David Eggert - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed February 05, 2020
Michigan OKs $3.5B in Road Bonding
LANSING, Mich. (AP) A state panel on Jan. 30 authorized borrowing $3.5 billion to roughly double spending on state road and bridge construction over five years, hours after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the plan in her State of the State speech....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue February 04, 2020
Beaver Excavating Set to Deliver $114M Findlay Project
Beaver Excavating Company is scheduled to deliver the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) $114 million Interstate 75 Widening and Reconstruction project in Hancock County through the city of Findlay this year....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon February 03, 2020
Reviving the Viaduct — South State Leads Key 15-Span Project in Philly
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is overseeing a nearly $90 million project that will rehabilitate the U.S. 1/Roosevelt Expressway viaduct in Philadelphia. The viaduct is located between the Broad Street and Wissahickon Avenue/Germantown Avenue exits in the Nicetown section of the city....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon February 03, 2020
Northern Construction Service Pushes Forward on Morgan-Sullivan Bridge
Northern Construction Service LLC (NCS) is 13 months into the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's (MassDOT) $21.4-million project to demolish and reconstruct the Morgan-Sullivan Bridge and associated roadway, traffic signal and pedestrian improvements in Agawam and West Springfield, an initiative to replace aging infrastructure in the state....
AGC - Wed January 29, 2020
AGC: New House Infrastructure Principles Send Message to Congress
The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in reaction to the release of infrastructure principles by House Democrats and Republicans on Jan....
ARTBA - Wed January 29, 2020
ARTBA CEO Dave Bauer Statement on House Infrastructure Principles
The following statement is attributed to American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President and CEO Dave Bauer. "The separate release of principles from members of the House Transportation & Infrastructure [T&I] Committee is the latest in a long list of reminders that improving America's transportation infrastructure network remains an area for common ground....
Tuscon DOT - Wed January 29, 2020
Broadway Road Construction Expected to Take 20 Months
Construction crews are set to begin a 20-month-long widening project on East Broadway from Euclid Avenue and Country Club Road. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Broadway Road Improvement Project took place, and now crews will work on widening a 2-mi....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue January 28, 2020
Crews Upgrade Link in One of Fastest-Growing Areas in U.S.
A $22 million highway project will upgrade one of Provo, Utah's oldest highways, tearing out failing asphalt, the original concrete still beneath it and excavating more than a dozen feet to replace utilities....
Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Tue January 28, 2020
DDI Will Be Erected on Interstate 35
Officials ceremonially shoveled dirt in Austin last July to launch the latest rendition of an interchange design called a "diverging diamond interchange." Commonly referred to as a DDI, the design is a relatively new wrinkle in highway architecture....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue January 28, 2020
Bang for the Buck: Bangerter Highway's $180M Facelift
Work is set to begin on a $180 million project to change three intersections on Utah's Bangerter Highway from signalized traffic controls to interchanges. Six projects on the highway have already been completed, including four last summer, at a cost of $222 million....
