D.C. Metro’s $2.8-billion Silver Line extension, already beset with months of construction delays, is now grappling with more than 400 defective concrete rail ties.
As Washington State Dept. of Transportation officials look toward a fall 2018 opening of the 1.7-mile-long bored tunnel under downtown Seattle that will replace the aging 1953-opened Alaskan Way Viaduct, the final contract in the $3.3-billion project to tear down the viaduct was awarded to Kiewit Infrastructure West.
Four design-build teams have been short-listed to build the new Glendora to Montclair extension of the Gold Line light rail project in Southern California.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on October 17 celebrated the completion of the new Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway.