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Providing a 75-year design life for the structurally deficient critical link between the city of Chelsea, Mass., its northern suburbs and Boston, the rehabilitation of the Chelsea Viaduct involved night work with heavy equipment and posed many risks.

The 2023 Oscar awards featured a Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor who reinvented themselves and came back for a second act. The tunnel-boring machine Angeli is the LA performer that did much the same, but entirely underground.

A mild 2023 winter has helped work advance on a $49-million effort to repair a subway bridge and communications network that link the Rockaways section of Queens to the rest of New York City—a fitting contrast to the brutal Superstorm Sandy surges more than a decade ago that heavily damaged the Jamaica Bay crossing and transportation infrastructure across the entire region.

A panel chose expanded bus service as the best mass transit option for passengers traveling to and from the NYC airport.

Construction of a 37-mile section from London north will be pushed back two years amid inflationary pressure and increased project costs.

Firms'' contract, reportedly worth $1.4 billion, was awarded for North Macedonia work after a 2021 law effectively eliminated competition for the work.

Consortium exercised its contract withdrawal option as state now must rebid—or rethink—Beltway toll lanes addition that new governor has publicly opposed.

Bouygues-led consortium will build Abidjan's first rail line set to have a capacity of 500,000 passengers per day.

President Joe Biden's $6.8-trillion budget highlights include highways, transit grants.

Corpus Christi span is set to open to traffic in the first half of 2025, with last design issue to be resolved in next few weeks, officials say.