The New York Times » Long before the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, last year, killing 43 people, an economics professor named Marco Ponti took aim at the private company that managed the structure, raising two fundamental concerns. One was money. Mr. Ponti argued that Autostrade per l’Italia, or Highways for Italy, which managed the bridge […]
News-Press Now » The Georgia Department of Transportation is partially responsible for a fire that caused a section of interstate to collapse last year in Atlanta, federal investigators said in a report released Wednesday. The National Transportation Safety Board said in the report that the department’s decision to store construction materials under the bridge increased the risk […]
The New York Times » Hours before the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University on Thursday, the engineering company for the bridge held a meeting to discuss a crack on the structure, according to a statement from the university released early Saturday.
Penn Live » Federal Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) investigators have cited a private contractor, Francis J. Palo Inc., for serious violations and oversights which may have led to the collapse of a 103-year old bridge in Elk County, Pennsylvania during its $2.2 million renovation and replacement. The bridge work has been completed, but an investigation […]
Trib Total Media » Article investigates the challenge that Pennsylvania is facing when it comes to funding infrastructure repairs with a specific focus on the impact this will have on the state’s bridges. Because the state lacks the money to repair the more than 4,500 structurally deficient bridges it owns, decision has been made to increase […]
Washington Post » The collapse of the Skagit River Bridge in the state of Washington has revived the debate on transportation funding in the US. This article investigates the current state of funding for transportation infrastructure and finds that the level of funding has been in sharp decline since about 2008. The primary reason for this […]