Suspecting that the California High- Speed Rail Authority intentionally misled the state Legislature on costs, state Assembly Republicans are seeking to subpoena state documents on the estimated $68-billion high-speed-rail (HSR) project and set up a special committee to receive sworn testimony from CHSRA officials.
Officials in Williston, N.D., are pressing ahead with plans for a new $254-million airport to replace Sloulin International Airport, which experienced a tenfold increase in traffic between 2008 and 2014, partially due to the oil-shale boom in the region.
A newly constructed bridge deck built as part of the 91 Freeway Project in Corona, Calif., will be demolished and rebuilt amid concerns about possible damage associated with an Oct. 9 incident that injured nine workers.
The Ohio Dept. of Transportation completed the state’s first slide-in bridge project on Oct. 17-18, although on a somewhat different schedule following the discovery this summer of excess camber in two precast-concrete beams.
Erection of precast-concrete girders for the aerial guideway of the $2.8-billion Silver Line rail project in northern Virginia has resumed, even as an investigation continues into the cause of longitudinal cracks found in several 96-in.-high units this past summer.
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
Lane Construction Corp. crews, which completed a $56.5-million widening of Interstate 40 near Mt. Juliet, Tenn., in 2014, are back at the site, repairing the highway and adding drainage after repeated hydroplane-related wrecks.
A month after his surprise win as Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull is reversing his predecessor's policy on transit funding with a $95-million commitment to a 7.3- kilometer light-rail extension in the Gold Coast area of Queensland, which will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
The first of many tunnel breakthroughs on the Saudi Arabian capital's new, six-line, 176-kilometer metro recently took place at the Salah Al-Din.A TBM dubbed San'ah completed 1.2 km of tunnel on Line 5 since setting off in late June.
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