 2014 and […]

June 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Transportation Construction Coalition evokes Reagan in ads calling for Congress to fix Highway Trust Fund

Members of the Transportation Construction Commission (TCC) continue their promotional efforts to urge Congress to fix the Highway Trust Fund with their latest ad campaign evoking President Ronald Reagan’s philosophy on transportation infrastructure. The group, co-chaired by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association and the Associated General Contractors of America, is running a series […]

June 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

800 heavy machines and trucks worth $80 million will perform I-4 Ultimate work in Florida

The I- 4 Ultimate project is the largest public-works project in the history of Central Florida, so it’s no big surprise that a massive fleet of heavy equipment would be employed. But the combined total of 800 pickup trucks, cranes, front-end loaders, bulldozers, rollers, excavators and countless other heavy machines was enough to warrant the […]

June 18, 2015

Roadbuilding

House hearing highlights gridlock over gas tax increase despite universal desire for long-term transportation funding

Members of the House Ways and Means committee agreed in their Wednesday hearing on long-term Highway Trust Fund (HTF) financing hearing that action and solutions are needed as soon as possible, but diverged in their thoughts on the methods of providing that funding. In his opening remarks, committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) reiterated the need for […]

June 18, 2015