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BENT NOTICE: On October 27, 2005 I suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and I am still having difficulty reading for long periods. The good news is that I should have a full recovery and have started back to work part time. Unfortunately I am still not up to working on the BENT, but hope start it back soon. Sincerely, Richard Pickings, Webmaster.
Plan Calls For White Church Bridge To Be Closed 2-3 Years - 8/16/2005
BARRINGTON - Some motorists rolling through Barrington last Thursday were surprised to see the White Church Bridge had been closed to traffic, but according to a Rhode Island Department of Transportation official that scene will likely become routine in the next couple of years....
Bridge Won't Be Cheap - 8/16/2005
BULLHEAD CITY - A new bridge connecting Bullhead City and Laughlin, estimated to be completed in roughly five years, could end up costing about eight times as much as it cost to build the current Bullhead/Laughlin Bridge....
Skybridge A First For City - : - Bellevue Officials Hope Connection Creates Pedestrian-friendly Zone - 8/16/2005
BELLEVUE - While the city sleeps tonight, a 109-foot-long steel skeleton will make its way into the center of downtown. By the time the sun rises Saturday, Bellevue will have its first skybridge....
Llinois Projects Funded In Federal Transportation Bill - 8/16/2005
ILLINOIS - _Harrisburg: $2 million. Preconstruction and construction of IL 13 connector.
_Harrisburg: $2 million. Preconstruction and construction of IL 13 connector....
I-95 Project Progressing Slowly, But Surely - 8/16/2005
BRISTOL - A link between I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- which would relieve traffic in both Bucks and Mercer counties -- is years away....
Homes Razed For Bridge - 8/16/2005
SAUK RAPIDS - The first visible signs of the long-awaited Sauk Rapids bridge project continue this week with the demolition of eight homes and one business....
Ulfa Blows Up Another Pipeline, Bridge In Assam - 8/16/2005
GUWAHATI - Stepping up violence ahead of Independence Day, ULFA blew up a gas pipeline, a steel bridge and a transformer across Assam, police said on Tuesday....
Delayed Bridge Work Begins At Site Of Fatal Girder Collapse - 8/16/2005
DENVER - Contractors on Tuesday night lowered a 52-ton girder assembly on the C-470 bridge over Interstate 70, the site of a fatal bridge accident 15 months ago....
Washington Group's Capital Outlook - 8/16/2005
WASHINGTON - The federal government has begun to tackle more problems in America's power grid and infrastructure, which looks like a boon for engineering and construction firm Washington Group...
We’ll Take Our Pork Sliced Thick - 8/16/2005
NORTH DAKOTA - Within minutes of the president’s signing of the new highway bill, a gaggle of self-anointed critics began squealing “pork!”...
"rite Of Passage" Ending With Rail Bridge's Removal - 8/16/2005
SEATTLE - A big part of Monroe's history has been lifted away from its place over the Skykomish River....
New S.c. Bridge Has Longest Span In North America - 8/16/2005
CHARLESTON, S.C. - It’s the $632 million Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge that carries traffic on U.S. Highway 17 over the Cooper River between Charleston and Mount Pleasant. With the dedication and opening on July 16, it becomes the longest cable-stay bridge in North America with a main span of 1,546 feet....
Japan Highway Exec Indicted Over Bids - 8/16/2005
JAPAN - Prosecutors filed charges Monday against Michio Uchida, vice president of the Japan Highway Public Corp., for his involvement in rigging bids for bridge projects, resulting in inflated costs....
Millions In Federal Funds On The Way For Road Widening - 8/16/2005
SANLUIS OBISPO - Congress approves money for more lanes on Highway 46 East and the Santa Maria River Bridge, plus funding for a bike trail and Pismo Promenade...
Polymer Bandages May Give New Life To Old Bridges - 8/16/2005
WISCONSIN - Long polymer "bandages," designed so that troops could quickly repair or reinforce bridges to bear the weight of 113-ton military tank transport vehicles, now could be used to quickly and inexpensively strengthen aging rural bridges and concrete culverts around the country....
India-sri Lanka Channel Project Looking Up - 8/16/2005
INDIA-SRI LANKA - After more than a century on the drawing board, the ambitious Sethusamudram Shipping Canal project, billed as India's Suez, looks set to become reality....
Pork, Like Beauty, Is In The Eye Of The Beholder - 8/16/2005
OAK PARK - That's because Congress earmarked $4.8 million in federal transportation funds to keep alive the "Cap the Ike" project, a scheme that's being advanced by some of my fellow Oak Parkers to build a massive bridge over the Eisenhower Expressway where it cuts through the suburb....
Authorities Investigate Fall From Highway 70 Bypass Bridge - 7/26/2005
SELMA - SELMA, N.C. -- Authorities said that a person fell from the Highway 70 bypass bridge that crosses over Highway 301 Monday morning....
Morse Bros. To Deliver Record-setting Bridge Beams - 7/26/2005
OREGON - The largest concrete beams ever used in a highway bridge in Oregon will leave the Morse Bros. Inc. concrete plant in Harrisburg Wednesday morning, destined for the Chemult bridge project on U.S. 97....
Span Gets Their Attention - 7/26/2005
VIRGINIA - CENTRAL GARAGE -- The Virginia Department of Transportation is working to replace a bridge in King William County, but residents say the detour sign blocking state Route 618 is a daily reminder of how long the process is taking....
