A new Seven Mile Bridge is in the works for the Florida Keys. What the state has planned This week, Monroe County leaders said a replacement for the 40-year-old Seven Mile Bridge could be coming by early next decade. A new bridge is slated to come after projects scheduled in the Florida Department of Transportation’s […]
ALDOT plans to move forward with Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project The Eastern Shore and Mobile Metropolitan Planning Organizations today announced that the Alabama Department of Transportation will move forward with the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project, prior to knowing the results of outstanding applications for federal Mega Grant and Bridge Investment Program […]
MaineDOT: $20M Portland I-295 bridge project finished The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) announced on Tuesday that the $20.8 million Veranda Street Bridge project is substantially complete. Conventional bridge construction techniques would have involved building a temporary bridge and would have likely created daily traffic congestion on I-295 for up to four years. MaineDOT says […]
WV 20 in Hinton reopen following WVDOH marathon bridge-building session Engineers with the West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) have been hard at work designing a solution for a massive sinkhole impacting Route 20 in the Summers County town of Hinton, where bridge crews from several counties gathered this past weekend to erect a temporary […]
Second Pontiac Ave. bridge slide successfully completed Workers demolished the old Pontiac bridge Friday night as the Rhode Island Department of Transportation prepared for Saturday’s bridge slide. St. Martin said that while the bridge was closed the entire weekend, the alternative was having this project take years and shifting traffic lanes while building the bridge […]
PENNDOT Announces Country Club Bridge Replacement Project The project is currently in the preliminary engineering phase with the expectation of starting the final design phase in early 2023. The project is anticipated to let (i.e., bids for construction to be opened) during the first half of 2024 with the traffic detour implemented in the summer […]
Biden-Harris Administration Sending States Nearly $60 Billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for America’s Roads and Bridges The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced that it has released $59.9 billion in Fiscal Year 2023 apportionments for 12 formula programs to support investment in critical infrastructure, including roads, bridges and tunnels, carbon […]
Governor McKee, Senators Reed and Whitehouse, FHWA and RIDOT Break Ground for the East Bay Bike Path Bridges Governor Dan McKee, United States Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Federal Highway Administrator Carlos C. Machado, and Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Peter Alviti, Jr. today gathered with other state and local […]
Work begins to replace I-95 bridge over Saugatuck Avenue Work has begun to prepare the area around Interstate 95 at Exit 17 for a major bridge replacement project and other improvements. One phase will build temporary supports for two work areas on Saugatuck Avenue on each side of I-95. That’s where two new spans will […]
Parkways will use accelerated replacement process to fix 3 Turnpike bridges this fall The West Virginia Parkways Authority has plans to replace three bridge decks this fall by using Accelerated Bridge Deck Replacement process that speeds up the work. Parkways Authority Engineering Consultant Randy Epperly said by doing it that way it takes only a […]
