Ventura County Star » Adding carpool lanes to help relieve congestion on Highway 101 is one of the Ventura County Transportation Commission’s highest-priority projects. So even though the estimated $750 million to $2 billion in funds to build the lanes haven’t been identified yet, the commission on Friday took the first significant step toward possibly making them […]
Dallas News » Funds to improve three highway logjams are being used as leverage to persuade the Texas Transportation Commission to build LBJ East, the 10.8 miles of Interstate 635 between Interstate 30 and Central Expressway that has been deemed the region’s top transportation project. The three potentially endangered projects are the Interstate 30 bridge over Lake […]
Hartford Courant » Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to announce his support for electronic highway tolls and an increase in the gasoline tax to pay for road projects as he unveils his transportation plan Wednesday, officials said. The proposal calls for an increase in the state’s gasoline tax by 7 cents per gallon, phased in over […]
Los Angeles Times » More than 400 guests celebrated the Orange County Transportation Authority’s groundbreaking for a $1.9-billion 405 Freeway expansion project during an elaborate event Friday in Costa Mesa. The project will affect the 16-mile portion of the 405 between the 73 Freeway in Costa Mesa and the 605 Freeway near Rossmoor. It is expected to […]
Washington’s Top News » Tolls for the I-66 Express Lanes hit another eyebrow-raising number Wednesday morning. Single drivers who began the nine-mile trip from the Beltway to Rosslyn or D.C. at 8:30 a.m. were charged $46.75, among the highest prices since tolling began Dec. 4.
The Orange County Register » A decade of planning for an ambitious widening of the I-405 freeway will soon give way to construction – kicking off five years of roadwork that transportation officials say will ease gridlock, ultimately, on one of the busiest routes in the nation. With its $1.9 billion price tag, the undertaking marks the […]