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Roadbuilding

Cranes lift girders into place on Penn.’s Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway bridge

The video below was taken on February 20 and captures the placement of the first steel girders on the bridge piers of the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway project (CSVT) bridge. PennLive reports that the 4,500-foot-long bridge will carry traffic over the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in Union Township, Union County, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department […]

March 8, 2018

Roadbuilding

Mass. town contracts roadway study to determine ‘best bang for buck’ in needed treatments

In 2017, Sudbury, Massachusetts. hired Vanasse Hangen Brustlin to evaluate its pavements, sidewalks and guardrails to prioritize needs and find the funding needed to fix them, the Sudbury Patch reports. The results of the study were released in September 2017 in a 197-page report, Pavement, Sidewalk, and Guardrail Management Study. Dan Nason, Department of Public Works(DPW) […]

March 8, 2018

Roadbuilding

$666M reconstruction of non-toll I-35E to begin in Dallas

Work is ready to begin on a $666 million reconstruction of a section of Interstate 35 East in Dallas, which will involve no toll lanes. The Southern Gateway project is estimated to take four years to rebuild and widen I-35E and U.S. Highway 67 in southern Dallas County, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. […]

March 7, 2018

Roadbuilding

182-year-old Ky. covered bridge gets temporary repairs after flood damage

Kentucky transportation officials report that Dover Covered Bridge, which was built in 1835 in Mason County in northeastern Kentucky, has been temporarily stabilized after it was damaged by major flooding along Lee Creek in 2017. Two 12,000-pound steel support beams that had been added to the bridge in the 1980s were torn off by the […]

March 7, 2018

Roadbuilding

ASCE: To fix U.S. infrastructure, fix the budget process

A broken budget process must be fixed if Congress is going to finally confront and fix the nation’s ailing infrastructure, according to a new statement released by the American Society of Civil Engineers. “For decades, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass a budget on time, speeding toward budget deadlines as if we have miles of […]

March 6, 2018

Roadbuilding

La. DOTD seeks first P3 venture for Belle Chasse Tunnel and Bridge replacement

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) Secretary Shawn D. Wilson announced that the department is moving forward with plans to solicit partners for its very first Public Private Partnership (P3). The P3 venture would provide the estimated $122 million needed to replace the Belle Chasse Tunnel and Bridge, which are the primary access points […]

March 6, 2018

Roadbuilding

Chao defends Trump infrastructure plan; Senate passage uncertain in 2018

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao defended the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan before a Senate committee March 1, where she met resistance from Democrats over the plan’s call for speeding up environmental permits and its reliance on private funding. Meanwhile, some top Republican senators are saying passage of the plan is not likely this year, as […]

March 5, 2018

Roadbuilding

CTDOT says ‘strategic widening’ of I-95 will reduce congestion, boost economy

A new Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) study, I-95 Strategies to Reduce Congestion, finds that, rather than taking private property to widen all of Interstate 95 to relieve congestion, the same results can be obtained with “limited, directional, and strategic widening” of portions of the interstate already held by CTDOT, the CT Mirror reports. This […]

March 5, 2018

Roadbuilding

MnDOT closes busy stretch of I-35W in Minneapolis; resumes work on $239 million project

As Minnesota begins to thaw, MnDOT is kicking off a busy construction season by closing Interstate 35W in both directions for the weekend between I-94 and Highway 62 in Minneapolis. The closure begins at 10 p.m., Friday, March 2, so crews can demolish the 38th Street bridge.  Southbound I-35W will be open to traffic south […]

March 2, 2018

Roadbuilding

AAA pushes for constitutional amendment to protect Va. transportation funds

AAA Mid-Atlantic asked the Virginia Senate Finance Committee to approve House Joint Resolution 41, a constitutional amendment introduced by Delegate Dave LaRock (R-33) that would ensure that transportation funds would only be used for transportation purposes, AlexandriaNews.org reports. The General Assembly could still borrow from the fund in emergencies, with a two-thirds vote, but would have to […]

March 2, 2018

Roadbuilding

A 3D virtual reality view of the future I-74 Mississippi River Bridge

Though the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge between Iowa and Illinois is still three years from completion, people can now see what it will be like to actually drive across the future span. The Iowa Department of Transportation and Iowa State University have collaborated to create a virtual reality video that not only shows what it […]

March 1, 2018

Roadbuilding

Calif. road law to rev up construction industry, state economy, ARTBA says

California’s $54 billion plan to repair and build roads and bridges will boost the state’s economy, including the construction sector, by $183 billion over the next decade, a new report says. Of that amount, the state’s construction industry would see an additional output of $34 billion and the creation or support of 160,000 jobs, according […]

March 1, 2018