TxDOT Celebrates 100 Years of Service to Texas
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Transportation turned 100 years old today and celebrated with an employee event at its downtown Austin headquarters office located in the DeWitt Greer building at 125 E. 11th Street. The event featured a travelling exhibit with a refurbished 1918 Liberty Truck and a time capsule that included some interesting items that have been used in the agency’s century-long history. The Centennial event highlighted the agency’s ongoing mission of connecting Texans to what m...
Fluor Wins Bid-Build U.S. 287 Infrastructure Project in Texas
IRVING, Texas –Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it has been awarded a bid-build contract in Texas for the construction of the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) U.S. 287 Project in Ellis County, just south of Dallas and Fluor’s corporate headquarters in Irving. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the first quarter of 2017. “This is a significant strategic milestone for Fluor and will not only help us firmly establish our position in the bid-build...
Chao Says Infrastructure Plan by May; Advocates Question Path Forward
DALLAS – Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Tuesday that the administration may release infrastructure legislation as soon as May, causing most advocates to applaud the momentum but wonder whether it will move forward quickly. Speaking at a White House town hall with business leaders, Chao said, "We're working on a legislative package that will probably be [announced] in May or late May, or something like that." "We're very much aware of the need for legislation, she added." The...
Colorado DOT Unveils Plan to Cut Nearly Two Years Off US 34 Canyon Construction
LARIMER COUNTY—The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is looking to cut more than a year off the expected permanent reconstruction on US 34 in the Big Thompson Canyon and, in the process, have little impact to travelers during the busy summer season. The tradeoff for this time savings is closing the canyon again next October through May—the same timing as the current closure. "If we continued the way we were planning to do the work, the canyon would have been a mess. You would be...
Public Transportation Guidebook for Small- and Medium-Sized Public-Private Partnerships
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Research Report 191: Public Transportation Guidebook for Small- and Medium-Sized Public-Private Partnerships. This guidebook serves as a resource to explore, evaluate, initiate, plan, and implement small- and medium-sized public-private partnership (P3) initiatives. The guidebook addresses why and when to consider P3s for small- and medium-sized initiatives, what types of initiatives may be un...
Sustainability is at the Heart of Crossrail
As the Crossrail project constructs a new 120-kilometer-long railway line in and across London, sustainability has been at the heart of the whole process. “It was built into the strategy from day one,” says Mike de Silva, Sustainability Manager at Crossrail, in the latest episode of Construction Climate Talks. Crossrail is one of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects and will connect eastern and western London. It consists of a section through central London with over 20 kilometres of twi...
USDOT Celebrates Women’s History Month
Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao has five sisters. Her parents taught all of their daughters to set goals and to proceed step-by-step to advance their situations in life. “My parents were incredible people who believed that their daughters could do anything they wanted in this wonderful country which offered so much opportunity,” she told hundreds of U.S. Department of Transportation employees listening both remotely and in person today at the 2017 US DOT Women’s History Month celebrat...
Groups Warn About Proposed Transportation Cuts in Initial Trump Administration Budget
The fallout continued to spread from President Trump's proposals to cut a number of transportation-related programs in initial budget plan, despite the fact that the administration has tempered those proposals by saying it will address some of those areas in its still-to-come $1 trillion infrastructure package. Groups including the American Association of Port Authorities, Transportation for America, National Association of Rail Passengers and National Association of Counties said the proposa...
Old Span Of Bay Bridge Going, Going, Gone
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Demolition crews began dismantling the final section of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge Tuesday, removing the last remnants of a structure that graced the San Francisco Bay skyline for more than 80 years. The 288-foot truss is the last of 19 that once supported two miles of roadway connecting San Francisco with the East Bay communities from Yerba Buena Island. The span became a symbol of the power of the 1989 Loma Preita earthquake when a section of its...
Nevada’s Transportation Department Celebrates 100th Anniversary Today
CARSON CITY, Nev. – The Nevada Department of Transportation is celebrating 100 years with historical photos and timeline posted on the Department’s website, as well as an invitation for Nevadans to share their state transportation memories. The Nevada Department of Highways was formed on March 23, 1917 with a mission to surface the rutted dirt paths that served as the road network of the time. Historical Nevada transportation photos, videos and decade-by-decade history of the progression of s...
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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