Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 26, 2020
Clear Lanes Progressing in State's Most Populous Areas
The second-most populous state in the country continues to grow by an average of 1,100 per day, with state demographers predicting that the populations in five metropolitan areas (Austin, Houston, Dallas, Ft....
Associated Press - Thu March 26, 2020
'Disruptive' Major Freeway Project Planned in Phoenix
Phoenix (AP) — Transportation planners are spreading the word that the start of a multiyear project to rebuild a critical freeway corridor in the heart of the Phoenix metro area is only about a year off....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed March 25, 2020
Conveyor Belt Speeds Up Fayetteville Outer Loop Progress
Construction on another section of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) Fayetteville Outer Loop project began last spring — a $129.7 million design-build contract awarded to the Wilmington, N.C.-based team of Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon March 16, 2020
Milani Works to Deliver I-83 Bridge By 2021
In Timonium, Md., which is located in Baltimore County, the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) is heading up a project to replace the 70-year-old Interstate 83 (Harrisburg Expressway) dual bridges over Padonia Road....
Briana Adhikusuma – THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT - Thu March 12, 2020
USACE Delays Construction Plans for Deep Creek Bridge in Chesapeake, Va.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) When the Peterson family was told 20 years ago the federal government would need its land to build a new, wider Deep Creek Bridge in Chesapeake, it abandoned any ambitious plans to develop it....
ARTBA - Wed March 11, 2020
New Grassroots, Advertising Campaign Urges Congressional Action on Transportation Infrastructure
The U.S. transportation construction industry has launched a grassroots and advocacy advertising campaign on multiple fronts to increase pressure on Congress and the Trump administration to act in 2020 on a permanent Highway Trust Fund (HTF) revenue solution and a robust, long-term transportation infrastructure investment package....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon March 09, 2020
S&B Construction Battles Mud Pots Near San Diego
The power of nature, specifically plate tectonics and seismic activity, literally forced the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to build a 5-mi. temporary road adjacent to state Route 111 (SR-111) and install new underground infrastructure for the two-lane highway and the Union Pacific Railroad to abandon tracks and build new ones in the Imperial Valley, east of San Diego....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 05, 2020
Roundabout With Railroad Crossing Makes Georgia History
The city of Sandersville recently received a new distinction — it is the only municipality in the state of Georgia that includes a roundabout with a railroad crossing in the center. The reconfiguration of the GA 242 intersection at Hospital Road and Waco Mill Road just inside the Sandersville city limits was recently completed at the beginning of this year....
AASHTO Journal - Wed March 04, 2020
Indiana DOT Provides $120M for Road, Bridge Projects
The Indiana Department of Transportation issued $120.8 million worth of federal transportation funding on Feb. 12 to 52 cities, towns and counties in rural portions of Indiana to support local road, bridge, and sidewalk projects....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue March 03, 2020
Walsh Makes Progress on ODOT's I-480 Valley View Bridges
Solid progress is being made on the multi-year $227 million, design-build I-480 Valley View bridges deck replacement project in northeast Ohio, an Ohio Department of Transportation initiative that began in November 2017 and will be completed by June 30, 2024....
