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Fri June 09, 2017
FMCB OKs $92.8M to Rehabilitate Wellington Facility
The MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) approved a contract with Barletta Heavy Division Inc., for the construction of improvements to the Wellington Maintenance Facility, which will prepare the location for the arrival of new Orange Line vehicles....

Lori Tobias - Fri June 09, 2017
Oldest Masonry Bridge in Rhode Island Gets a Makeover
Work is under way to rehabilitate the oldest masonry bridge in Rhode Island. The historic Slatersville Stone Arch Bridge was built in 1855, but has been deemed structurally deficient since 2007, and because of that, a 20-ton weight limit is in place....

Thu June 08, 2017
Taxes, Bond Proposals Would Invest $1.1B in Oklahoma City
More than $1.1 billion in funding for streets, police, firefighters and other basic needs and an annual injection of $26 million for day-to-day operations are included in sales tax and bond proposals under consideration by the Oklahoma City Council....

Debbie Jackson - Thu June 08, 2017
Oklahoma's Avery Drive: The Long Road to Completion
TULSA, Okla. (AP) Cyrus Avery called it his favorite road. To some, it was “the road to nowhere.' Still others felt it should never have been built. Since 1958, the 3.5-mi., two-lane scenic byway has been known as Avery Drive, named for the man most remembered as the father of the Mother Road, Historic Route 66....

Wed June 07, 2017
U.S. 34 Reconstruction in Colorado Hits Halfway Mark
The significant amount of work done in the Big Thompson Canyon since last October when U.S. 34 closed to through traffic means the project is not only halfway done, but that the Colorado Department of Transportation and Kiewit Infrastructure Co....

Wed June 07, 2017
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) Construction crews in California have begun demolishing the destroyed portion of the main spillway at Oroville Dam as they race to repair the structure in time for the next rainy season, state water officials and construction managers said....

Chuck Harvey - Wed June 07, 2017
Changes Coming to Santa Barbara Roads
Workers are building two new highway overcrossings as part of California's $60 million Highway 101, Linden and Casitas Pass Project that includes local circulation improvements and key bridge replacements in preparation for future Highway 101 widening....

Wayne Parry - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed June 07, 2017
Help Arrives for Sandy-Wrecked Town as Others Resist Dunes
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) In one of the largest beach repair projects in U.S. history, the federal government has begun dumping so much sand on a stretch of the New Jersey shore that it could fill a football stadium more than five times over. Yet even this $128 million project isn't enough to repair the damage Superstorm Sandy did to the Jersey shore....

Scott McFetridge - Wed June 07, 2017
Climate Change Raises New Risk … Are Inland Bridges Too Low?
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A century-old train trestle stands as one of the trophies of Des Moines' push to spruce up its downtown. Bicyclists and pedestrians pose for pictures beside the brightly painted beams of the Red Bridge and gather on viewing platforms overlooking the Des Moines River....

ERICA WERNER - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed June 07, 2017
Trump Infrastructure Push Faces Resistance
WASHINGTON (AP) Repairing the nation's crumbling roads and bridges was supposed to be an area ripe for bipartisan compromise between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump. Instead, Democrats are panning Trump's proposed $1 trillion overhaul, the White House is signaling plans to go it alone, and even Republicans are balking at some aspects of the emerging plan....
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