From hamptonroads.com: NC gets green light on new bridge to Outer Banks
From infrastructurist.com: 60 Minutes examines state government budgets

OAKLAND, CALIF. — The Metropolitan Transportation Commission allocated $22 million of bridge toll money to the Solano Transportation Authority to help finance environmental documentation and preliminary engineering for key improvements to the Interstate 80 corridor in Solano County, Calif.

GENEVA, ILL. — The opening of the Stearns Road Bridge corridor over the Fox River in Illinois will mean greater access and reduced travel times for those in Kane County and the communities of St. Charles and South Elgin.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Construction on a new Black River Bridge in Port Huron, Mich., can now begin thanks to a signed agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Michigan Department of Transportation for a $30 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Continuing budget challenges for state and local governments, uncertainty surrounding a new long-term federal surface transportation bill, and winding down of infrastructure investment under the stimulus law will drive a 4.4 percent contraction in the U.S. highway and bridge construction market in 2011.