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11/20/08 Yearly Highway Revenue Dropped 9%, Adding to Road Finance Worries

As Americans drove less, federal gas taxes and other revenue flowing into the Highway Trust Fund fell by $3 billion in fiscal year 2008, compared with the sum collected the year before, the Dept. of Transportation reported.
11/19/08 Sliding Economy Hammers State Transportation Projects

On the road to transportation funding, state departments of transportation are gripping the wheel and holding on for a bumpy ride.
11/19/08 NTSB Cites Gussets and Loads in Collapse

NTSB determines design flaw made plates unable to handle increased loads on Minnesota bridge.
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11/19/08 Don't Leave It at LEED, Say Aviation Project Leaders
11/19/08 Ohio Ponders Whether To Fix or Replace Cleveland Bridge
11/19/08 Ups and Downs in the Airline Industry Are Taking a Toll on New Projects
11/17/08 Airport Experts Say LEED Isn’t Enough for Airports
11/15/08 NTSB Calls For Design Quality Upgrade In Citing Bridge Collapse Causes
11/13/08 NTSB Blames Minn. Bridge Collapse On Gusset Plate Design Error
11/06/08 Brazilian Firm Odebrecht Under Fire in Venezuela
11/04/08 Florida Awards Groundbreaking Highway Contract
10/29/08 Renovation of Houston’s Freeway Completed Five Months Early
10/24/08 DOT Gives States $679 Million To Repair Storm-Damaged Roads
10/22/08 Virginia Transportation Projects Face Painful Budget Cuts
10/15/08 Public Transit Budgets Squeezed As Demand for Services Grows
10/10/08 Panama Canal Snags $400M IDB Financing for Expansion
10/06/08 Deal to Privatize Midway May Pay for Chicago Projects
10/03/08 Bush Expected to Sign Amtrak Funding and Rail Safety Bill
10/02/08 Panama Canal Authority Lets RFP For Third Dry Excavation Contract
10/01/08 Privatization Sparks Debate
10/01/08 London's $30-Billion Cross Rail Project Mixes Delivery Systems
09/29/08 O'Hare Airport Expansion Project Arrives 56 Days Ahead of Schedule
09/24/08 House and Senate Pass Vital Six-Month FAA Extension
09/24/08 Piece By Piece, Barrel Arches Fit Together in New Jersey
09/19/08 FHWA Returns to Daily Highway-Fund Reimbursement
09/17/08 English-French Rail Link Closed After Fire on Train
09/17/08 New I-35 Span Opens Just 13 Months After Fatal Collapse
09/17/08 Limited Funding Sources Hamper New Bridge, Highway Projects
09/10/08 Tragic Collapse Site Now Houses a Monumental Milestone
09/10/08 In Switch, DOT Backs Trust-Fund Rescue
09/10/08 Rare Single-Rib, Inclined-Arch Structure Rises In Ohio
09/10/08 CERN Collider Switched On
09/05/08 Citing Dire Trust Fund Picture, DOT Calls for $8-Billion Infusion
09/05/08 Louisiana, Mississippi Get Emergency Federal Highway Aid
08/13/08 Sandhogs Reach Milestone On $7-Billion New York Job
08/07/08 ASCE Delegation Honors Machu Picchu For Engineering Excellence of Incas
08/06/08 Voluntary Standards Proposed by ANSI for Highway Safety
08/06/08 Arizona Workers Are Old Pros At Sweating In The Southwest
08/06/08 U.S. Contractor Off Nigerian Terminal
08/06/08 $5-billion Scheme To Deliver Texas Wind Energy Approved
08/01/08 MTA Names New Construction Head As AECOM Buys His Former Firm
08/01/08 FHWA Nominee Backed at Confirmation Hearing
07/30/08 Canal in Dubai Will Be Region's Largest Civil Works Job
07/30/08 Highway Trust Fund 'Fix' Stalls Out in the Senate
07/30/08 Toronto Subway Project Gets Bump From New Money Train
07/30/08 Jerusalem's Signature Span Is New Landmark in Old City
07/30/08 'Thirsty’ Materials Transform Alleys from Grimy to Green
07/28/08 In Surprise, New Trust Fund Forecast Shows Smaller Deficit
07/25/08 House Clears Bridge Inspection And Reconstruction Funding Bill
07/30/08 Public-Private Project Begins To Add Beltway's Toll Lanes
07/23/08 House Approves $8-Billion Highway Trust Fund 'Fix'
07/23/08 California Found All Steel Deck Truss Structures Safe
07/23/08 No Decision Yet By Indiana On Spending New Federal Funds
07/23/08 Structures in Southwest Among the Safest in U.S.
