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With Bertha Landed, the Next Steps in Building the Seattle Tunnel

What's next in the effort to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct

Tim Newcomb

April 11, 2017

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Last week marked Bertha’s final push as a tunnel-boring machine.

Front-Runner CH2M Exits UK High Speed Rail Bid

Legal challenges loomed, according to a report

Peter Reina

April 5, 2017

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Firm cites "speculation" over possible conflict in former exec named as owner CEO and delays to project.

Trump and North America’s Building Trades Unions annual legislative conference

Trump Talks Up Infrastructure With Unions

Bruce Buckley

Tom Ichniowski

April 5, 2017

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President Trump continues to court construction unions, telling the North America’s Building Trades Unions annual legislative conference that he wants to rebuild infrastructure, streamline project permitting and reduce undocumented labor.

Intentionally Set Atlanta Interstate Fire Closes Artery Until June

April 5, 2017

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Crews from C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., Marietta, Ga., are removing debris from an Interstate 85 bridge in Atlanta that collapsed during a March 30 rush-hour fire.

Public Transit

DC Metro Chief Defends Track Repair Blitz

Jim Parsons

April 5, 2017

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The head of Washington, D.C.’s beleaguered Metrorail system recently told Congress his agency “had to move and move quickly” in launching an accelerated infrastructure maintenance program in 2016, despite lacking a budget or management plan to guide what could be a $118-million effort to restore the 118-mile system.

TBM Bertha Completes 1.7-Mile Tunnel Bore in Seattle

Tim Newcomb

April 4, 2017

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Cross the finish line over two years late, the tunnel-boring machine Bertha completed it's 1.7-mile journey on April 4.

Canada's New Budget Keeps Big Infrastructure Spend

But firms lament lack of projects moving to design

Scott Van Voorhis

March 29, 2017

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But firms lament lack of projects moving to design.

Former DOT Sec. LaHood To Lead DC Metro Review

Jim Parsons

March 29, 2017

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Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will lead an independent review of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in an attempt to find solutions to numerous operations, governance and financial issues that increasingly have compromised service on the 118-mile Metrorail system.

Caltrans Crews Successfully Demolish Storm-Damaged Bridge

JT Long

March 28, 2017

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Adjustments to increase the velocity of a 6,000-lb wrecking ball had its desired effect more than a week after Caltrans engineers determined that the key Highway 1 connection on California's coast had been irreparably damaged during a series of storms.

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