Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 28, 2022
AGC: Billion-Dollar Funds Will Fix Golden State Spans
As part of the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, California is receiving approximately $4.2 billion over five years to address the repair and replacement of highway bridges. This translates into $849.4 million in initial funding for the five-year bridge repair program....
TxDOT - Tue December 27, 2022
Multiple Construction Jobs Under Way in Odessa District
A $36.6 million project to add passing lanes and to rehabilitate approximately 10 mi. of Highway 302 in Loving County is under way. The project stretches from the just west of FM 1933 in Mentone to just east of Purple Cattle Guard Road....
TxDOT - Tue December 27, 2022
Texas Clear Lanes Initiative Reaches Pre-Pandemic Level
COVID-19's effects on Texas traffic levels lingered throughout 2021, with delays on the state's most congested roadways growing but still below pre-pandemic gridlock conditions, according to a new study performed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)....
Associated Press - Tue December 27, 2022
Officials Support $9 Billion Houston Highway Project
HOUSTON (AP) A more than $9 billion highway widening project that is being proposed in the Houston area has the support of local officials after many of their concerns were addressed. The proposed construction project would take 10 years to complete and remake 24 mi....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue December 27, 2022
Officials Celebrate Billion Dollars Worth of Projects in Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which is overseeing a major multi-billion dollar expansion of the state's highway network via road and bridge construction, officially launched a new highway project in the Fort Worth/Dallas area (Tarrant County) and marked the completion of another....
GDOT - Thu December 22, 2022
C.W. Matthews Completes Work to Reopen Cheshire Bridge
Crews from C.W. Matthews have reached a construction milestone as officials recently reopened a portion of the Cheshire Bridge over South Fork Peachtree Creek. The crucial span suffered damage from a fire in August 2021 when a 4-in....
WCVB-TV - Thu December 22, 2022
Outgoing Massachusetts Governor Awards $180M for Wind Port Infrastructure
As Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's time in office nears its conclusion on Jan. 5, one of his last official acts is in support of clean energy, a topic that has been a top priority for his administration....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Wed December 21, 2022
Scenic Watauga River Getting New Bridge Along Mountainous N.C. Highway
A construction project began earlier this year in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains to expand a critical roadway and replace an aging bridge to help lessen traffic congestion in a much-traveled part of the state....
VDOT - Tue December 20, 2022
VDOT Announces First Segment of I-64 Widening Project Advances
Virginia Secretary of Transportation Shep Miller announced that the Commonwealth is advancing a long-awaited project to begin widening the 64 Gap — the 29-mi. section of Interstate 64 between Richmond and Williamsburg where the highway narrows from three to two lanes in each direction....
NCDOT & CEG - Mon December 19, 2022
NCDOT Accelerates Timeline for Building Coastal Region's Hampstead Bypass
After a series of delays to the overall project, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has announced that construction of the second part of the Hampstead Bypass on U.S. Highway 17 near the southeast coast will now begin sooner than originally planned....
