Articles Tagged with ''Transit''

Big developments and big setbacks marked transportation construction in 2015, a year in which two journalists traveled across America in a rusty 1949 Hudson to see how infrastructure projects are getting done.

Located on a 16-acre shared-use site, the Harrisonburg Dept. of Public Transportation Administration and Maintenance Facility is a hub of activity.

Long-awaited legislation will hike 2016 highway funds 5% and transit funds 8% but out-years' highway gains average just 2.3%.

Obama signs new stopgap through Dec. 4; conference committee chair Shuster wants final agreement on multi-year bill by Nov. 30.

The long search for a multi-year highway-transit bill has moved closer to the goal with the House’s passage of a six-year, $335-billion-plus proposal.

Due to the size and complexity of its $900-million South Runway expansion project at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, project owner Broward County Aviation Dept. divided the massive redo into two separate, but still complex, contracts.

This ambitious project replaced Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport’s original 5,300-ft runway by expanding and elevating it to an 8,000-ft-long, 150-ft-wide structure that extends over the existing airport perimeter road, Florida East Coast Railway and U.S. Highway 1.