Due to its easement agreement with a mining company, the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation had to relocate 3.2 miles of U.S. Highway 53 in the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota to allow mining operations to continue.
Lake Shore Drive, a part of U.S. Highway 41 that runs parallel with and along the shoreline of Lake Michigan in Chicago, was closed to northbound traffic from the morning of February 11 to the afternoon of February 12 due to cracks in structural steel support girders on the elevated roadway that leads to the Outer Drive Bridge which crosses the Chicago River at the mouth of Lake Michigan.
A note from the engineer of record on an approved shop drawing for San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center appears to have initiated an instruction to the steel fabricator to cut two 2-in. x 4-in. holes in the bottom flanges of the hub's built-up plate girders.