After 1,500 man hours of backbreaking work and innovative engineering, the old familiar hum of traffic returned to N.C. 12 when the N.C. Department of Transportation reopened the road on Oct. 10. It was an important moment for residents and signaled a huge step forward in the recovery efforts made by NCDOT following Hurricane Irene.
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A STEP FORWARD: N.C. 12 reopens
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011Medina, Washington: State Route 520 Girder Installation
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Crews spent Oct. 15-17, 2011, installing 24 huge girders above State Route 520 in Medina, Wash., as part of a new overpass that will have a park and ride, transit access, landscaping and paths. Shorter 48-ton girders now span the eastbound lanes and longer, 106-ton girders span the westbound lanes. Girders were trucked north on […]
View this complete post...Discretionary Grant Programs: State by State
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
FY 2011 Discretionary Program Awards: Alternative Analysis (AA), State of Good Repair (SOGP), & Bus Livability
Lehi to Spanish Fork, Utah: I-15 CORE Lane Shifts
Monday, October 17th, 2011Several lane shifts are currently in place along I-15 CORE from Lehi to Spanish Fork. These lane shifts allow crews to complete freeway reconstruction along the entire 24-mile project by December 2012. Drivers should plan ahead, stay alert, and follow all posted signs and speed limits when traveling through construction zones. In areas where lanes […]
View this complete post...President’s Jobs Council: Invest Aggressively in Transportation
Monday, October 17th, 2011Transportation Issues Daily AASHTO, the national association of State DOTs, reports in their weekly transportation report: “While debate about job creation continued in Washington this week, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met Tuesday in Pittsburgh. The council released a report urging the federal government to “invest aggressively and efficiently in cutting-edge infrastructure.” The […]
View this complete post...Highway Trust Fund: All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes from 2005 to 2009
Friday, October 14th, 2011
US GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE What GAO Found From 2005 to 2009, every state received more funding for highway programs than they contributed to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund. This was possible because more funding was authorized and apportioned than was collected from the states, and the fund was augmented with about $30 […]
View this complete post...Congestion Data for Your City
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
Each regional map has dots linking to a file containing the Urban Mobility and Congestion Statistics—congestion index, travel delay, fuel consumption, congestion cost—for every city included in the study. The files are in PDF format. You can get the numbers—all the numbers—for each of the 101 cities. You can also view the national congestion tables which provide comparison measurements for all 101 cities included in the study.
Reinventing the Urban Interstate: A New Paradigm for Multimodal Corridors
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM
The objectives of this research were to (1) evaluate the potential for rehabilitating and reconstructing portions of interstate freeways and similar freeways in the urbanized areas in the United States as new paradigm multimodal transportation facilities and (2) develop strategies to plan and implement these facilities. These facilities might be better used by people, if the facilities offer passenger mobility by multiple modes and are better integrated into
communities.
Richmond, Virginia: I-95 Bridge Restoration Project
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Learn more about the project to replace 11 bridges on a seven-mile stretch of Interstate 95 near Richmond. Visit http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/richmond/i-95_bridges.asp – vdotweb on YouTube
View this complete post...Who Will Design and Build Future Transportation Network?
Friday, October 7th, 2011Transportation Issues Daily The transportation industry is facing serious workforce issues: 50% of the current workforce is or will become eligible for retirement over the next 10 years Increased competition from other fields for a smaller pool of skilled workers Substantially different skill sets and abilities to respond to rapidly changing demands and a transforming […]
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