Squeezed between two states with different geologies and between above-and-below clearance limits due to marine and air traffic, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s Goethals Bridge, which spans Staten Island’s Arthur Kill strait, represents the agency’s first use of a public-private partnership on a bridge project.
The Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation and a contracting team are in discussions regarding fabrication issues that caused a two-year delay in the completion of a key crossing
between Quincy and Weymouth.
After the bridge over Lake Quinsigamond was deemed structurally deficient, the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation sought to build an aesthetically pleasing alternative to the typical girder structures it usually builds.
Last year’s passage of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act may have provided the nation’s transportation agencies with more funding certainty, but the project planning and implementation landscape is substantially different than the one covered by the previous, multiyear bill.
Despite a fire on Pittsburgh’s Liberty Bridge last month, contractor Joseph B. Fay Co. missed by only four days a milestone to open the bridge’s fourth lane to traffic.
On Oct. 17, the Southern Environmental Law Center issued a statement on behalf of opponents to the proposed Mid-Currituck Bridge, claiming that NCDOT is delaying building the seven-mile Currituck Sound crossing due to rising costs and lower traffic forecasts.
As the Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa., looked ahead to hosting the 2016 U.S. Open, congestion on the century-old Hulton Bridge near Pittsburgh was so bad that the daily traffic count reached nearly 26,000 vehicles.