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Roadbuilding

AEM announces 5 winners in Infrastructure Vision 2050 ‘Dream Phase’

The Association of Equipment Manufactures (AEM) has announced five winners in the “Dream Phase” of the Infrastructure 2050 Challenge program that aims to bring forth “groundbreaking ideas and solutions” to address U.S. infrastructure challenges. The program was launched in January and offers $150,000 in prizes. The “Dream Phase” ($45,000 awarded) is the second of three […]

July 12, 2016

Roadbuilding

Iowa DOT’s Cedar Rapids intermodal facility gets FASTLANE green light

The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) has been awarded $25.65 million from the FASTLANE grant program to build an intermodal transportation facility in Cedar Rapids. The total project cost is estimated at $46.5 million, and the remainder of the funds will come from the private sector led by Alliant Energy Transportation. “The facility directly […]

July 12, 2016

Roadbuilding

ITD director explains how GARVEE program transformed Idaho’s infrastructure for the better

Idaho’s Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle (GARVEE) program recently wrapped up following a decade of investment in the state’s roads and bridges. Along the way, the GARVEE program transformed the state’s infrastructure in a way we haven’t seen since the interstate system was built through Idaho in the 1960s. President Eisenhower signed the Interstate bill into law […]

July 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Maine DOT awarded $7.7 million in FASTLANE grants for terminal

The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) has received a $7.7 million FASTLANE grant to be used for the Maine Intermodal Port Productivity Project (MIPPP) in infrastructure improvements to the International Marine Terminal (IMT) in Portland. Officials estimate the MIPPP will cost $15.4 million and funds from the state and private sector will match the FASTLANE […]

July 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Ohio’s I-480 Valley View Bridge project to begin two years early

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has announced a rehabilitation project for the Interstate 480 Valley View Bridge of the Cuyahoga River Valley will begin two years earlier than previously planned, according to a report by Cleveland 19. The project had been projected to start in 2019, but due to improved transportation funding, Kasich says the project […]

July 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Flooding damage to West Va. roads at $47 million and rising

The West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) reports damage to roads in the state resulting from recent flooding has reached $46.86 million, affecting roads in 19 counties. The agency expects the damage total to rise as it surveys more areas. Heavy rains hit the state for several days beginning June 23, killing more than 20 people […]

July 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Louisiana awarded $60 million FASTLANE grant for I-10 pavement replacement

Louisiana has been awarded $60 million in a U.S. Department of Transportation FASTLANE grant to use toward adding lanes and replacing 15 miles of pavement on Interstate 10. The state had applied for $100 million for the project in a submission in April. Officials say the total project cost will exceed $300 million.   “We are […]

July 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Caltrans launches 9-month Road Charge Pilot Program

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has launched its Road Charge Pilot Program, a nine-month study using volunteers to gauge the effectiveness of a pay-by-mile system of collecting fees to help pay for transportation infrastructure projects. Motorists who have volunteered for the test won’t actually pay a fee, but will instead make simulated payments on […]

July 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Roadtec president Jeffery Lee Richmond Sr. passes away at age 60

Jeffery Lee Richmond Sr., president of Roadtec Inc., a subsidiary of Astec Industries Inc., passed away June 30 while on a family vacation in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 60. Richmond had served with Roadtec since 1996, holding the positions of sales manager, vice president of sales and marketing and vice president and general manager […]

July 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Virginia’s Atlantic Gateway Project gets $165 million FASTLANE grant

Virginia’s Atlantic Gateway, an Interstate 95 and rail expansion project, has received a FASTLANE program from the U.S. Department of Transportation for $165 million. The state’s grant request had originally been for $200 million. Total resources for the project now come to $1.4 billion, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), including the grant, […]

July 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

New Jersey compiles Transportation Trust Fund projects shut down over legislative impasse

The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and New Jersey Transit have compiled their respective lists of Transportation Trust Fund projects “subject to an orderly shutdown” from Gov. Chris Christie’s executive order to stop work on projects in reaction to a gas tax legislative impasse. The list of the NJDOT projects (43-page document) is available […]

July 6, 2016

Roadbuilding

Snyder vetoes Michigan bill nixing roads cost-sharing requirements for municipalities

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has vetoed a bill that would have ended cost-sharing requirements for some municipalities for interstate and state highway projects within their jurisdiction or boundaries. Senate Bill 557 would have amended Public Act 51, which applies to 45 municipalities with populations more than 25,000. The payment amounts are tied to the population […]

July 6, 2016