The US 70 Gila River Bridge near Bylas, Arizona is the state’s fourth longest bridge, measuring 1,829 feet in length. ADOT has replaced the original bridge, built in 1957, with a new bridge. The $12.7 million project features wider travel lanes, emergency shoulders and a pedestrian walkway. – ArizonaDOT on YouTube
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Bylas, AZ: Gila River Bridge
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013The New York Times: D-Plus Solutions For D-Plus Problems
Monday, March 25th, 2013
April 19th: A Resilient Region – RPA’s 23rd Annual Assembly
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
The New York metropolitan region has thrived in recent years even as it has been buffeted by economic and environmental pressures. Yet three urgent challenges – climate change, declining economic opportunity and fiscal uncertainty in the public sector – threaten to derail the region’s continued progress. RPA’s 23rd annual Assembly, “A Resilient Region,” will examine these pressing problems and shed light on the best strategies to overcome them and ensure the region’s continued success.
View this complete post...Richmond, VA: I-95 North Bridge Replacement
Thursday, March 21st, 2013The Interstate 95 North bridge over Overbrook Road (at mile marker 77) was replaced March 15-18, 2013, as part of a major project to restore 11 bridges along the I-95 corridor in Richmond, Va. This time-lapse video from shows crews replacing the nine bridge sections. For more information about the I-95 Richmond Bridge Restorations project, […]
View this complete post...Wanted: A Reasoned Approach to Dealing with America’s Infrastructure Needs
Thursday, March 21st, 2013Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 24, No. 4
It seems like not a week goes by without fresh warnings about the nation’s “crumbling infrastructure” and renewed appeals to rebuild our aging highways and bridges. President Obama reinvigorated the campaign with his State-of-the-Union proposal for a $50 billion program of infrastructure investments, $40 billion of which would be devoted to a “fix-it-first” program targeted at urgent improvements such as “structurally deficient” bridges.
Marble Falls, TX: US-281 Bridge Demolition
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013Demolition of the old US 281 bridge in Marble Falls Texas on the morning of March 17th 2013. – Ando22RE on YouTube
View this complete post...Reactions to the ASCE 2013 Report Card on America’s Infrastructure
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Transportation for America’s Director James Corless: “Our country’s association of civil engineers continues to do the yeoman’s work of sounding the alarm on our country’s infrastructure — the roads, rails and waterways that we depend on to move our goods from place to place and get us where we need to go each day. But […]
View this complete post...Thinking Big, Planning Smart: A Primer for Greater Washington’s Next Generation of Transit
Friday, March 15th, 2013
COALITION FOR SMARTER GROWTH
Without Metro, it’s estimated our region would need approximately 710 lane-miles of additional highway lanes at a capital cost of $4.7 billion,1 causing severe impacts in terms of homes taken for highway expansion. Proximity to Metro is estimated to have sparked some $212 billion in regional real estate value2, and it’s played a key role in helping older suburbs stave off the inner- suburban decline seen in other cities around the U.S. It’s had a central role in the rebirth of Washington, D.C.
Missouri DOT: Pothole Patrole 2013
Thursday, March 14th, 2013Montana DOT: Where the Wildlife Meets the Road
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013Video courtesy of Montana PBS – Montana JournalThe series is produced by the students of the School of Journalism and the Department of Radio-TV at The University of Montana, Missoula. –MontanaDOT on YouTube.
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