– RIDOTwebmaster on YouTube About the Sakonnet River Bridge Project “Construction is well underway on a $163.7 million project to replace the aging Sakonnet River Bridge, which carries Route 24 between Tiverton and Portsmouth. The bridge currently has a posted weight of limit of 18 tons, requiring trucks, buses, and other large vehicles to use […]
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Portsmoutth, RI: The Sakonnet River Bridge Project
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012One Design – 10,000 Bridges
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Road Connection Video – For Better Roads and Bridges in the U.S.
Monday, February 13th, 2012The first of the series. These videos are designed to give you some serious knowledge about the strain being put on our national highway system. To help make positive change, visit www.theroadconnection.org and contact your congress member. – BulkInside on YouTube
View this complete post...Prince, WV: Thomas Buford Pugh Memorial Bridge Restrictions
Thursday, February 9th, 2012Safety concerns have lead to some restrictions on the Thomas Buford Pugh Memorial Bridge in Prince, West Virginia. The WV Division of Highways is looking into the possibility of closing the bridge. Publice Hearing: February 15, 2012 at the Prince Amtrak Station from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. There will be no formal meeting. – TheWVDOT […]
View this complete post...Troy, OH: Adams Street Bridge Construction
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012February 6th, 2012. One of the first arches is raised during the construction of the Adams Street Bridge project in Troy, Ohio. Each one of these concrete molded beams was individually transported one per semi. – 003sullivan on YouTube
View this complete post...Pottawattamie County, IA: Keg Creek Bridge Replacement
Monday, February 6th, 2012(Re-posted with permission from Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2)) This time-lapse video shows accelerated bridge construction (ABC) techniques being used by a local contractor with standard equipment to replace a three-span bridge on U.S. 6 over Keg Creek in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. The $2.7 million reconstruction project is a cooperative effort involving FHWA, the […]
View this complete post...New York City, NY: Henry Hudson Bridge Stringer Replacement
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012MTA Bridges and Tunnels’ Henry Hudson Bridge is undergoing work to replace decades-old structural elements. – mtainfo on YouTube
View this complete post...2012 Pocket Guide to Transportation
Monday, January 30th, 2012U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration produces the Pocket Guide to Transportation as a compact resource that provides snapshots of the U.S. transportation system and highlights major transportation trends.
Phoenix, AZ: Loop 303/Greenway Road Construction Bypass
Friday, January 27th, 2012Uploaded by ArizonaDOT on YouTube.
Remember this awesome time-lapse video showing the construction of a temporary bypass at Greenway Road and the Loop 303?
Well, today we’ve got an even more in-depth look at how crews built the new intersection – complete with temporary barriers, fences and traffic signals – in just about 43 hours!
View this complete post...Illinois to Missouri: The New Mississippi River Bridge
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Construction work on the Mississippi River Bridge project has begun.The new Mississippi River Bridge is the first bridge built connecting downtown St. Louis and southwestern Illinois in more than 40 years. Currently, the only urban interstate bridge between Illinois and Missouri is the Poplar Street Bridge, known locally as the PSB. The PSB is one […]
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