Work Zone Crisis: 44 Percent of Contractors Report Vehicle Crashes at Construction Sites
In a new report that starkly highlights the risk to workers as well as motorists in highway work zones, 44 percent of roadway contractors said vehicles had crashed into their construction sites in the past year, for a 13 percent jump from 2016 and including spikes in construction worker deaths and injuries. The Associated General Contractors of America, which surveyed more than 700 contractors nationwide during March and April, said it has launched a new public advertising and information cam...
Metro Regional Connector Tunnel Boring Machine Surfaces at New L.A. Station
The $1.55 Billion Metro Regional Connector Transit Project, a 1.9-mile long subterranean twin rail tunnel linking L.A.’s Gold, Blue and Expo lines, last week punched through the site of the future 2nd/Hope Station in Bunker Hill. The tunnels, scheduled to wrap up by early 2018, will connect three new stations along the Connector’s expanded path, from Little Tokyo to the Financial District in downtown L.A., including the 1st /Central Station in Little Tokyo and the 2nd /Broadway Station in the Ci...
Oldcastle Precast Bridge Projects Win Design Excellence Awards
REHOBOTH, Mass. (JUNE 2017) – Oldcastle Precast’s Skilton Road Bridge Rehabilitation and Interstate-10 Tex Wash Bridge Emergency Replacement Projects were recipients of Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) 2016 Design Excellence Awards. During the 54th annual PCI Design Award Program, twenty-six awards were presented to projects across North America, including best-in-class awards for both transportation structures and buildings, as well as special awards for industry advancement, s...
A Few Months Before Its Official Opening, Tappan Zee Bridge Is Drivable
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Several months remain before it officially opens to long-expectant commuters, but it is now possible to drive across the entire three-mile length of the new Tappan Zee Bridge, a critical crossing in the suburbs of New York City. Like beavers steadily piling branches and mud into a dam, hundreds of workers have cobbled together enough of the outward-sloping towers, the radiating cables, the steel framework and the concrete-paneled roadway of the first of twin bridges so that...
The Future of Transport is Magnetic
In advance of a CWIEME Berlin seminar, project leaders from two prestigious universities reveal their exciting experiences in developing magnetically-propelled transit pods for the SpaceX Hyperloop. The idea of creating new high-speed mass transit systems is a hot topic for many scientists around the world. Spurred on by technology engineering entrepreneur, Elon Musk, the race is on to create pods that can transport passengers and cargo at high speeds. Musk – the founder and co-founder of seve...
Trump Proposes Wide Range of Cuts to Long-Favored Transportation Programs
President Trump proposed a budget for the 2018 fiscal year that would both launch the start of a 10-year program of additional infrastructure investment while making cuts in a wide number of federal programs favored by transportation stakeholders. For the main highway and transit programs under the Highway Trust Fund, the budget for the first year would hold to levels Congress authorized in 2015 through the Fixing American's Surface Transportation Act – $44.234 billion in obligation authority...
3M and MDOT Partner on Nation's First Connected Work Zone on I-75 in Oakland County
Today, 3M and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced they are partnering to utilize connected vehicle technologies along more than 3 miles of I-75. Using leading roadway solutions from 3M, the current I-75 modernization project work zone in Oakland County will be transformed over the course of four months to improve safety for drivers and to test advanced vehicle-to-infrastructure technologies on the connected and autonomous vehicles of the future. The I-75 modernization p...
National Transportation Group Holds Major Event in Portland
Portland - This week, the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) held its annual spring meeting in Portland, Maine. More than 450 of the nation’s top transportation officials, including Commissioners/Cabinet Secretaries of Transportation, Chief Engineers and policy staff from 46 states gathered to discuss the latest in industry policies and innovations. MaineDOT Commissioner David Bernhardt is currently...
HDOT to Add a New Freeway Lane From the Red Hill Area to Aiea Heights Drive Overpass
HONOLULU – Beginning in early June, the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) will be working on the H-201 Moanalua Freeway westbound from the Halawa Interchange to the Aiea pedestrian overpass on the H-1 Freeway. The work on the Moanalua Freeway will add a full-time dedicated westbound lane through restriping and will improve the pavement surface in the project area. “I am pleased that HDOT continues to move forward with cost effective projects aimed at improving the daily lives of resi...
Amtrak Taps Developer for $1 Billion-Plus Redevelopment of Union Station
Amtrak has chosen a Chicago development firm to lead a more than 3 million-square-foot real estate redevelopment of Union Station and surrounding land, a project expected to take about six years to complete and cost more than $1 billion. Riverside Investment & Development, led by John O'Donnell, will lead the redevelopment team, according to a news release on the project. More details are expected to be announced Thursday by the developer, Amtrak and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The total development...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
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