The U.S. Dept. of Transportation on Dec. 21 granted the MBTA a $100-million installment of a $1-billion grant for the 4.7-mile light-rail line from Cambridge to Medford.
Legal challenges have once again played havoc with the construction schedule for Maryland’s Purple Line, raising the possibility that the 16-mile light rail system may miss its planned 2022 start-up date according to state transportation officials.
Owners of a historic cemetery alongside the new tracks has resisted plans to relocate the sole entrance to a side street, even though more than 80 trains will periodically block the current point of entry each day.
Louis Berger named former District of Columbia Dept. of Transportation director Leif Dormsjo as senior vice president for infrastructure asset management.
Fresh off a resounding endorsement of a $1.6 billion road bond referendum, West Virginia transportation officials are now strategizing how those funds, along with other recently approved revenue sources, will be put to work.
The New Hampshire Dept. of Transportation began Rush inspections of 16 red-listed bridges on Sept. 6 after a large piece of concrete fell off the N.H. Route 102 Bridge onto moving traffic on I-93 in Derry, N.H. a week earlier.
More than 900 West Virginia highway and bridge projects are in line to receive funding from a $1.6 billion bond proposal that goes before the state’s voters on October 7. The bonds are part of a $2.8 billion transportation funding initiative proposed earlier this year by Gov. Jim Justice (R).