Emily Buenzle - Tue November 14, 2017

Bill Gates Buys Land for 'Smart City' Construction

Bill Gates' investment group, Cascade Investment LLC, recently bought a piece of land in Arizona to build a "city of the future," UPI reported. The group paid around $80 million for a piece of Belmont, a 24,800-acre development in the desert, about 45 minutes outside of Phoenix....

Emily Buenzle - Thu August 17, 2017

Louisiana DOT Finalizes $72M Highway Expansion Plans

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) announced a contract to widen I-10 has been signed, and the notice to proceed has been issued, Aug. 16. The $72 million project, which has been contracted to James Construction Group LLC, will widen the road from four lanes to six east of Highland Road to the LA 73 interchange and will replace the LA 42 overpass structures....

Brent H. Curtis - Mon November 28, 2016

New England State Reflects on Its 60-Year-Old Interstate System

This year the nation's interstate highway system turns 60 years old. With the holiday season being one of the busiest travel time of the year, a New England state looked back at some of the history of its Interstate highway system....

Jeff Winke - Thu January 01, 2015

Barrett, Welfle Help Revitalize Critical Interstate Bypass

Dayton, Ohio, is known as the birthplace of aviation. It’s here where the Wright brothers studied and tested different wing designs for stability, lift, and control before creating the design that would place Orville and Wilbur in the history books....

- Mon December 15, 2014

’Courage to Risk It All’ Leads to Interstate Sawing Company

Sometimes all it takes is an eye for innovation and the courage to risk it all. For Duke Long, owner of Interstate Sawing Company in West Bend, Wis., it’s the secret to his success. And it has led his company to approach demolition work from a unique perspective....

Lori Lovely - Tue December 16, 2014

PennDOT Replaces Deteriorating Interstate 84

All of Interstate 84, which connects Northeast Pennsylvania to New York State and New England, needs to be replaced, caused by the use of a then-new mixture of concrete in the 1960s. According to a report by the News Eagle, an unforeseen alkali-silica chemical reaction occurred with the rock underlayment, forming a gel inside the concrete....

- Tue April 15, 2014

A&B Dirt Movers Expands Interstate 40 in Central Ark.

As the project to expand Interstate 40 in central Arkansas was announced, it was a pretty good bet that some of the grading work for the highway would be handled by A&B Dirt Movers Inc. Since 1954, the company has done site preparation, grading and storm drainage work on hundreds of projects throughout the Conway region....

Eric Olson - Mon April 14, 2014

Major Interstate Junction in N.C. Undergoes $89M Facelift

When the interchange of Interstate 40 and Interstate 77 in Statesville, N.C., was constructed in the late 1960s, traffic projections through the junction were set at about 5,000 cars and trucks per day....

- Tue March 25, 2014

A & B Dirt Movers Is Moving the Earth for Interstate 40 With Help from KOBELCO SK260LC

As the project to expand Interstate 40 in central Arkansas was announced, it was a pretty good bet that some of the grading work for the highway would be handled by A&B Dirt Movers Inc. After all, since 1954, the company had done site preparation, grading and storm drainage work on hundreds of projects throughout the Conway region....

Thomas B. Langhorne - EVANSVILLE COURIER & PRESS - Thu January 02, 2014

Interstate 69 Extension Work Readies Ground for Paving

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Work on the next phase of Interstate 69, a 27-mi. (43 km) stretch between Bloomington and Crane, Ind., is in full swing — but that doesn’t mean any asphalt is being laid....

Glenn Adams - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed April 10, 2013

Maine Interstate Tolls Would Need Federal Approval

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Drivers on Maine’s interstates could be charged tolls under a pair of proposals that lawmakers are considering, but transportation officials counter that federal law prohibits such a move....