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South Dakota DOT gets 99 applications for Bridge Improvement Grant funds

The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) has received 99 applications for its Bridge Improvement Grant (BIG) funds system, a program the state created last year that makes $9 million available for bridge projects. SDDOT will forward their recommendations to the South Dakota Transportation Commission, which will then make a decision on the approved projects […]

February 17, 2016

Roadbuilding

Chicago snow plow driver shot at while clearing city streets

For the second time in less than a month, a snow plow driver was shot at while clearing streets. ABC 7 in Chicago reported that a Chicago Streets and Sanitation Department snow plow driver was driving through the West Side on Sunday afternoon when another driver in a dark SUV opened fire. The snow plow driver […]

February 17, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans dismantles 504-foot long section of old Bay Bridge

The California Department of Transportation recently dismantled a massive chunk of the old Bay Bridge in Oakland. According to Caltrans, the department finished up a major project at the beginning of the month in its three-year demolition of the old Bay Bridge as it cut loose the 504-foot long, 2,500-ton steel truss and lowered it onto waiting […]

February 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

Tarver Land Development receives NAPA 2015 Ray Brown National Airport Paving Award

The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) has awarded Tarver Land Development with its 2015 Ray Brown Airport Pavement Award for its resurfacing work on the runway at Polk Army Airfield at Fort Polk in Louisiana. NAPA made the presentation at its recent annual meeting in La Quinta, California. Tarver milled 4 inches from the existing 4,080-foot […]

February 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

NAPA names 10 Larry H. Lemon Quality In Construction Award winners

Ten winners received the 2015 Larry H. Lemon Quality in Construction Award at the recent National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) annual meeting. The award recognizes “excellence” in asphalt pavement construction projects that use more than 50,000 tons of asphalt. The winners and their projects include: Barrett Paving Materials of Franklin, Ohio, for its work on […]

February 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

Highway worker frees woman from vehicle overturned in icy Indiana creek

A highway worker in Indiana is being hailed a hero after he helped rescue a woman whose car overturned in a creek last week. According to the Banner Graphic, Putnam County Highway Department worker Greg Whitman was passing by a rural creek when he noticed an overturned sedan in the freezing waters. Just minutes before, 25-year-old Christy […]

February 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

High-volume pavement preservation: Untapped potential for contractors

Asphalt pavement preservation is a tactic used primarily in the realm of low-volume roadways. It has helped municipalities expand road life, keep overall highway maintenance costs down, and keep residents relatively happy during their commutes to and from work and home. The success of these programs, along with interest from the Federal Highway Administration, is […]

February 15, 2016

Roadbuilding

RhodeWorks signed into law: RI transportation funding initiative to create 6,000 jobs

Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed into law RhodeWorks, Rhode Island’s transportation project funding initiative first proposed in May 2015. The final plan provides for the repair of more than 150 structurally deficient bridges as well as an additional 500 bridges to prevent them from reaching that condition. Officials estimate this plan will bring 90 percent […]

February 15, 2016

Roadbuilding

TRIP report identifies Alabama’s 50 most needed transportation improvements

The Road Improvement Program (TRIP) has identified the top 50 most needed transportation improvements in Alabama in its most recent report, indicating that poor road and bridge conditions “threaten to stifle economic growth and development” in the state. In the report, TRIP says these projects include expanding highways, bridges and building new structures. Sixteen percent of […]

February 15, 2016

Roadbuilding

Washington governor announces new acting DOT Secretary

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee named Roger Millar as the state’s new acting Secretary of Transportation. According to a press release from the governor, Millar, current Deputy Secretary, will take over leading the Washington Department of Transportation immediately. “WSDOT is fortunate to have Roger, an accomplished engineer and transportation leader, to step up in this pivotal […]

February 15, 2016

Roadbuilding

How Norris Asphalt and the Iowa DOT won NAPA’s Sheldon G. Hayes Award for excellence in asphalt pavement

Norris Asphalt Paving and the Iowa Department of Transportation have received the 2015 Sheldon G. Hayes Award, the annual honor given by the National Asphalt Pavement Association to the highest quality asphalt pavement in the country. During NAPA’s annual meeting in La Quinta, California, the two entities were recognized for work on a 15-mile stretch […]

February 12, 2016

Roadbuilding

NAPA inducts Superior Paving’s Ronald White into Asphalt Pavement Hall of Fame

Ronald White, chairman emeritus of Superior Paving in Gainesville, Virginia, has been inducted into the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s (NAPA) Asphalt Pavement Hall of Fame. He was recognized during the association’s 61st annual meeting in La Quinta, California. White started with Superior Paving in 1976 when the company first began doing work for the Virginia […]

February 12, 2016