Israel's Transport Ministry is studying a plan to build a new port in the Red Sea city of Eilat. The so-called Southern Gateway project would involve closing the existing port at the southern end of the city and digging a canal along its northeastern edge adjacent to the border with Jordan. The cost of the project is estimated at over $3 billion.
Israel's Highway 1, a key east-west artery linking Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is getting a long-overdue $800-million upgrade. The project involves expanding to six lanes a winding 16-kilometer, four-lane segment that runs through the Judean Hills as well as construction of new supporting infrastructure.
When faced with controversies involving the country's prestigious high-speed-rail program, Chinese officials are not shy about departing from the Communist Party line that is carefully scripted in Beijing. Instead of blandly agreeing that setbacks are minor and all is well, they instead are willing to find fault and even differ with each other publicly.
Repairs to a collapsed span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake should be completed by May 27—four months earlier than originally anticipated. Hall Contracting of Kentucky Inc., Louisville, has won a $7-million emergency contract. It faces a $50,000-per-day penalty if it misses the May 27 deadline.
An iconic bridge playing the starring role in a $735-million, 11.5-mile light rail extension in Los Angeles County is rapidly taking shape. The $18-million project will feature giant bridge columns designed to look like Native American hand-woven baskets, to be placed along the 210 Freeway in Arcadia about 10 miles east of Los Angeles. The $18-million bridge project, being constructed by a Skanska USA-led design-build contract, is more than 60% complete, with two 28-ft-tall concrete abutments flanking the freeway. Motorists are driving under a 330-ft-long falsework tunnel structure, which give workers access to erect the permanent 584-ft-long bridge. The precast “baskets,”
Photo courtesy of Dulles Transit Partners balancing act Tunnels for Dulles metro extension were built with the New Austrian Tunneling Method in shallow conditions. Related Links: Virginia Governor Vetoes Tunnel Option for D.C. Metrorail Extension Dulles Project: Not Dead Yet Responding to lawmakers' concerns, the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority rescinded this month a mandatory project labor agreement for work on the extension of Virginia's Metrorail system to Dulles airport.Instead, the future design-build team for the 11.4-mile second phase—now estimated at $2.7 billion, rather than $3.8 billion—can voluntarily sign a project pact that would apply only to the
It has traveled a long, bumpy path, but a controversial proposal to build a major bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin has moved a giant step closer to a groundbreaking. Congress has cleared a bill exempting the estimated $626.4-million St. Croix River bridge from the requirements of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The 1968 statute bars federally funded projects that would harm such rivers' scenic qualities.
Eugene A. "Gene" Conti Jr., secretary of the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation since 2009, is fighting the battle for transportation funding on multiple fronts, including a role in a Federal Highway Administration pilot program that could enable tolls on the state's 182-mile stretch of Interstate 95 as a way to pay for upgrades.
The Sixth Street Viaduct Bridge in Los Angeles—the site of numerous Hollywood movie scenes—has reached the end of its career. City engineers are reviewing a request-for-proposals document for a final cable-stayed design to replace the structure, which consists of two prestressed-concrete viaducts and a double steel-arch center span.
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