When he was Federal Transit Administration chief, Peter M. Rogoff in 2009 OK’d $813 million in federal grants to Seattle-area rail agency Sound Transit to boost construction of a regional light-rail line.
More than half of Oregon’s state highway system bridges—that’s more than half of the 2,700 bridges the state department of transportation owns, not even counting the other 4,000 owned by cities and counties—were built in the 1950s and 19060s.
Maybe the restart of the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine will come as a Christmas present to the folks in Seattle, as the scheduled boring by “Bertha,” the 57.5-ft-dia machine currently sitting idle under downtown
Portland's troubled Morrison Bridge, which spans the Willamette River, will receive its third deck in four years after Multnomah County engineers settled on an open-grid steel deck with a 2.5-in. layer of lightweight concrete to replace a faulty polymer decking system.