Tue September 12, 2017
ADOT Places Largest Girders in State on Salt River Bridges
The Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, already the largest single highway project in Arizona history, now has the longest bridge girders of their type in the state. As long as a 17-story building and each weighing as much as 14 elephants, 94 extra-long single span girders have already been placed on two bridge structures (northbound and southbound) that will carry traffic over the Salt River when the South Mountain Freeway opens by late 2019....
Irwin Rapoport - Mon September 11, 2017
ALDOT Pursues $700M Bridge, Roadway Project
The Alabama Department of Transportation is spending more than $700 million to rebuild and upgrade a 2-mi. stretch of Interstate 59/20 that runs through downtown Birmingham via a three phase project that started in September 2015 and will be completed in 2020....
Lori Tobias - Fri September 01, 2017
Repairs Under Way on Longest Suspension Bridge in New England
Work is well under way on a project to repair the deck of Rhode Island's Newport/Pell Bridge — at 11,247 ft. long, it is the longest suspension bridge in New England. “This is a major undertaking replacing the deck of this bridge,” said Jim Malachowski, spokesman of the RDW Group, the Providence-based public relations firm representing the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority....
Fri September 01, 2017
Work Set to Begin on Another New Hampshire-Maine Span
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) Transportation officials from Maine and New Hampshire are getting ready to begin a rehabilitation project on the Piscataqua River bridge that carries Interstate 95 between Portsmouth and Kittery....
Fri September 01, 2017
Federal Funding in Place for Bridge Between N.H., Vt.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire said federal funding is in place to build a new bridge between New Hampshire and Vermont. They said the New Hampshire Department of Transportation will receive $5 million in federal funding to replace the Rogers' Rangers Bridge on U.S....
Chuck Harvey - Wed August 30, 2017
$81M Off-Broadway 44 'On Stage' Until 2022
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is project manager for a major road construction production titled “Off Broadway 44” in Oklahoma City, featuring an $81 million highway widening and bridge construction project....
Tue August 29, 2017
WSDOT Offers Historic Puyallup River Bridge for Sale
For more than eight decades, the Meridian Street Bridge over the Puyallup River served as a portal for cities along the Puget Sound to the semi-rural, agricultural community of Puyallup, Wash. Now, this historic bridge is up for donation....
Tue August 29, 2017
Idaho's St. Maries Bridges Replacement Starts This Fall
Two bridges on Idaho Highway 3 — one over the St. Maries River Railroad Company tracks and one over the St. Joe River in St. Maries — will be replaced starting in September, after Labor Day....
Lori Tobias - Tue August 29, 2017
Seattle's 'Small Bridge With Big Promise'
Work in Seattle is nearing completion on what will be the first bridge of its kind anywhere in the world. They call it “the small bridge with the big promise,” a span designed to return to its original shape after a major earthquake....
Emily Buenzle - Fri August 25, 2017
Gov. Cuomo Opens New Tappan Zee Bridge
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened the first span of the newly constructed Tappan Zee Bridge in a ceremony Aug. 24. In his remarks, Cuomo compared the bridge project to the likes of the New York subway system and the George Washington Memorial Bridge, which the government hardly ever pursues, the Times Union reported....
