Tag: monroe county

Roadbuilding

Monroe Co. (Ind.) will soon have a new covered bridge

Monroe County, Indiana, which once boasted as many as 14 covered bridges, lost its last covered bridge to fire in 1976, but it will soon have a new one by reconstructing a vintage 1885 covered bridge over Beanblossom Creek. According to U.S. News, the new bridge will be the Cedar Ford Bridge, a vintage 1885 covered bridge […]

January 15, 2018

Roadbuilding

Work finished to revamp I-390 near Rochester, N.Y.

A $70 million project to upgrade interchanges and bridges on Interstate 390 and improve access to the University of Rochester and nearby businesses in Monroe County, New York, has been completed. The project’s goals were to increase safety and help boost the local economy. The I-390 improvements improve access to the Eastman Business Park and […]

November 15, 2017

Roadbuilding

Fla. toll suspension for Irma costs state $3 million a day in revenue

The 16-day suspension of toll roads in Florida to aid evacuations and returns before and after Hurricane Irma struck will result in more than $45 million in lost revenue, according to the Sun Sentinel. The newspaper reports, though, that the Florida Turnpike system factors toll suspensions for hurricanes into its annual budgets, so the lost […]

September 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Fla. resumes toll collection after being suspended for Irma evacuees

Most toll road collections in Florida will resume at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 21, the Florida Department of Transportation says. The state had suspended tolls Sept. 5 throughout the state to aid Hurricane Irma evacuations and those evacuees’ return to the state. Tolls, however, will remain suspended on the Homestead Extension of Florida’s Turnpike, south of […]

September 21, 2017