Bridge Construction
Image: Chamber of Southwest Louisiana
The Chamber of Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) recently released recommendations for their I-10 Bridge Task Force for the Calcasieu River Bridge.
These recommendations, which were approved by the Chamber board on Tuesday, provide the state with a well-researched, detailed action plan to tackle the...
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The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) recently broke ground on the $73 million next phase of the Centennial Bowl interchange in northwest Las Vegas.
The interchange is where U.S. Highway 95 meets the 215 Beltway. Las Vegas Paving is the general contractor for the project, with a...
Image: Modjeski and Masters
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) recently awarded a contract to Modjeski and Masters for the rehabilitation of two vertical-lift bridges over the Erie Canal.
As the prime consultant on this contract, Modjeski and Masters will provide a full inspection of all structural,...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has included more than 1,600 transportation projects in the state's draft 2020-2029 transportation plan, which was released last week.
The State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) is NCDOT's proposed funding and construction schedule...
Photo: NCDOT Flickr
The Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, which carries N.C. 12 over Oregon Inlet between Hatteras and Bodie islands, is well past its design life and is being replaced with a new bridge that will better withstand its coastal environment. Work began in March 2006, and now it looks like the project is segueing...
Transportation construction work across the nation has been put on hold by the federal government shutdown, with state transportation officials withholding approvals for 2019 projects until federal funding is guaranteed, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The amount of federal...
Image: Arizona DOT
Nearly two years after major construction began on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, construction on the state’s largest single highway project is entering the new year with nearly two-thirds of the work complete.
Progress is evident throughout the 22-mile corridor as crews put down asphalt...
The original light-blue cantilever truss structure connecting the towns of Ironton, Ohio, and Russell, Ky., opened in 1922 as one of the earliest highway bridges crossing the Ohio River.
In 1999, the Ironton-Russell bridge was identified for replacement by the Ohio Department of Transportation (...
Image: I-74 Bridge Twitter feed
Work has been progressing since Roads & Bridges’ visit to the I-74 Bridge project in the Quad Cities early this year, and now it looks as though one unique aspect of the project is beginning to come together.
This past week, just after the holidays, the bridge’s Twitter account posted a photo...
Image: Walsh Construction
Work on the new Kennedy Mill Bridge in Kentucky has completed 11 months ahead of schedule.
The new bridge connects Mercer and Garrard counties across Herrington Lake. Originally scheduled for completion in November 2019, the Kennedy Mill Bridge replaced a 94-year-old, triple-span truss bridge...
Few are the bridges in the U.S. that have been around as long as the Norwalk, Conn., Walk Bridge. The 122-year-old structure has been a stalwart corridor, carrying rail traffic on Metro-North’s New Haven Line as well as Amtrak service on the Northeast Corridor that serves passengers traveling...
In 2014, the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) initiated the full replacement of a 115-year-old bridge in the village of Thomaston, N.Y. Thomaston, located in Nassau County, Long Island, is a mere 0.4 sq miles. The town is separated in two by a single-line railroad track which opened in 1898, and has...
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) director Patrick McKenna recently warned about future massive traffic backups on I-70 in the central part of the state, after voters rejected a 10-cent gas increase on the November 2018 ballot.
According to Missourinet, McKenna said in a press...
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is preparing this week to install the largest precast bridge beams ever in the state of Utah.
The massive concrete beams will impact traffic this week as they are placed along the I-15 technology corridor in Lehi.
Forterra Structural Precast created...
The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved one construction contract and eight professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $82.2 million at its November meeting.
This included $61 million for construction management contracts as part of the Illinois Tollway’s $4 billion...
Rising steel prices are indeed on the minds of road and bridge contractors, but they are not smothering craniums giving them endless noogies like a nasty big brother. Playing that role would be the never-ending skilled labor crisis, which is now starting to ignore the screams of the builder.
Of...
The I-235 reconstruction included wheeling in preassembled sections of a rail bridge that carries the BNSF Railway over I-235/U.S. 77 in Oklahoma City. Image: Oklahoma DOT
OKLAHOMA:
Staying vigilant
“Oklahoma has a larger bridge system than Colorado or Florida. Most people don’t consider that.”
Oklahoma Department of Transportation (OKDOT) Public Relations Chief Terri Angier made this remark in her interview with Roads & Bridges almost as a throwaway statement...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) recently announced the start of bridge rehabilitation work for the Wood River Valley Bridge on I-95 in the southern part of the state.
The large structure carries I-95 over Mechanic Street and the Wood River between Hopkinton and Richmond. The...
The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission officially announced that the second phase of a major modernization project at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge is underway, as part of an effort to improve efficiency at one of the busiest crossings along the U.S.-Canada border.
Phase Two of the project includes...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is ready to begin construction of an interchange on the Southern Beltway in the Pittsburgh area.
The commission last week awarded a $116.2 million contract to Trumbull Corp. for the 2.75-mile section of the $800 million toll road. Preliminary work to clear...
