City Parks: America's New Infrastructure - Traffic & Transportation
City Parks Alliance releases the latest video in the five-part series, “City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure,” focused on the role of linear parks in providing transportation options to city residents. Featuring Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, PA, The 606 in Chicago, IL, and The Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans, LA, this video share information on how the parks are providing commuter access to jobs and retail, as well as recreational walking and cycling needs.
Officials Celebrate Route 28 Improvements in Loudoun and Fairfax
Dewberry has provided design and construction management for ten new interchanges, freeway widening, and multiple parallel roadway network improvements totaling more than $400 million. Last month, local leaders joined Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) members and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for a formal ribbon cutting to mark the completion of several segments of widening on the Route 28 corridor in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. NVTA estimates the comp...
FRA Delays Deadline for Passenger Rail Safety Programs as DOTs Seek Changes
As state departments of transportation and other groups continue to press regulators for changes, the Federal Railroad Administration said it has delayed for a full year a rule that would require passenger railroads to submit system safety programs. The agency's latest stay of the rule – after four earlier delays – headed off a deadline of Dec. 4 for its requirements to take effect. The new deadline is Dec. 4, 2018. Various state DOTs have been pressing for the FRA to clarify that its rule...
Senate Works Toward Tax Cuts But Makes No Provision to Boost Transportation Funding
The Senate took up tax-cutting legislation that makes no attempt to shore up long-term transportation funding, and which includes an "advance refunding" bond provision that would work against a debt-refinancing technique states and other government entities use to reduce their project costs. Senate Republican leaders said they expected to have enough votes to pass the final bill on Dec. 1. The House passed its version Nov. 16, and once the Senate completes its version the chambers will have t...
Fugro Awarded Third Ground Investigation Package on Scotland's A9 Dualling Programme
Fugro will be mobilising full ground investigation capabilities in the Scottish Highlands as it makes a winter start on its third contract for Transport Scotland on the Scottish Government’s ambitious A9 Dualling programme. The £1.3 million award includes integrated geotechnical and geophysical data collection along 23 kilometres of road corridor to inform the design work for two sections of dualling - Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie and Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore. Due to start mid-Decemb...
Modest Growth for 2018 Transportation Construction Market, ARTBA Forecast Finds
(WASHINGTON) - The U.S. transportation infrastructure market is anticipated to rebound slightly next year, following a 2.8 percent drop in 2017, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s economic forecast released Nov. 30. Total domestic transportation construction and related-market activity is forecast to reach $255 billion in 2018, a year-on-year increase of 3.2 percent after adjusting for project costs and inflation. The 2017 market performance is expected...
Texas DOT Commits to AutoTURN Pro Swept Path Software
Vancouver, Canada - Transoft Solutions is pleased to announce an important software licensing agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation. TxDOT’s commitment to a license for the latest version of AutoTURN Pro is a major win given it is one of the leading DOTs in the traffic and transportation engineering field. “As specialist in the vehicle simulation software for use in road and off-road vehicular facilities, Transoft is pleased to have TxDOT join other state governments in upgradin...
Four More Neo-Panamax Cranes Arrive at the Port of Savannah
Savannah, Ga. - Four additional Neo-Panamax cranes sailed into the Port of Savannah last week, with a 50- by 100-foot American flag across the side. "To see these massive new cranes arrive flying the stars and stripes makes us proud to be part of an operation that provides jobs and opportunity for so many," said Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch. Once commissioned, the new cranes will bring Savannah's fleet to 30. Six additional cranes will arrive in 2020. Wh...
Trump Seeks $44B in New Disaster Aid Including USDOT, With $1B Cut in Highway Funds
President Trump asked Congress Nov. 17 to appropriate another $44 billion in supplemental disaster aid that includes funds for storm-damaged transportation systems, but would help offset that new spending by stripping $1 billion from normal federal-aid highway funds. White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney submitted the lengthy budget request that seeks funding to pay for damage to facilities for a number of executive departments. Added to earlier disaster-aid legislation...
Louisiana DOTD Opens Rebuilt St. Helena Parish Bridge, Damaged in 2016 Floods
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has reopened the Beaver Creek Bridge on La. 10 in St. Helena Parish that "had to be completely rebuilt following irreparable damage during the catastrophic August 2016 floods." The $2.1 million project to rebuild the structure, also known as the Greensburg Bridge, began in March 2017. Before that a contractor had to demolish the old bridge. "This new bridge is great news for those who travel La. 10 and is a continued sign of our st...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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