CEG - Mon June 30, 2025
New $107M Connector Road Opens in Brewer, Maine Linking I-395 to State Highway 9
The long-awaited Interstate 395/Maine Highway 9 Connector finally opened to traffic June 27, 2025, after years of construction. The 6-mi. stretch of road had been in the planning stages for more than two decades and under construction since 2017 north and east of the town of Brewer, across the Penobscot River from Bangor....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Mon June 16, 2025
Summit County Project Will Increase Safety
In Summit County's Bath and Richfield townships, construction continues on a project designed to improve safety by adding an additional lane in each direction on I-77 from Everett Road to State Route 21....
Orlando Sentinel - Wed June 11, 2025
State Lawmakers Fund Another $1.7B to Add Capacity to Central Florida's Interstate 4 Corridor
The State of Florida is taking additional steps to speed up congestion relief along the busy Interstate 4 tourist corridor around the Orlando area. In early June 2025, Florida lawmakers voted to expedite the construction of two express lanes on the freeway's busiest stretch in Osceola and Polk counties as well as a separate road project that will better connect I-4 to the rest of Osceola County's transportation network....
Reviewjournal.com - Tue June 10, 2025
$160M Widening Project On 215 Beltway to Begin in Nev.
Work is set to start on a $160 million project to widen about 3 mi. of the 215 Beltway in Henderson, Nev., according to review-journal.comDignitaries participated on May 28, 2025, in a groundbreaking ceremony for a project that also will modify Green Valley Parkway over the highway over the next three years....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 10, 2025
West Texas I-20 Widening Moves Forward
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is investing $424 million into its Interstate 20 Widening Project that covers several miles in Ector and Midland counties, deep in the heart of the oil-rich Permian Basin in West Texas....
Keri White - CEG Correspondent - Tue June 10, 2025
Orange County SR 55 Improvement Moves Forward
The Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55) is undergoing a significant upgrade to improve traffic flow and reduce travel time in the 4 mi. stretch between Interstate 405 and Interstate 5. The roadway has four regular lanes and one carpool lane in each direction as well as merge lanes between some interchanges....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 05, 2025
Louisiana Closes in On Completion of $123M I-20 Project
The Louisiana Department of Transportation (LaDOTD) worked long and hard to get a traffic management plan approved so they could proceed with reconstruction work on a 3.5-mi. section of Interstate 20 through Bossier City....
MoDOT - Tue June 03, 2025
MHTC Selects Radmacher-Ideker JV for MoDOT's Third Improve I-70 Project
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) has selected the Radmacher-Ideker Joint Venture team as the apparent best-value proposer and design-build contractor of the next project in MoDOT's Improve I-70 program....
Washington State Department of Transportation - Fri May 23, 2025
Crews Stabilize Slopes, Clear Debris From SR 11 Rockslide
Work began in early May 2025 to stabilize and clear a significant rockslide that sent thousands of cubic yards of debris across both directions of State Route 11/Chuckanut Drive, closing the road on April 22, 2025, just south of milepost 10 near Blanchard Road by Bow, Wash....
Larry Bernstein – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed May 21, 2025
MDOT's SR 15 Expansion Ahead of Schedule
In the spring of 2012, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) scheduled a project in Union County in the northeastern part of the state. However, two other projects came up that the state determined were more necessary....
