FHWA Awards $8.4 Million to Nine States for Innovative Highway Projects WASHINGTON – The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced $8.4 million in Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration awards to the state Departments of Transportation in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Utah. Projects will soon be under way in […]
MDOT presents final three options at Falls Bridge public meeting Seven years after the Maine Department of Transportation tapped Falls Bridge in South Blue Hill for replacement or major repair work, the 1926 tied arch bridge is inching closer to placing hammer to steel, after MDOT, Federal Highway Administration officials, and an eight-member citizen advisory committee spent 18 […]
In the shadow of the GWB NJDOT’s contracted project team developed an innovative maintenance and protection of traffic (MPT) plan and used time-saving accelerated bridge construction (ABC) techniques for the $4.3 million federally funded bridge reconstruction. ABC methods incorporate combinations of innovative designs and construction techniques to minimize the amount of time traffic is disrupted […]
Eastbound Poplar bridge above I-240 completed Tennessee Department of Transportation is using accelerated bridge construction to repair four bridges along 240, so even though construction is fast, TDOT stressed the new bridges are safe to drive on.
Shortening the Long Road for West Virginia Bridge Replacements Historically, building roads across the Mountain State has proven an arduous task. So when the West Virginia Parkways Authority undertook an ambitious 30-year deck replacement program on the West Virginia Turnpike, it looked for alternative methods to ease the pain. WVPA plans to use accelerated bridge […]
Bridge replacement work big part of $43 million in Lancaster County PennDOT projects The three-year Rapid Bridge Replacement Project began in 2016, when the county had 133 structurally deficient bridges. That meant 18 percent of the 727 state-maintained bridges in Lancaster County were in need of replacement. So far, 20 bridges have been replaced through […]
Temporary barrier helps accelerated bridge construction on West Virginia Turnpike The West Virginia Turnpike, an 88-mile four-lane toll road including stretches of I-77 and I-64, is a winding and elevated highway through mountainous terrain. There are 116 bridges on the Turnpike, and prior to 2016, the average bridge age was 32 years old. In 2016, […]
Comm. Ave. bridge project in Boston prompts Mass. Pike traffic warning The construction is a bit of a repeat from last summer’s 20-day replacement of the eastbound side of the bridge and Green Line infrastructure. And the major impacts are condensed into a tight time frame. Crews will work 24 hours a day, and the […]
Route 250 bridge at Ivy to close July 13 for two-week replacement project Western Albemarle commuters will face a challenge for two weeks in July when the Virginia Department of Transportation closes the bridge over Little Ivy Creek near Ivy west of Charlottesville. The closure, which begins Friday, July 13, is necessary to replace the deteriorating […]
I-240 Project Will Replace Four Bridges The Tennessee Department of Transportation will begin replacing a set of four 50-year-old bridges over Interstate 240 in East Memphis next month. … The project to replace the Park Avenue, Norfolk Southern Railroad, eastbound Poplar Avenue and westbound Poplar Avenue bridges, called MemFix 4, will use an “accelerated bridge […]
