‘A fiasco from the beginning’ — Caltrans’ costs soar on $1.1 billion San Francisco tunnels The Sacramento Bee » Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated when the California Transportation Commission voted, despite a host of warnings, to pay a contractor more than $1 billion to build two tunnels and a stretch of road outside San Francisco nine years ago. Now the project, known as the Presidio Parkway, is more than two years late and $208 million over budget. When the commission approved another $34 million in delay-related spending last month, two commissioners who originally opposed the project lamented their predictions had come true. “This has been a fiasco from the beginning,” Commissioner Bob Alvarado said at the March 14 meeting. Michelle2019-04-17T13:43:26-08:00April 10th, 2019|California, Highways, Presidio Parkway, Public-Private Partnerships|
With 100 People Per Day Dying in Crashes, Lawmakers Weigh Road Safety Options Route Fifty » Safety advocates and others are urging Congress to take steps to curb motor vehicle crashes, which kill thousands of Americans each year, as discussions get underway about reauthorizing a major piece of federal highway legislation. Michelle2019-04-25T09:47:26-08:00April 9th, 2019|Roads, U.S. News|
Thousands of Bridges In ‘Urgent Need of Repairs’ Route Fifty » More than 47,000 of America’s bridges are in urgent need of repairs, slightly fewer than last year thanks largely to the federal government’s new definition of the term “structurally deficient,” according to a report by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association. The study uses the latest data available from federal government’s National Bridge Inventory Database. Michelle2019-04-18T08:45:40-08:00April 8th, 2019|Bridges, Fuel Tax, Reports|
Getting There: Congestion pricing isn’t coming to Spokane, but these roads aren’t free and never were The Spokesman-Review » Roads have been free so long, people have forgotten how expensive they really are. Michelle2019-04-18T10:20:51-08:00April 8th, 2019|Fuel Tax, Highways, New York, Road Usage Charge, Washington|
VIDEO: Railing falls from bridge in Tennessee, 1 car heavily damaged KATU » The Tennessee Department of Transportation and local police reported a partial collapse of a barrier on a bridge over a roadway. Michelle2019-04-18T10:34:35-08:00April 1st, 2019|Bridges, Tennessee|
The Boring Company: What 8 Cities Really Think of Elon Musk’s Tunnel Vision Inverse » Elon Musk is getting dug into the nitty-gritty of city politics. The Boring Company, a venture the entrepreneur started two years ago, has been aiming to convince local legislators that the answers to their traffic woes is building lots of tunnels. City officials from Sydney to New York have mixed reactions, now that an initial 1.14-mile test tunnel (cost: $10 million) has been opened for assessment. Michelle2019-04-18T10:31:12-08:00March 26th, 2019|Australia, California, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Roads, Virginia|