Faced with mounting opposition over the immediate use of tolls to begin financing the $2.1-billion Midtown Tunnel P3 project, the Virginia Dept. of Transportation has negotiated an amendment to its comprehensive agreement with Elizabeth River Crossings LLC, or ERC, potentially delaying tolls for two years until construction of the parallel tube is substantially complete.The delay is contingent upon Virginia's ability to find an alternative funding source for the approximately $125 million in revenue expected to be generated if the existing Midtown and Downtown tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth begin collecting tolls as scheduled this summer. Construction of the four-year project
Photo Courtesy Florida Dept. of Transportation A $1.4-million project will knit 70 miles of managed lanes, toll facilities and turnpikes in Florida into a regional network to improve traffic flow. The Florida Dept. of Transportation is preparing to knit 70 miles of managed lanes, toll facilities and turnpikes in multiple jurisdictions into a regional network to improve traffic flow. In February, HNTB Corp., Kansas City, began a $1.4-million, 15-month project to develop a "regional concept of transportation operations," or RCTO, for South Florida.In use for a decade, managed lanes open to different types of traffic at varying toll rates, depending
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) hopes to pass a two-year highway-funding bill which includes provisions to increase domestic oil and gas drilling. Just two days before a threatened March 31 shutdown of highway programs, Congress approved yet another stopgap that will keep surface-transportation funds moving, but only through June 30. While construction and state transportation officials were relieved that the bill, which President Obama signed on March 30, averted a funding cutoff, they were unhappy that Congress still couldn't approve a long-term highway-transit measure.The 90-day stopgap is the ninth since Sept. 30, 2009, when the
The government of Kenya and the African Development Bank have signed agreements totaling $366 million in financial aid for two projects: a geothermal steam field and a road upgrade, which will open landlocked Ethiopia to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
When the U.S. Coast Guard questioned a request for a Section 9 bridge permit for the $3.5-billion Columbia River Crossing project—a proposed 10-lane Interstate 5 bridge connecting Portland, Ore., to Vancouver, Wash.—CRC officials were surprised that years of planning needed to be revisited.
A major interchange is undergoing a role reversal in Arizona's second- largest metropolitan area. Designed to solve traffic headaches and a dire safety problem, the Interstate 10 interchange project in Tucson is "flipping" the grade of Prince Road so that it will pass over, instead of under, I-10.
State transportation departments wishing to replace bridges faster using accelerated bridge construction, or ABC, techniques will soon have a standardized design tool kit as a reference.
Photo: John Sturrock A 1,350-tonne-capacity Liebherr LR11350 crawler crane raises modules for the new cableway. Photo: John Sturrock The cable car line will serve venues for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Related Links: As London Nears 2012 Olympics, Brazil Starts Race to 2016 A giant crawler crane recently placed the final pylon for the U.K.’s first urban cable car, which will run over the River Thames in east London. As the cable car will be serving some venues for the London 2012 Olympic Games, engineers are in a hurry to complete the $71-million project before the opening ceremony in July.Being
By all accounts, Dr. David Carrier III is an eminent geotechnical expert on soil science. A paper he co-wrote won a medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and he has written about building conditions on the moon.
India plans to boost infrastructure spending to $1.2 trillion as part of the country's 12th Five-Year Plan for the years 2012-2017, with the amount set to come from private investment rising to 50% from, during the last plan, 30%. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee noted the figures on March 16, when he announced the country's 2012-2013 budget.
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