Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 19, 2018
State Board Approves Five-Year Construction Program
A major freight corridor in southern Arizona that moves trucks to and from Mexico for produce and other goods will undergo a full build-out of improvements over the next few years now that the State Transportation Board formally approved the funding for the project....
Virginia Department of Transportation - Mon June 11, 2018
Virginia Transportation Board Makes Major Announcements
At the monthly meeting of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine announced the director of a newly created Office of Transportation Innovation and the launch of the Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Plan....
DartFirstState.com - Mon June 11, 2018
Work Begins on Transit Center Maintenance Facility in Delaware
Delaware Transportation Secretary Jennifer Cohan and Delaware Transit Corporation (DTC) CEO John Sisson were joined by State Tourism Director Elizabeth Keller and other state and local officials to celebrate the start of construction on the Maintenance Facility at Lewes Transit Center along DE 1, just south of Five Points....
Kathleen Ronayne - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed June 06, 2018
Board Approves Bullet Train's New 2018 Business Plan
SACRAMENTO (AP) The board tasked with overseeing California's ambitious high-speed rail project approved a new business plan May 15 and pledged to keep pushing forward even as the plan faces stark financial challenges....
Jennifer Rupp – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 05, 2018
$139M Mukilteo Multimodal Terminal Opens Next Year
Tribal leaders and elected officials joined Washington State Ferries (WFS) in August 2017 to celebrate construction of the new Mukilteo ferry terminal. The gathering represented a decade of planning and partnerships to deliver a project that respects tribal lands and artifacts and provides critical safety improvements at the state's busiest car ferry terminal....
U.S. Department of Transportation - Mon June 04, 2018
U.S. DOT Announces $277.5M in Emergency Relief Funding for Transit Systems Damaged by Hurricanes
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced May 31, the allocation of $277.5 million in Emergency Relief funding for public transportation systems damaged by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 31, 2018
Savannah Mason Mega Rail Terminal Work Proceeds
Work is well underway on a 20-month contract to build the infrastructure for a railroad project in Savannah that will make it the largest on-deck intermodal rail facility for a port authority in North America....
ARTBA - Wed May 30, 2018
ARTBA Says Federal Highway Administration Decision Clears Air on Overreaching Greenhouse Gas Rule
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) commended the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) recent decision to abandon a proposal to require the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions following construction of new transportation projects....
NJDOT - Tue May 29, 2018
NJDOT Launches Program to Improve Quality of Life
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Acting Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti announced the launch of the department's Commitment to Communities Initiative to ensure local governments succeed in delivering transportation projects that improve the quality of life for those traveling in and through New Jersey....
Amtrak - Tue May 29, 2018
Gateway Advances Construction for Future Hudson Tunnel
Trustees of the Gateway Program Development Corporation (GDC) on May 18 commended the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for agreeing to fund $12.5 million of work with Amtrak to relocate utilities from the path of Section 3 of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing project....
