After switching from conventional to explosive demolition, the contracting consortium building the new 3-mile-long Mario M. Cuomo Bridge over the Hudson River in New York finally brought down the east section of the main span of the old Tappan Zee Bridge.
An eleventh hour intervention by N.Y. Gov. Cuomo may allow rail service for big storm repair, but the abrupt change in project scope is facing some team pushback.
Skeptics say controversial L Train tunnel rehab shift, developed by NY academics and pushed by Gov. Cuomo, has safety, fix longevity issues; Amtrak may also consider it.
When Ginger Evans became commissioner of the Chicago Dept. of Aviation in 2015, airlines that serve O’Hare International Airport were not talking to the agency because of a failed earlier expansion plan that had to be mediated by then-U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
A nearly $1.2-billion grant from the Federal Transit Administration to the
Seattle-area Sound Transit agency marks the largest transit grant since Donald Trump became president.
The partial shutdown of the federal government is starting to affect some federal construction programs—such as those at the Federal Transit Administration—but other major infrastructure accounts have full 2019 funding and aren't harmed.
Freight and commuter railroads across the U.S. achieved enough milestones by a Dec. 31, 2018, federal deadline for installing automatic train control systems to avoid potential federal penalties.
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