WSDOT has released a draft request for proposals to four contracting teams for the SR 99 bored tunnel design-build project. This is the teams’ first opportunity to review design and contract information as they prepare their proposals and cost estimate to build the tunnel.
More than half of the funds for transportation in the U.S. economic stimulus plan passed a year ago have now been obligated, and much of it is fixing the country's decaying infrastructure. According to Rep. James Oberstar, 24,000 miles of roads are being improved and 1,100 bridge repairs made.
The bridge, the crumbling hyphen in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, last year topped a construction-industry group’s list of the most decrepit elevated roadways in the city. New York state's Department of Transportation has released plans to replace the aging viaduct in which two new bridges will take the place of the current steel-truss one. Four designs for the new bridge are under consideration.
The bridge, the crumbling hyphen in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, last year topped a construction-industry group’s list of the most decrepit elevated roadways in the city. New York state's Department of Transportation has released plans to replace the aging viaduct in which two new bridges will take the place of the current steel-truss one. Four designs for the new bridge are under consideration.
