Articles Tagged with ''Transportation Infrastructure''

Tax-writing panel's hearing covers familiar territory on revenue-raisers.

With construction of the $1 billion North Terminal entering its final stages, officials with the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport are considering the future of the old airport building, which will become vacant when the new terminal opens on May 15.

Highway and bridge projects dominated the list of winners, snaring more than $1 billion of total funding.

Louisiana highway projects will get an extra $80 million boost from redistributed federal highway funds that other states did not spend. State officials say this is the largest amount of redistributed federal funds the state has ever received, although this could be the last year for the additional money because of a lack of matching state funds.

Terminal replacement project adds the building of an entirely new concourse to the original plan.

For the second consecutive summer, the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation has completed substantial work on an accelerated bridge project early.

Intensive construction to replace the westbound portion of the Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Bridge is scheduled from July 26 through Aug. 11.