Highway Construction
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) plans to turn the U.S. 1 Capital Boulevard into a freeway from I-540 in Raleigh north through Wake Forest and will present its plans at public meetings this week.
The limited-access highway would be free of traffic lights and driveways, and...
The Indiana Department of Transportation's (INDOT) latest plan to reconstruct the ailing I-65/I-70 North Split includes not adding more lanes, the agency announced recently.
The project goals include updating the 32 decaying bridges and pavement, and bring the interchange up to modern standards...
Washington State transportation officials have agreed to create direct transit lines between the booming South Lake Union and the Eastside in Seattle by building a new reversible I-5 express lane between S.R. 520 and Mercer Street for buses only.
The $70 million project, scheduled to open in 2023...
In the largest grant it has ever received, the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) was rewarded with a $90.2 million Infrastructure For Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant to widen part of I-84.
The grant serves as 60% of the funding needed to expand 2.8 miles of I-84 from the Karcher Interchange...
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The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), state officials—including Gov. Nathan Deal—and project partners recently celebrated the completion and opening of the Northwest Corridor Express Lanes with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Construction for the project began in October 2014 and the lanes...
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is hoping to close on a contract by the end of the year that will allow it to rebuild 18 miles of I-75 in Oakland County 10 years early.
MDOT said in a news release Friday that it has identified a team of contractors and designers called the...
The fixed $916 million contract for the design and construction of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway made it the largest single highway project in Arizona’s state history.
More than one year after major construction began on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, Arizona’s largest single highway project ever, progress has been swift.
Bridges have been built from the ground up, a massive amount of earth has been moved and compacted, and an emerging interchange has...
The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) recently hit a midpoint project milestone for a $78 million U.S. Highway 95 corridor upgrade that broke ground earlier this year in northwest Las Vegas.
General contractor Las Vegas Paving recently completed a new southbound U.S. Highway 95 bridge...
Several redesigned entrance and exit ramps from I-59/20 and I-65 in Birmingham, Ala., are expected to be open to the public later this month.
Gov. Kay Ivey made the announcement Wednesday from the top of the ramp leading to I-65 South from 17th Street North in Birmingham, the tallest ramp...
To accommodate a separate plan to build a pedestrian bridge providing access to the Las Vegas Stadium from the Strip, Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) officials are reexamining a $200 million project that includes reconstruction of the I-15 Tropicana interchange and the addition of high-...
Montgomery County, Va., officials have crafted a proposal to extend the Virginia Smart Road to I-81, creating a new highway link to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
The $215 million plan, which now goes before Virginia's Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) for consideration, would more than...
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has plans to build a new highway in northeast El Paso.
Officials said the Northeast Parkway will help create an alternate route to get drivers from east to west El Paso and vice versa.
The highway would split at Loop 375 just before Railroad Drive...
A massive $110 million road construction project kicks off Monday on a 9-mile stretch of I-94 in the Jackson, Mich., area.
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) plans to reconstruct 1.4 miles of freeway between Lansing Avenue and Elm Road, resurface 3.5 miles between Lansing Avenue and...
ODOT was able to merge 25 years of road and bridge work into just four due to innovative financing.
OHIO:
A fantastic fury
Bill Wilson, Editorial Director
Located in northwest Ohio, the city of Toledo has just as many University of Michigan devotees as it does Ohio State University fans.
The area is used to times of fury, but non-stop for four years straight? Hard to imagine, but it is all...
Improvements to I-80 were deemed critical in a regional transportation proposal by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP).
The agency’s “On to 2050" Transportation Plan also placed the proposed Illiana toll road on the back burner. The updated plan calls for $72.7 billion in...
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A new report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group identifies nine wasteful highway expansion projects across the country, slated collectively to cost at least $30 billion.
The report details how most highway expansions fail to solve congestion, saddle states with crippling debt, and...
On April 7, a significant landslide resulted in the closure of Pennsylvania S.R. 30 in Allegheny County. The route is a principal artery to Pittsburgh and supports more than 22,000 vehicles per day. The slide demolished one apartment building, severely damaged another, and impacted a single-family...
The city of Toledo, Ohio, announced Tuesday it would contribute up to $1 million toward the I-475/U.S. 23 interchange at Dorr Street.
City officials said this project serves as a corridor to new commerce and transportation. The money will come from Toledo's capital improvement fund. Workers would...
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) officials are looking to reopen a stretch of SH 1 in the Big Sur coastal region this summer that was blocked last year by a massive landslide.
The road that connects Los Angeles to San Francisco was projected to open in mid-September but Caltrans...
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is looking into ways it could shave two or more years off the I-440 reconstruction at Nashville if it closes road segments rather than following traditional construction methods.
TDOT says it plans to explore an option in which only one segment of...
