Roads
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The city of Cleveland has been up-and-coming for going on two decades now, and a significant contributor to this growth and enrichment has been smart investment in infrastructure—investment that sets community needs as priority one.
“The Lakefront West Project was a partnership between the Ohio...
Gathering Place, Tulsa’s Riverfront Park is a 66.5-acre park located in the heart of Tulsa, Okla.
It skirts the Arkansas River and is adjacent to a smattering of residential developments.
The City of Tulsa funded and administered the surrounding infrastructure projects through a sales tax and...
U.S. 17 is a major north-south arterial in the state of Florida, and provides the most direct route between Orlando and the southwest part of the state. Traversing through the cities of Punta Gorda, Arcadia, Zolfo Springs, Wauchula, Fort Meade and Bartow, the corridor serves as a major trucking...
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Lane Construction Corp. has won a design-build contract in Florida to construct the Wekiva Parkway (Section 8) in Seminole County.
The contract, valued at $253 million, supports Lane’s recently renewed strategy in the U.S., which is focused on building large-scale, complex infrastructure. Lane...
The Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA), the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 4 announced the start of construction on a new southbound Express Lane on I-680 that will stretch 11 miles from south of Marina...
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...
State officials recently announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is aiming to increase opportunities for Small Business Enterprises (SBE) through a new pilot program where SBEs can compete to work as prime consultants on federally assisted engineering and design...
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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 Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s latest eight-year construction plan includes a major Tulsa project.
An $80 million project on I-44 west of the Arkansas River should go out for bid sometime in federal fiscal year 2021. The project was awarded a $45 million federal infrastructure grant...
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 Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel sees 11,000 vehicle crossings per day, which increases to 25,000 daily crossings during the peak summer season.
When it opened in 1964, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was considered one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world—incorporating two-lane bridges and tunnels for vehicular traffic to get from southern Virginia to the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware.
The 17.6-mile vehicular toll...
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Cargill is partnering with the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) in Opelika, Ala., and the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) MnROAD program in Albertville, Minn., to determine how to best implement performance-engineered mix design procedures, especially in mixes...
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...
The I-95 widening project added two travel lanes from north of S.R. 44 to north of U.S. 92, and reconstructed interchanges at I-4, I-95 and U.S. 92.
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main interstate highway on the East Coast of the U.S., running for almost 2,000 miles.
The state of Florida sees 382 miles of I-95 pass through its borders, where the southernmost portions transport traffic along the state’s Atlantic coast. The Florida Department of...
A Louisiana State University (LSU) team’s work with a shape memory polymer could potentially not only save the state’s roads but also money and time, according to a post from the school's College of Engineering.
In 2009, LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Guoqiang Li received a grant from the...
A plan on how to spend $4 billion on highway and transit projects over the next six years was adopted Thursday by the Wasatch Front Regional Council in Utah.
Projects newly added to the council's list, which is updated annually, range from the new West Davis Corridor freeway in Davis and Weber...
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...