Articles Tagged with ''Highway/Bridge''

The 60-year-old bridge spanning the Minnesota River has been replaced with a twin-structure crossing that provides long-needed added traffic capacity while also eliminating flooding issues at the approaches.

Construction is underway on a $240-million Missouri River crossing for I-70 near Rocheport, Mo.

Chicago’s Lakefront Trail Pedestrian Bridge incorporates architectural steel railings and panels, custom steel deck nosing and a LED lighting system to improve visibility.

On Nov. 11, 2020, a trucking accident on the Brent Spence Bridge—a key thoroughfare between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati—caused a fire that damaged the double-decker cantilevered truss bridge’s upper deck floor system steel, drainage, deck, barriers, electrical components and the lower deck’s overlay.

In February 2020, heavy rains caused a landslide on U.S. 231 between Arab and Huntsville, Ala., making the highway impassible and dangerous.

Originally constructed in 1927, the open spandrel concrete arch bridge is well known to travelers on both land and water.

This project replaced a partial cloverleaf interchange originally built in 1965 that connects Interstate 19 and Ajo Way (State Route 86) in Tucson.

An addition of a new auxiliary lane, a widened 12-ft shoulder and new conduit and utilities along Interstate 80 have improved safety and connectivity for Tooele Valley residents and commuters. 

Constructed over three years, the $110-million crossing helps reconnect long-separated communities.

The central aims of this complex $96.6-million project were to replace the U.S. Route 422 Schuylkill River bridge with a modern, wider prestressed concrete beam bridge as well as to widen and reconstruct one mile of U.S. 422 between the state Route 23 and Route 363 interchanges.