07/23/08 No Problems Found in Florida, Georgia or South Carolina
07/23/08 No Work Needed on Texas' Fracture-Critical Structures
07/23/08 Minnesota Disaster Alters Design Of New River Span in Oregon
07/23/08 States Show Mixed Progress In Year After Minnesota Failure
07/16/08 Montreal Bypass Moves Ahead
07/16/08 Former NY DOT Chief Named to Lead FHWA
07/16/08 Alaska Gas Line May Grow a Spur
07/09/08 Louisiana Examines, Fixes Once-Submerged Roads
07/09/08 As Dirt Flies and Contracts Are Let, Panama Canal Expansion is Moving
07/09/08 World's Second-Longest Ocean Crossing Opens
07/02/08 Canada Nears $1.5-Billion Award of Public-Private Montreal Job
07/02/08 Manhattan Train Station Is Wired and Widened
07/02/08 New Arches Hover Over Old Within a Jersey Structure
07/02/08 Ninety-Year-Old Bascule Replaced in Four Days
07/01/08 Three-Month FAA Stopgap Signed Into Law
06/26/08 Senate Passes Three-Month Extension of Airport Funds
06/26/08 Midwest Floods Drown Tracks And Whisk Away Bridges
06/25/08 Highway Trust Fund 'Fix' Stalls in House and Senate
06/25/08 Shuttle-Blasted Trench Wall Requires Fix Before October
06/19/08 Downward Travel Trend Raises Highway Trust Fund Worries
06/18/08 Chicago Transit Authority Hits Brakes on Super-Station Project
06/18/08 Ohio Awards Contracts To Repair Bridge Pier Rammed by a Truck
06/18/08 Building Information Models Are Now Crossing Over
06/11/08 Contractors Stake Out Needs To Owners and Engineers
05/28/08 Ohio Truss-Span Repair Expedited
05/28/08 Report: I-35W Maintenance Recommendations Ignored
05/23/08 Ten Minutes with Michael Della Rocca, President of N. America Halcrow Inc.
05/22/08 Report: State DOT Ignored I-35W Bridge Recommendations
05/21/08 Pennsylvania Is Closer To Privatizing Its Turnpike
05/21/08 Trucks Slams Overpass And Knocks Out Columns
05/21/08 New Hudson River Crossing Moving
05/21/08 Chicago Airports Throttle Up For Major Cash Infusions
05/19/08 Nevada Approves First Public-Private Road Project
05/14/08 New Group Plans To Train Iraqis In Bridge-Inspection Techniques
05/14/08 Canada Backs Link To Detroit
05/14/08 Spain's Flowing Tube Crossing Poses Challenges
05/09/08 Financing Set for Planned $1.6-Billion Ontario Road
05/07/08 World's Longest Bridge Starts Up
05/07/08 Minnesota Reaches Settlement as New Bridge Is 65% Complete
05/07/08 Florida Pushes Ahead With Plan for New System
05/07/08 Dulles Project: Not Dead Yet
05/07/08 Pile-Driving Gantry System Debuts in North Carolina
05/07/08 Contractors Must Fix Cracks On Tracks in Phoenix
05/05/08 Bridge Modeling Pioneer Abdel-Ghaffar Dies at 61
05/02/08 Phoenix Light-Rail Repairs: Who Gets Blame, Bill?
