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The 2011 U.S. Traffic Scorecard indicates that traffic congestion was down 30% last year from 2010 in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. It marks the largest...
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is hoping to generate millions of dollars in new money by launching a program that will permit advertising and sponsorship...
As the people in and around Atlanta prepare to decide on a sales-tax referendum that could generate $6.14 billion for transportation upgrades, officials are still wavering...
Utah’s S.R. 92 project should have been completed in late 2011, but traffic cones are still visible. Now the state legislature is telling the Utah DOT to speed up this...
The latest national traffic signal assessment conducted by the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC), a group of transportation associations, shows that gradual...
The cost of construction materials took a breather in April, while contractors showed slightly greater ability to roll past price increases into their bids, according to an...
Federal lawmakers declared that if the California High-Speed Rail Authority wants full federal funding for its project to construct a 130-mile HSR segment from Los Angeles to...
The city of Tallahassee, Fla., and surrounding Alachua County are nearing completion on a new traffic management system that allows remote monitoring of traffic patterns and...
The U.S. Department of Transportation last week announced the elimination of 46 regulations on traffic signs to provide more flexibility for state and local governments,...
Charlotte, N.C.’s first toll road might not get built, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer, after a federal appeals court unanimously ruled that the North...
More Utah counties have joined the state in its fight to gain control of thousands of dirt roads in rural Utah.
Thirteen counties filed lawsuits over the past week...
The construction industry lost 2,000 jobs in April, following similar declines of 3,000 in March and 1,000 in February, but still added 63,000 jobs over the past year as the...
The leader of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is being accused of favoring asphalt over concrete.
In 2009, Jerry Wray rescinded an ODOT order requiring...
A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released earlier this week highlights what transportation industry experts have worried about for years. The federal surface...
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The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced that an agreement has been reached with Granite Construction Co.’s joint venture, Yaquina River Constructors (YRC),...
As a new traffic bill expanding the definition of intersections to include crosswalks is discussed in the Arizona legislature, local traffic engineers say that adjusting the...
For the second quarter of 2012, the featured channel on Roads & Bridges focuses on bridges. Check out the channel for the latest information on spans in North America.
Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann L. Schneider has unveiled “Transforming Transportation for Tomorrow,” the state’s first multimodal transportation improvement program....
Thanks to an FBI sting, the Brecksville-Northville High Level Bridge, which crosses the Cuyahoga Valley National Park 15 miles outside of Cleveland, was never in any danger...
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The 2011 U.S. Traffic Scorecard indicates that traffic congestion was down 30% last year from 2010 in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. It...
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is hoping to generate millions of dollars in new money by launching a program that will permit...
As the people in and around Atlanta prepare to decide on a sales-tax referendum that could generate $6.14 billion for transportation upgrades,...