VTDigger - Tue March 01, 2022
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy Helps State Get $200M to Upgrade Five Border Crossings
Vermont is set to collect approximately $200 million from a multibillion-dollar federal initiative to revamp five major land ports between the state and Canada. The White House and General Services Administration (GSA) officials made the funding announcement on Feb....
Vermont Agency of Transportation - Thu December 09, 2021
Vermont Drawbridge Rebuild on Lake Champlain Heading Toward Spring Completion
Lake Champlain's navigable channel between the towns of Grand Isle and North Hero, Vt., is now off-limits to boats of all sizes until May 15, 2022, due to the construction of a new roadway drawbridge over the narrow waterway....
CEG - Fri November 26, 2021
Vermont Gets More Than $9M in Federal Grant Funds for I-89 Pedestrian Bridge
Federal money has been awarded to South Burlington, Vt., for the construction of a pedestrian bridge near a busy intersection of Interstate 89 in the city. The state's two United States' senators, Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, along with Congressman Peter Welch and South Burlington officials, announced Nov....
Southwestern Vermont Health Care - Wed November 17, 2021
Vermont Healthcare System Embraces 'Green Demolition' Ahead of New Bennington Project
Loads of insulation, doors, lighting fixtures, pressure treated lumber, wooden beams and an antique cast iron sink are among the items currently being harvested for reuse from The Lodge, a building on the Bennington campus of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC)....
Burlington Free Press - Mon November 15, 2021
Adjacent Construction Projects Proposed for 2022 Off I-89 in Williston, Vt.
A pair of important building projects will likely kickoff next spring in Williston, Vt., just off Interstate 89. In October, the Burlington Free Press reported that plans were advancing for a new $12.4 million Vermont State Police (VSP) headquarters in Williston at I-89's Exit 12, south of Burlington....
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....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 25, 2021
VIDEO: Three Years In, North Hero-Grand Isle Bridge Remains On Track
Three years into a $60 million project to replace the North Hero-Grand Isle bridge in Vermont, crews are pouring concrete with an eye toward building the new replacement drawbridge in the 2022. The bridge links two islands on Lake Champlain....
VTDigger - Mon July 12, 2021
VT's Fairbanks Museum Could See Expansion with Federal Grant
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in Vermont could finally become a reality after years of beleaguered expansion plans. The 132-year-old facility in St. Johnsbury was chosen by Vermont's U.S. Rep....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Wed June 16, 2021
Reed & Reed Leads Twin Bridges in Vermont to Mid-Summer Completion
The construction of the Rockingham twin bridges, which travel over the Williams River and the Green Mountain Railroad on I-91 in Rockingham, Vt., will be completed in July, with Reed & Reed of Woolwich, Maine, finishing 24S, the southbound bridge....
Vermont Business Magazine - Tue April 27, 2021
For a Small State, Vermont's List of 2021 Transportation Projects is Long
For being one of the nation's smaller states, the Vermont Agency of Transportation's (VTrans) list of highway projects for 2021 is prodigious, indicative of the agency's responsibilities that extends far beyond replacing old pavement and fixing bridges on its state, federal and interstate roadways....
