
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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There are several steps involved in the removal and replacement of the highway surface and sub-structure.
Shifting traffic — Crews establish a work zone and work with paint and barrier wall crews.
Demolishing the road — There are several parts involved in this process and they include milling, or removing the asphalt, breaking the concrete, moving the material out of the way and then crushing it.
Pipe installation — This involves digging up and removing old pipe and installing new pipe.
A 150-ton rock is bolted to the face of a cliff to keep the rock from falling to the roadway on Highway 58, eighteen miles east of Oakridge, OR.
View this complete post...Sometimes you can only appreciate good infrastructure from an aerial vantage point. Here, the Louisiana Department of Transportation sends a drone into the air above the town of Hammond to capture pixel-perfect views of a series of roundabouts–some already in use–along Club Deluxe Road.
View this complete post...Like sewage treatment, Quality Management isn’t exactly the most scintillating subject on the planet. But it matters greatly in all the work we do at UDOT. Why? We thought you’d never ask!
View this complete post...These days GPS makes a transportation planner’s research effort much easier. Until now access to the data created wasn’t so easy. Watch the video to see how FHWA’s Office of Planning, Environment and Realty’s Research Program teamed with U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to access secure travel data on the web.
View this complete post...ODOT has made enough progress on the east side of this project to open it to traffic. The contractor is getting ready to shut down for winter and pick up in 2016 for the final work.
View this complete post...AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (ARTBA)
This report examines how investments in the United States’ transportation infrastructure stimulate business activity and government revenues throughout the nation…The results spotlight the unique and synergistic nature of transportation capital investments—how they trigger immediate economic activity that creates and sustains jobs and tax revenues, yet yield long-lived capital assets that facilitate economic activity for many decades to come by providing access to jobs, services, materials and markets.
The roadway between Carson City and Lake Tahoe was constructed in 1957 in preparation for the 1960 U.S. Olympics in Squaw Valley. Part of the Clear Creek Watershed, erosion has become a serious problem over the years, prompting NDOT to make some significant erosion control and stormwater improvements. James Murphy of NDOT’s Stormwater Management Program explains the benefits of the much needed project.
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