The Orange County Register » Just about every major highway in Southern California has a plan to improve. The largest of those is the widening of the I-405 Freeway, slated to begin this Friday, Jan. 26. The plan calls for 18 bridge replacements plus new and widened bridges. Five bridges will be closed to traffic at times […]
The Daily Item » The Department of Transportation has asked its private sector partners to put the pedal to metal in replacing more than 500 structurally deficient bridges. More than 1-in-4 bridges targeted by the public-private partnership were not done by the 2017 deadline to finish the job.
Better Roads » The Indiana Department of Transportation reports success with slide-in bridge construction, a process that allowed the agency to replace two bridges on Interstate 70 within eight days each.
Equipment World’s Better Roads » A 49-year-old concrete bridge in the Big Sur community of California that collapsed from a landslide has been replaced after eight months, the state’s department of transportation reports. Caltrans used accelerate bridge construction for the first time to build the new State Route 1 Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge.
Equipment World’s Better Roads » The Connecticut Department of Transportation used accelerated bridge construction to replace a bridge on Route 8. The process helped trim lane closures to two 14-day segments rather than two years, and a time-lapse video shows the work.
WCPO Cincinnati » Watch close-up as the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is (partially) blown up.