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Louisiana faces bridge and road budget crisis after recent flooding

Louisiana suffered approximately $20 million in damage to its bridges and roads due to recent flooding, state Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) Secretary Shawn Wilson said during a meeting of the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, according to a report in the New Orleans Advocate. The subcommittee is reviewing the DOTD’s proposed $583 million operating budget for the 2016-2017 […]

April 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Utah DOT announces top 10 bridge and highway projects for 2016 valued at $722 million

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has announced its top 10 bridge and highway projects for this year, with a total value of $722 million. UDOT has scheduled more than 150 projects this construction season. Here’s the top 10: 1. I-215—300 East to S.R. 201, $105 million Construction starts May 2016; scheduled completion fall 2017. […]

April 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

PennDOT seeking unsolicited public-private partnership proposals

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is accepting its next round of unsolicited public-private partnership proposals for transportation projects. Submissions are for PennDOT-owned projects and infrastructure and the deadline is April 30. Since 2012, Pennsylvania has been working on P3 projects after the signing of the Public-Private Transportation Partnerships Act. It allows state transportation authorities […]

April 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Virginia DOT turns to ‘Pothole Hunter Phil Itkwik’ to motivate motorist reports

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is using humor with its Pothole Hunter Phil Itkwik campaign to motivate motorists to report potholes. The Phil Itkwick (pronounced “fill it quick”) campaign ties into the current political atmosphere in the video seen below, with a crowd of supporters waving signs and cheering on the character’s message. “VDOT […]

April 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Michigan researchers looking at ways to lessen spring thaw impact on roads

Researchers with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Michigan State University (MSU) have created a statistical model in an attempt to predict soil frost conditions to better time when the state’s “frost laws” go into affect. These load restrictions help reduce damage to roadways. MDOT requires truck weights be reduced 25 percent for concrete […]

April 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Texas lawmakers take a hard look at toll roads

Lawmakers in the state of Texas are taking a long, hard look at toll roads, and there has been a push to do away with them altogether. Many are beginning to question whether toll roads are actually being built to ease congestion, which was the original plan, or whether they are just being built to […]

April 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Connecticut DOT launches online dashboard to track progress of projects

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has launched an interactive online tool to track progress of transportation projects under the state’s Transportation Ramp-Up Program. The Transportation Ramp-Up Program, valued at $2.8 billion, represents the first step of the Let’s Go CT! program approved last year. It’s described as a “transformative strategy toward reinvesting in Connecticut’s […]

April 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

TRIP: Oklahoma drivers hit with $5 billion tab each year related to road conditions, congestion and safety issue

The Road Improvement Program’s (TRIP) latest report on Oklahoma shows bridge and road conditions, along with congestion, are costing drivers in the state an average of $2,200 a year, or $4.9 billion in total. TRIP’s “Oklahoma Transportation by the Numbers: Meeting the State’s Need for Safe, Smooth and Efficient Mobility,” indicates that 28 percent of the state’s […]

April 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Thirty-year Missouri DOT worker killed during bridge maintenance work

Missouri Department of Transportation employee Lyndon D. Ebker, 55, was struck and killed by a vehicle Thursday while flushing bridges on eastbound Route 100 near Buchheit Road on the outskirts of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ebker’s crew posted signage identifying the work and parked a dump truck fitted with an attenuator […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Foxx urges careful consideration when determining placement of roads

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is encouraging road developers to think carefully before placing a highway through the middle of a neighborhood. The Atlantic reports that Foxx’s grandparents lived such a neighborhood, and the result was a disconnection of the cut-off part of the neighborhood from the city and opportunity. Now, Foxx wants to do something about that. The news […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 11-15

This year’s theme for National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW), set for April 11-15, is “Don’t be THAT Driver: Work on Safety. Get Home Safely. Every Day.” The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will host the kick-off event for this year’s program near the 32-mile I-75 widening project outside of Toledo on April 12 at […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans partners with Waze app for Connected Citizens Program

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has partnered with the crowdsourced navigation app Waze and will contribute to the company’s Connected Citizen’s Program. In this move, Caltrans joins a growing list of state departments of transportation sharing data with Waze. These include Nebraska, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. “Combining the real-time anonymous data […]

April 7, 2016