StreetsblogMASS - Mon May 13, 2024
Boston's Transit, Bicycle Riders Likely to Get More Space On Back Bay Streets in 2024
Boston transportation planners hosted a meeting May 2 to discuss their plans to add more bike lanes and bus lanes to various streets in the city's Back Bay neighborhood, which is currently a significant bottleneck for frequent-service bus routes and a major gap in the Massachusetts capital's growing network of protected bike lanes....
Urbanize New York & NYC - Thu May 09, 2024
Ground Broken at Site of Lower Manhattan's $200M Battery Coastal Resiliency Project
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other local officials broke ground May 6 on the Battery Coastal Resilience Project, a $200 million effort to protect Lower Manhattan from coastal storms and other impacts of climate change....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu May 09, 2024
North Causeway Bridge Offers Innovation, Congestion Relief for Fort Pierce, Fla., Motorists
Built in 1963, the drawbridge in Fort Pierce, Fla., is structurally deficient. Vecellio & Grogan of Beckley, W.V., is building the new North Causeway Bridge, which incorporates innovations that will benefit pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and boaters....
CEG - Thu May 09, 2024
VIDEO: Connecticut Officials Celebrate Rapid Reopening of I-95 Bridge After Destructive Fire
Connecticut officials on May 6 praised first responders and construction crews who worked through the previous weekend to get a stretch of Interstate 95 in Norwalk reopened to traffic following a tractor-trailer fire under the structure early on May 2....
West Virginia Division of Highways - Thu May 09, 2024
Several Major Road, Bridge Projects in W. Va. to Be Finished by Spring of 2025
Three major long-term highway projects undertaken by the West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) are nearing completion later this year or in early 2025 with the promise to improve safety and driving conditions for decades to come, the agency announced May 7....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 08, 2024
Missouri's $284M Chester Bridge Under Construction
For 80 years, Missouri's Chester Bridge has allowed motorists to drive both east and west across the Mississippi River. Although it's still considered safe for travel, the structure has become less functional for modern vehicles and needs to be replaced....
WeBuild Group - Mon May 06, 2024
Webuild Ready to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
A new, safe and innovative cable-stayed bridge to redefine the entrance to the historic port of Baltimore City, a key hub for American logistics. This is the project presented pro bono by Webuild, with its U.S....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Thu May 02, 2024
Reconstruction of Frank J. Wood Bridge in Maine Under Way
The Maine Department of Transportation has begun onsite construction to replace the Frank J. Wood Bridge. The bridge carries Route 201 over the Androscoggin River between Brunswick and Topsham. The lead contractor on this project is Reed & Reed of Woolwich, Maine, and H.B....
WSB-TV & Georgia Department of Transportation - Thu May 02, 2024
Georgia DOT Closes Major DeKalb County Road for 90 Days at I-85 for Bridge Replacement
A busy stretch of Georgia Highway 42/North Druid Hills Road in DeKalb County has shut down for the next three months, the state's Department of Transportation (GDOT) announced during the last full week of April....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 01, 2024
Two Firms Give Burned Highway New Life
A severe blaze beneath a section of the I-10 in downtown Los Angeles late last year closed one of the city's busiest highways for several days, but herculean efforts by two general contractors and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) engineering and emergency teams allowed the road to reopen weeks in advance of a much longer anticipated delay....
