Valley News - Tue May 30, 2023
Road, Bridge Building Season Has Begun Within Vermont, New Hampshire's Upper Valley
As any New England motorist who has driven over the Connecticut River on Interstate 89 or tried to get from Thetford, Vt., to Lyme, N.H., can tell you, road construction season in the two states' shared Upper Valley began its annual ramp up in May....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 30, 2023
McCullough Construction Replacing Swift Creek Bridge
Crews from McCullough Construction Inc. are eager to complete the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) $14 million replacement of the Swift Creek Bridge on State Route 3 in Trinity County, a project that is 90 percent complete....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 25, 2023
Phase Two of $464M LA 1 Bridge Begins in Louisiana
Construction crews in southern Louisiana have begun phase two work on roughly 9 mi. of bridge that will connect Leeville to Golden Meadow in LaFourche Parish. Once this $464 million effort is complete, there will be 19.3 mi....
Brattleboro Reformer & VTrans - Thu May 25, 2023
VTrans to Replace I-91 Bridge Decks Over Brattleboro's Canal Street in 2024
Primary construction is set to get under way in the spring and summer of 2024 to replace the Interstate 91 bridge decks across U.S. Route 5/Canal Street in Brattleboro, Vt., with preliminary work slated to begin late this year....
The Associated Press - Wed May 24, 2023
NTSB Calls for Corrosion Checks to U.S. Bridges Similar to Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge
Investigators looking into the 2022 collapse of a Pittsburgh bridge want transportation officials nationwide to examine more than 10,000 other spans in the United States with similar construction to ensure they do not have the same kind of corrosion that was found on that city's Fern Hollow Bridge....
Lane Construction - Mon May 22, 2023
Lane Construction Wins $96M Bridge Replacement Project in South Carolina
The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, and the builders of a safer and more connected America, has been awarded a $96,000,000 contract for a bridge replacement job in Kershaw County, S.C....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 18, 2023
Concrete General Inc. Leads Bridge Work Toward June Finish
A $33 million project to widen and rehabilitate bridges is nearing the completion of Phase 2 in Hagerstown, Md., in Washington County. The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) initiated the project, which involves the I-70 (Eisenhower Memorial Hwy) Bridges over MD 65 (Sharpsburg Pike) and CSX Transportation....
Miami Herald - Wed May 17, 2023
Five Years After Deadly Bridge Collapse at FIU, New Plans Are Unveiled by FDOT
Five years after the catastrophic collapse of a pedestrian bridge with a novel design meant to punctuate Florida International University's (FIU) ascendancy as a public institution, state engineers are finally ready to build another in its place....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 16, 2023
Wildish Nearing Completion of Yamhill River Bridge
Two years into a $30 million project to replace a bridge over Oregon's Yamhill River, work is more than halfway complete and on time, but the final cost is expected to increase by $1 million to $2 million more than budgeted due to rising costs and an unexpected utility glitch....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu May 04, 2023
Repairing Saint George's Bridge
Everyone likes short cuts. It saves time. It saves fuel and it saves aggravation. Business leaders in the late 1700s envisioned such a short cut slicing through a narrow strip of land to build a waterway linking the Chesapeake Bay with the Delaware River....
