Transportation design firms are seeing the best market conditions in years, thanks to a variety of funding initiatives that are allowing states and
localities to extend project programming horizons into the 2020s.
Originally scheduled for completion late this year, the new 4,300-ft-long Midtown Tunnel between Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., is now on track for completion by the end of the summer.
Hoping not only to improve transportation options and lower infant mortality rates in disadvantaged communities but also to serve as a case study for other cities, Columbus, Ohio, has won a $40-million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge.
Now that 17 years of construction to build the world’s longest tunnel is ramping down, a massive project to expand Alpine infrastructure soon will launch.
The new chief safety officer for Washington, D.C.’s beleaguered Metrorail system has promised an aggressive revamp of the agency’s safety culture, correcting deficiencies that have resulted in deaths and injuries to passengers and workers and significantly compromised the 40-year-old network’s infrastructure.
What would “Ike” do? June 29 marks the 60th anniversary of the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law that authorized the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System and created the Highway Trust Fund to pay for it.