Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 03, 2021
Fay Forges Ahead Over the Yough
A bridge in McKeesport, Pa., is currently being revitalized for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The Jerome Street Bridge is an arch bridge crossing the Youghiogheny River. It opened in the current design in 1937 and was previously rehabilitated in 1988....
First Coast News - Wed June 02, 2021
FDOT Provides Temporary Fix to Buckman Bridge After Closure
Construction crews spent nearly nine hours trying to fix expansion joins on the Buckman Bridge in Jacksonville, Fla., following reports of damage the morning of May 27. The southbound lanes of the bridge were reopened late the same day after the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) pulled construction crews who worked on temporary repairs to the roadway, reported First Coast News....
Charlotte Observer - Wed June 02, 2021
VIDEO: Controlled Demolition Blows Center Span of Old Outer Banks Bridge
The last remaining center span of one of North Carolina's most famous bridges went up in smoke and flying debris on May 27 as part of a controlled explosion. Contractors blasted the final remaining horizontal section of the old Herbert C....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 01, 2021
Q&D Construction Completes Echo Summit Job Using Accelerated Bridge Construction
Employing an accelerated bridge construction method (ABC), Q&D Construction was able to complete the California Department of Transportation's $14.1 million U.S. Highway 50 Echo Summit Sidehill Viaduct Replacement Project three months ahead of schedule....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 25, 2021
Facebook Decides Color of New Spottsville Bridge
University of Kentucky sports fans will soon have colorful evidence of their team loyalty when a new bridge sprouts on the landscape sporting the team colors of blue and white. Work began on the $32 million Spottsville Bridge, known officially as the Richard W....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 25, 2021
Dual Bridge Repair in Dayton
Nothing lasts forever. When the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) conducted routine inspections of the bridge decks and surface of Interstate 75 over Edwin C. Moses Boulevard and Carillon Boulevard near the Great Miami River in Dayton, Ohio, they concluded that the bridge decks built in 1963 had reached the end of their useful design life....
WMC Action News 5 - Thu May 20, 2021
ARDOT Fires Inspector Who Overlooked Crack in River Bridge in 2019
As the investigation continues as to why a significant beam fracture occurred on the I-40 bridge across the Mississippi River, an inspector with the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) who checked the 48-year-old structure in 2019 and failed to discover the crack, has been fired and may face criminal charges....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 20, 2021
Century-Old Bridge Over Passaic River Set to Be Razed
Construction crews in Paterson, N.J., have begun work to replace a more than 100-year-old structure that's carried thousands of vehicles per day. Fair Lawn Avenue Bridge has served the community well, but time has run out for the aging, outdated overpass....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Wed May 19, 2021
Crews Pour Concrete Deck On Houghton Road/I-10 Structure
Drivers southeast of downtown Tucson will see a major step forward in an interchange reconstruction project as crews pour the concrete bridge deck on the new Houghton Road structure at Interstate 10. The concrete work on the bridge comes as the Arizona Department of Transportation reaches the halfway point of a $24.4 million project to rebuild the interchange....
CEG - Mon May 17, 2021
Bridge Crack Closes I-40 Bridge Over Mississippi River in Memphis
During a routine inspection of a key interstate bridge over the Mississippi River on May 11, an Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) engineer spotted a fractured beam on the structure that led him to immediately make an urgent 911 call....
