StreetsblogMASS & MBTA - Thu November 14, 2024
Boston, MBTA Officials Reveal New Designs for Future Blue Hill Avenue Transit Project
The city of Boston and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) have released new conceptual designs for the Blue Hill Avenue transit project and announced plans to host three open houses in Mattapan and Dorchester in the coming month to vet the refined plan with neighbors and bus riders....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed November 13, 2024
California's I-80 Pavement Rehab Project Moving Along
Construction crews in Northern California are making significant progress on the Yolo I-80 Pavement Rehab Project — a $280 million effort to serve motorists traveling along I-80 between Sacramento and Davis....
ODOT - Tue November 12, 2024
ODOT Reports Progress On Van Buren Bridge; Eight Support Pillars in Place
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced on Oct. 23, 2024, that improvements to the Van Buren Bridge near Corvallis are proceeding, with crews recently completing the deep foundation shafts....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue November 12, 2024
Puget Sound's SR 520: One Project Begins as Another Ends
In Puget Sound's busiest transportation corridor, one major bridge project is ending as another, even bigger operation, gets underway. Crews for Graham Construction & Engineering Inc. are putting the final touches on the $485 million Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) State Route 520 Montlake Project, designed to bolster transportation safety while bridging communities....
Balfour Beatty - Tue November 12, 2024
Balfour Beatty to Rebuild Section of I-35 Around Austin
International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty announced on Nov. 5, 2024, that it was awarded a $746 million contract by the Texas Department of Transportation to rebuild part of Interstate 35 (I-35) through Austin, Texas....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue November 12, 2024
Webber LLC Nears End of I-35 at SH 123 Project in Texas
Weather permitting, Webber LLC expects to deliver the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) $107 million Interstate 35 at State Highway 123 project in San Marcos by the end of the year. Work began in August 2021....
UMaine News & Office of U.S. Senator Susan Collins - Thu November 07, 2024
UMaine Building $82M Research Facility; Sen. Collins Helps Secure $133M for Bridge Replacements
The University of Maine (UMaine) broke ground Oct. 29 on the Green Engineering and Materials (GEM) building, a 50,000-sq.-ft. facility designed to house the innovative Factory of the Future (FoF) incorporating digital manufacturing technologies and fully adaptive, immersive learning spaces for students at UMaine and across the University of Maine System (UMS)....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu November 07, 2024
Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....
NCDOT - Thu November 07, 2024
NCDOT Estimates Date for 2-Way Traffic in Gorge
Traffic may be flowing in both directions on North Carolina's Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge — albeit slower than normal — by New Year's Day. N.C. Department of Transportation officials anticipate a contractor completing a stabilization project securing the westbound lanes of I-40 in the gorge....
ARTBA - Thu November 07, 2024
Voters Approve $41B for State, Local Transportation Investment
Voters Nov. 5 approved 77 percent of 370 state and local ballot initiatives that are expected to generate $41.4 billion in new and renewed funding for roads, bridges, trails and rails, according to initial results compiled by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)....
