John Hennessy III,
P.E.
Transportation Issues Daily
Massachusetts is considering a ten-year, $19 billion bond bill to fund road, bridge projects and transit. The bill is sponsored by the Governor and is currently under review by the Legislature. While most of the revenue is directed to state highways, the proposal also includes $300 million in annual grant funding for cities and towns to pave and repair roads, an increase from the current $200 million.
AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Public transportation is a $57 billion industry in the United States. Public transportation itself includes a broad, interconnected set of modes including local and commuter bus service, subways, paratransit, light rail, streetcars, commuter rail, bus rapid transit, and high-performance intercity passenger rail. It provides essential public benefits, and accordingly receives support from government. At the same time, public transportation is an attractive market for business partnerships, and such relationships have always been present on both capital and operating functions.
Cities throughout King County are installing new types of bicycle facilities to create a safer, more pleasant environment for cycling. Bike boxes, shared transit/bicycle lanes, transit islands and streetcar tracks are just some of them where cyclists and transit operators need to be prepared for each other’s movements. –KCDOTVideo on YouTube.
View this complete post...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
View this complete post...Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) contractors will begin the rehabilitation of the historic Longfellow Bridge, which links Boston and Cambridge in the spring of 2013. The project will be completed in six phases. This seven and a half minute animation with music vividly portrays the process of reconstructing the bridge serving vehicles, the MBTA Red […]
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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...The 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, […]
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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.
Demolition of the old US 281 bridge in Marble Falls Texas on the morning of March 17th 2013. – Ando22RE on YouTube
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