August 2008

After 10 years of planning, design and construction, Lane Transit District (LTD) opened one of the first full-function bus rapid transit (BRT) systems in the U.S. on Jan. 14, ...

With the Democratic primary votes all in, Colorado turned to stuffing the suggestion box.

A few miles to the north of Minneapolis, tornado sirens were blaring. At the site of the I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge project, the hail was warm and embracing. It had to feel...

Highway planners are being warned by some very recent in-depth studies and notable weather-induced events in the past few years that roads, bridges and tunnels will be increasingly...

My green machine days were supposed to be over at age 12. Not too many kids volunteer to scrap their sacred Big Wheel, but by the time I was in fourth grade I was over the whole...

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is preparing for the largest infrastructure improvement project the state has ever seen. Wisconsin is no stranger to construction...

By lowering a section of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, engineers have raised the level of development and cohesiveness of the neighborhood on the northern bank of the...

Improvements to I-75 in southwest Florida have been planned for years. Originally slated for traditional design-bid-build, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) decided...

The new I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis is a modern prestressed concrete segmental bridge designed with multiple levels of redundancy ...

Snaking its way between the winding Juniata River and the steep slope of Shade Mountain, the Lewistown Narrows, a section of Rte. 22/322 in Pennsylvania, has historically been...