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Roadbuilding

Got a critical infrastructure project? New Case CE grant to award $25,000 in equipment

As part of the company’s infrastructure funding awareness efforts, Case Construction Equipment has launched a grant that will provide a community with free heavy equipment. Case is encouraging representatives of municipal, county and other local governments to apply for the Dire States Equipment Grant. The winning community will receive $25,000 in free equipment to offset the […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Rutgers: New Jersey DOT total road cost is $183,757 per mile

A new study by Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center finds that the average costs of planning, construction, operation and maintenance of roadways maintained by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is $183,757 per mile. The university conducted the study as part of a program aimed at the “aggregate costs” that are connected […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma DOT worker killed during brush removal project

Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Superintendent I Jarrell Gray, 47, was killed while supervising a brush removal project May 18. Gray is the 60th ODOT worker to be killed in a work zone in the history of the agency. The 18-year ODOT veteran was hit by a car on SH 20 near Jay in Delaware County, […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Missouri, Illinois DOTs seek public input on new location for Champ Clark Bridge

The Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation are seeking public comments on the environmental assessment for a location for the new Champ Clark Bridge to span the Mississippi River in Louisiana, Missouri. The current Clamp Clark Bridge, also know as the US 54 bridge, is a five-span truss design built in 1928 and is 2,238 […]

May 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

UTA engineer assessing use of lasers to measure microtexture of aggregates in asphalt and concrete mixtures

Roger Walker, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), is working with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) at Texas A&M to assess whether scanning lasers can accurately measure the microtexture of aggregates used in asphalt and concrete mixtures, according to a news release from UTA. The two-year, […]

May 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Minnesota governor, house republicans spar over transportation funding solutions

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and state House Republicans have both proposed transportation funding measures this week, but have failed to reach an agreement on either. Dayton has brought to the table two separate proposals, with one raising the gas tax by 5 cents per gallon and increasing vehicle license tab (the sticker on the license) […]

May 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

House subcommittee advances new THUD bill with $19.2 billion in USDOT discretionary funds

The House Appropriations Subcommitee on Transportation, House and Urban Development (THUD) has sent the fiscal year 2017 funding bill for the Departments of Transportation (USDOT), Housing and Urban Development on to the full committee. The bill offers an increase of $889 million over fiscal year 2016. “This bill invests in critical national infrastructure to help […]

May 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

S. Carolina DOT commission re-appoints commissioner following state Supreme Court ruling

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) Commission held an emergency meeting this week to re-appoint SCDOT Secretary Christy Hall following a state Supreme Court ruling that removed the governor’s ability to appoint the position during fiscal year 2016. Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Hall to head the agency last October, and the state senate confirmed […]

May 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Preservation programs grow as state DOTs battle challenging bridge conditions

The truth is, while there are still a relatively large number of structurally deficient bridges across the country, roughly 58,500, that figure has dropped in recent years. It’s still not good, as the American Road & Transportation Builder’s Association estimates with current funding levels, it would take 21 years to replace or upgrade all those […]

May 19, 2016

Roadbuilding

One Oregon: Transportation report proposes recommendations to state system

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s Transportation Vision Panel has outlined 10 areas of recommended improvements for the state’s transportation system in the “One Oregon, A vision for Oregon’s Transportation System” report issued this week. The report has been in the works for a year by a 35-member panel, and is intended to cover near-term recommendations and […]

May 19, 2016

Roadbuilding

Portland, Ore. voters approve 10-cent-per-gallon gas tax increase

Voters in Portland, Oregon, narrowly approved a 4-year, 10-cent-per-gallon gas tax increase to be used for transportation system updates, according to a report by The Oregonian. The tax would start in September this year and continue until 2020 and will be the highest local gas tax in Oregon. Slightly more than half (56 percent) of the […]

May 19, 2016

Roadbuilding

ARTBA urges contacting representatives for permanent solution to Highway Trust Fund

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association is advocating for its members and other groups and individuals involved in transportation construction to voice support for a permanent solution for supporting the Highway Trust Fund to be part of tax reform proposals coming from the House Ways & Means Committee. ARTBA says Highways & Transit Subcommittee […]

May 19, 2016