A consortium of three Canadian pension funds on Nov. 12 agreed to acquire for $2.8 billion the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway toll road that extends from central Chicago to the Indiana state line.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, proved to be a good day at the polls for infrastructure funding, with voters in eight states endorsing a variety of ballot measures aimed at generating new revenue for transportation and related projects.
Suspecting that the California High- Speed Rail Authority intentionally misled the state Legislature on costs, state Assembly Republicans are seeking to subpoena state documents on the estimated $68-billion high-speed-rail (HSR) project and set up a special committee to receive sworn testimony from CHSRA officials.
Officials in Williston, N.D., are pressing ahead with plans for a new $254-million airport to replace Sloulin International Airport, which experienced a tenfold increase in traffic between 2008 and 2014, partially due to the oil-shale boom in the region.
A newly constructed bridge deck built as part of the 91 Freeway Project in Corona, Calif., will be demolished and rebuilt amid concerns about possible damage associated with an Oct. 9 incident that injured nine workers.
The Ohio Dept. of Transportation completed the state’s first slide-in bridge project on Oct. 17-18, although on a somewhat different schedule following the discovery this summer of excess camber in two precast-concrete beams.
Erection of precast-concrete girders for the aerial guideway of the $2.8-billion Silver Line rail project in northern Virginia has resumed, even as an investigation continues into the cause of longitudinal cracks found in several 96-in.-high units this past summer.
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