05/01/08 Congress Clears SAFETEA-LU 'Corrections' Bill
05/01/08 Dulles Metrorail Extension Back on Track
04/30/08 Feds Fund $25-million Study Of Nation's 'Workhorse' Bridges
04/30/08 Nevada Breaks Ground On First Design-Build Road
04/30/08 Road-and-Rail Bridge Over Mississippi Gets a Physical
04/29/08 Rutgers/PB-Led Research Team Will Study Hundreds Of Bridges
04/24/08 Missouri and Illinois Select Designer for Mississippi Crossing
04/24/08 Pittsburgh TBM Jams Again With New Two-Week Delay
04/23/08 Stuck TBM Shuts Down Job
04/18/08 Senate OKs Highway Bill 'Technical Corrections'
04/17/08 Former CA/T Director Tapped To Head Rhode Island DOT
04/16/08 Forensic Review Calls for More Repairs to Central Artery/Tunnel
04/16/08 Record-Setting Dubai Bridge Moving into Design Phase
04/10/08 Dubai Prepares to Build Record-Breaking Arch Structure
04/09/08 Belgium Firm Awarded Major Contract For Panama Canal
04/04/08 Belgian Firms Snags $177M Panama Canal Dredge Contract
04/03/08 Longest Stress Ribbon Bridge Takes Shape In San Diego
04/02/08 I-35W Crossing May Be Done Months Early on Fast Track
04/02/08 Old, New and JetBlue Join At New York Airport
03/26/08 Bent Gusset Plates Close Another Minnesota Bridge
03/21/08 Minnesota DOT Shuts Bridge, Citing Bent Gusset Plates
03/21/08 Officials Reopen Interstate 95 After Fixing Cracked Column
03/21/08 NTSB Decides Not to Hold Hearing on Bridge Collapse
03/19/08 Bridge Spanning the Red Sea Has Initial $20-Billion Estimate
03/19/08 Inspector Discovers Crack in Support Column, Closing I-95
03/19/08 I-35W Bridge Gussets, Loads Still Undergoing Scrutiny
03/12/08 Transportation Report Cites Need for New Methods
03/12/08 Aeronautically Inspired Truss To Take Flight In Seattle
03/10/08 FAA Sees Slower Growth In Aviation During 08
03/05/08 With Eye on Costs, New York Agency Hopes Plan Will Fly
03/05/08 Stopgap Clears Way For Airport Grants
03/03/08 Plan for Mississippi River Span Moves Forward
02/29/08 4-Month FAA Bill Signed, With Construction Grants
02/28/08 Ex-FHWA Chief Capka Joins Lobbying Firm
02/27/08 Vietnam Moving Toward The Nation's First Two Metros
02/27/08 Infrastructure Repair, Access To Clean Water Named Priorities
02/27/08 Speedy Carolina Crews Build Seven Spans in Seven Weeks
02/27/08 Florida Codes Now Permit Use of Welding Technique
02/27/08 Traffic Signals Eyed, and More
02/20/08 Chicago Midway Sale Takes Off
02/20/08 Ground Work Starts To Rise For I-35W Bridge Replacement
02/20/08 New Cableway System Set For Hoover Dam Bypass
02/20/08 Station Plan Could Serve As Beacon For New York Region
02/13/08 First Composite Rail Bridge Undergoes Successful Testing
02/08/08 Sinkhole Shuts I-25 in Denver; 66-in. Water Main Ruptures
02/06/08 100-Ton Prefab Bridge Lifted Into Place
02/06/08 DOT Secretary Mary Peters Pushes Big Shift for Roads,Transit
02/05/08 Footspan Placed in One Pick At Phoenix Convention Center
02/01/08 Glasgow Officials Close Bridge After Cable Connector Snaps
01/30/08 Federal Agency Says Dulles Metrorail Project Is Not 'Prudent'
01/30/08 KBR Backs Out of $6.3-billion Job; Virginia Looks for New Bids
01/30/08 Scots Plan New $8.4-Billion Bridge To Span Firth of Forth
01/29/08 Va. Officials Struggle To Save $5-Billion Dulles Rail Project
01/24/08 Capka to Leave as FHWA Chief
01/23/08 Argentina Awards $1.3-Billion Contract for High-Speed Rail
01/23/08 Louisiana's Luling Bridge Stay Cables To Be Replaced
01/23/08 Conference Eyes Transport Crisis
01/23/08 Transportation Officials Outline Needs For Linking Modes and Nodes
01/23/08 Deal for D.C. New HOT Lanes Is Turning Out To Be Hot Stuff
01/16/08 Public-Private Deal Brings Peace to Bliss
01/16/08 NTSB Finds Fractured Gussets in I-35 Span
01/15/08 Safety Board Finds I-35W Bridge Plates Too Thin
01/14/08 Florida DOT Reopens I-4 After Emergency Repair Work
01/09/08 Historic Cable-Stayed Link Taking Shape in Louisiana
01/03/08 Interstate 81 Corridor Widening Plans Face Lawsuit
01/03/08 Scotland Seeks New Span
01/03/08 Authority Starts Bid Process For Lock Work in Panama
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