Northwest Florida Daily News - Tue September 21, 2021
Work Under Way on Largest Phase of Florida's SW Crestview Bypass
Okaloosa County, Fla., officially broke ground for the largest phase of the Southwest Crestview Bypass construction project in mid-September, marking a huge milestone, not only for the town of Crestview, but for the entirety of the state's far northwest....
Transportation.gov - Tue September 21, 2021
USDOT to Provide $628M for I-405 Construction Project
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced its Build America Bureau has provided a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act TIFIA direct loan in the amount of up to $628.93 million to the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) for the I-405 Improvement Project....
Oregon Transportation Commission - Tue September 21, 2021
OTC Advances I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project
The Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) recently advanced the highway cover option for the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project known as the Hybrid 3 option, with conditions. The decision by the OTC advances the project that was part of House Bill 2017, passed in 2017, a major transportation funding bill....
idaho. gov - Tue September 21, 2021
Crews Begin Highway 75 Phase Two
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has begun phase two of the rehabilitation project on Idaho Highway 75 (Main Street) in Hailey between Fox Acres Road and Cobblestone Lane. Knife River is the primary contractor on this $3.4 million project....
Idaho. gov - Tue September 21, 2021
City Council Ponders New Construction, Scraps Old Plan
The Middleton City Council will consider a revision to its Comprehensive Plan regarding the future Highway 44 that will have ripple effects for transportation far beyond the city limits. For the last two decades ITD has partnered with City of Middleton leaders to develop an alternate route for the highway that would be constructed to the south of the current roadway....
WSDOT - Tue September 21, 2021
Graham Contracting Will Upgrade I-405 Interchange
The Washington State Department of Transportation announced the award of a contract to start construction on the I-405/NE 132nd Street Interchange project. The contractor, Graham Contracting Ltd., submitted the apparent best value proposal of $50.4 million for this design-build project....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue September 21, 2021
Wildish Construction Replacing 70-Year-Old Bridge in McMinnville
A $38 million project in Oregon's Yamhill County will replace a 70-year-old bridge with a new, wider bridge designed to accommodate the growing vehicle and pedestrian traffic on the main access into the city of McMinnville....
CEG - Mon September 20, 2021
Deal Reached on $400M Plan to Renovate Philly's 30th Street Station in 2022
Amtrak and Plenary Infrastructure Philadelphia (PIP) reached a deal Sept. 15 on a lease and development agreement for the restoration and renovation of the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, multiple news sources reported....
CEG - Mon September 20, 2021
Connecticut DOT to Make Repairs Following Tropical Storm Ida
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has assumed remediation of the "slope failure" caused by Tropical Storm Ida's heavy rains near the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, which left a refined products pipeline exposed and dozens of feet of train rails unsupported....
CEG - Thu September 16, 2021
Major Improvement Project Has Begun on Nearly 12.5 Mi. of VT Route 9
The 46.96 mi. of Vermont Route 9 from the Chesterfield, N.H., bridge west to the New York State border has been around in one form or another since the 1760s. VT 9 — officially the Molly Stark Trail through the entirety of its length in southern Vermont — is part of a key east-west route between Portland, Maine, and Albany, N.Y....
