Alabama NewsCenter - Thu April 18, 2024
VIDEO: Birmingham, Ala., Awarded $14.5M Fed Grant to Revitalize Its 'Black Main Street'
A $14.5 million grant from the federal government was awarded to Birmingham, Ala., that will restore two-way traffic to Fourth Avenue North in the city's historic Black business district. On hand to make the April 3 announcement was U.S....
CEG Staff - Thu April 18, 2024
Cranes Begin Unloading Dali After Key Bridge Collapse
Workers have begun using cranes to offload containers from the Dali, the 100,000-ton vessel that crashed into Baltimore's Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, and sent major sections of the bridge plunging into the waters of the Patapsco River....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Wed April 17, 2024
American Bridge Co. Leads Conn.'s East Haddam Swing Bridge Project
Construction of the East Haddam swing bridge, which carries Route 82 over the Connecticut River, began in fall 2022 and work is continuing on the project with a completion date of Feb. 25, 2025, according to CTDOT....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 17, 2024
Larry Young Paving Tackles Grade-Separated Interchange in Texas
Texas-based general contractor Larry Young Paving (LYP) is making steady progress and will deliver the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) SH 6 and FM 2 Intersection Project in Grimes County this upcoming winter....
ADOT - Wed April 17, 2024
Officials Approve Final Federal Assessment for Highway Project
Plans to expand 26 mi. of Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Casa Grande are moving forward following environmental approval late last week. The widening project will increase capacity and reduce congestion on a busy section of I-10 near Wild Horse Pass within the Gila River Indian Community....
American Society of Civil Engineers - Mon April 15, 2024
Thomas Viaduct Railroad Bridge Recognized as National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) dedicated a marker recognizing the Thomas Viaduct in Elkridge, Md., as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. The Thomas Viaduct is the first multiple-arch stone railroad viaduct built on a curving span in the United States....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 11, 2024
VDOT Oversees $3.9B Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Project
With more than 1,300 construction professionals working on a daily basis, the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) expansion project continues reaching milestones as it inches toward a 2025 finish line. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is overseeing the $3.9 billion effort, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the nation....
CT Insider - Wed April 10, 2024
Engineers Give Connecticut Residents An Idea of What West Hartford Center Will Like in 2026
As plans to revamp the West Hartford Center are under way, residents of the Connecticut city are now beginning to get an idea of what their buzzing center of town could look like in the future. "What we have in the center is very, very special," said West Hartford Town Manager Rick Ledwith at a project update meeting April 8....
Streetsblog NYC - Wed April 10, 2024
New York City DOT Unveils Plans for Its Queensboro Bridge Pedestrian Upgrades
The streets on both ends of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge over the East River in New York will be remade this summer into safer, people-first spaces as part of the long-awaited reopening of the span's south outer roadway, designed to finally give cyclists and pedestrians a separate path to walk and ride on....
Delaware Live & DRBA - Tue April 09, 2024
Delaware Memorial Bridge's 'Dolphins' Designed to Stop Big Ships From Striking It
Could it happen here?That is the question Delawareans have been asking since watching the horrific images of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing after a cargo ship rammed it last month....
