From post-gazette.com: LIUNA funds billboards marking structurally deficient bridges From pittsburghlive.com: Pennsylvania bridge uses epoxy overlay to slow deterioration
Forty-two capital construction projects and 33 planning projects in 40 states will share nearly $600 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) II program for major infrastructure projects ranging from highways and bridges to transit, rail, and ports, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced.
From jsonline.com: Transportation panel recommends approval of $1.36B in state road projects From dglobe.com: Minnesota bridge section collapses as contractor works on it
From parade.com: Hoover Dam sports new concrete-arch bridge From chicagotribune.com: High-tech sensors help spot potentially fatal problems with bridges
With more than a thousand of the workers who helped build it looking on, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood dedicated the “Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge” at the Hoover Dam. When it opens to traffic the week of Oct. 18, it will become the western hemisphere’s longest single-span concrete arch bridge and one of the tallest in the world.
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