Fitch: Comment On Recent Legislation Regarding Bay Area Toll Bridge System - 7/26/2005
NEW YORK - July 25, 2005 It is Fitch's opinion that the enactment of Assembly Bill (AB) 144 by the State of California on July 18, 2005 provides adequate flexibility to ensure little to no adverse consequence to credit quality for Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) and California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (CIEDB) Bay Area toll bridges seismic retrofit program debtholders. The proposed solution, another step in the lengthy process to finish the Bay Area's troubled seismic retrofit program, may serve to finally put the necessary elements in place to see the program through to completion. Additional engineering and financial challenges cannot be ruled out, and may very well still be reasonably expected, but it appears as though the legislature has delegated the necessary authority for the selected entity, BATA, to finish the job without returning to the state for another solution....
Temporarily' Closed Maidstone Bridge Reopens 16 Years Later - 7/26/2005
MAIDSTONE - MAIDSTONE, Vt./STRATFORD HOLLOW, N.H. -- A ceremony Saturday celebrated the reopening of a bridge closed for 16 years - and honored the woman who made it possible....
cost Of Downtown Bridge Could Kill Project - 7/26/2005
ILLINOIS - Transportation officials in Missouri and Illinois are concerned that the $1.6 billion price tag on a new Mississippi River bridge could kill any chance of building it, or that construction would take so long that congestion relief between St. Louis and the Metro East could be at least 15 years away....
Roaring Run Bridge To Stay Closed A Few More Weeks - 7/26/2005
PITTSBURGH - The bridge, which carries McCartney Road over Roaring Run, was to be completed in April but won't be finished until guard rails are installed in early August. All other work has been done....
Thai-lao Bridge Collapse Death Toll Raises To Eight - 7/26/2005
BANGKOK - BANGKOK, July 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Death toll of the collapsed Thai-Lao bridge has risen from one to eight, with six more bodies recovered, one injured dying in hospital and two still missing....
Filipino Engineer Killed In Thai Bridge Collapse - 7/26/2005
THAILAND - The Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday said that a Filipino engineer working in Thailand was among those killed when a bridge collapsed in the Mekong River....
16 Years After Quake, Bay Bridge Project Poised To Begin - 7/26/2005
OAKLAND - OAKLAND, Calif. -- Sixteen years after a major earthquake collapsed a portion of the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, construction of a sturdier replacement span is finally poised to begin after years of bickering about aesthetics and skyrocketing costs that drew comparisons to Boston's Big Dig....
Japan Highway Vice President Held Over Bid-rigging - 7/26/2005
JAPAN - Prosecutors on Monday arrested Michio Uchida, vice president of Japan Highway Public Corp., for allegedly helping to rig bids for bridge projects ordered by the highway body....
Irang Bridge Reconstruction To Be Completed Today - 7/26/2005
IMPHAL - MPHAL, Jul 23: Reconstruction work on the Irang bridge on NH-53, destroyed by supporters of the ANSAM-supported economic blockade on July 20 morning has been taken up on war footing, and officials supervising the work have expressed confidence that it would be completed by tomorrow evening....
Work Halted On Thruway Bridge Where Backup Started - 7/26/2005
ALBANY - Albany, NY - AP) — Work has been halted at the site of a Thruway bridge project where an engineering problem caused a 20-mile backup at the start of last weekend....
Bridge Work Nearing End - 7/26/2005
WILLIAMSTOWN - WILLIAMSTOWN -- Both Route 7 bridges undergoing renovation by the Massachusetts Highway Department should be completed around October, said Ross Dindio, District 1 highway director....
Alleged Toll Bridge Robber, Shooter Due In Court - 7/26/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - A man charged with robbing and shooting a Golden Gate Bridge toll collector in April is scheduled to appear in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday....
New Mississippi Bridge Hits Funding Roadblock - 7/26/2005
BELLEVILLE - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A lack of federal support is stalling plans to build a bridge that would span the Mississippi River, so transportation officials in llinois and Missouri are rethinking design and cost issues....
Replacement Of Bridge To Get A Sept. 1 Hearing - 7/26/2005
INDIANAPOLIS - Although construction funding has not been set, county officials are proceeding with a bridge project in White River Township....
Work Halted On Thruway Bridge Where Backup Started - 7/26/2005
ALBANY - LBANY, N.Y., -- The state ordered a halt to construction of a bridge spanning the Thruway in western New York after a structural problem caused a 20-mile traffic backup last week, officials said Tuesday....
Japan Highway Vice President Held Over Bid-rigging - 7/26/2005
JAPAN - Prosecutors on Monday arrested Michio Uchida, vice president of Japan Highway Public Corp., for allegedly helping to rig bids for bridge projects ordered by the highway body....
Construction Worker Hit By Beam On Sandusky Bay Bridge - 7/26/2005
OHIO - Marcus M. Holtz, 50, was was apparently struck in the forehead by the beam at about 8 a.m., the Ohio Highway Patrol said....
Morse Bros. To Deliver Record-setting Bridge Beams - 7/26/2005
OREGON - The largest concrete beams ever used in a highway bridge in Oregon will leave the Morse Bros. Inc. concrete plant in Harrisburg Wednesday morning, destined for the Chemult bridge project on U.S. 97....
Cleanup At Site Of Bridge Collapse - 7/26/2005
ST. LOUIS - ST. LOUIS Clean-up crews are working today where a section of the closed McKinley Bridge collapsed....
Route 60 Bridge To Be Widened - 7/26/2005
LAKE FOREST - After five years of discussion, political and business leaders have forged a plan to eliminate a traffic chokepoint by widening the Route 60 bridge over the I-94 tollway in Lake Forest....
One Saboteur Killed In Bridge Collapse, At Least Three Others Hurt - 7/26/2005
IMPHAL - MPHAL, Jul 20: Hours after large-scale use of National-Highway 53 commenced yesterday, following hectic preparations by the BRO engineers, the highway link has been snapped again after suspected supporters of the ANSAM’s economic blockade destroyed a vital bridge over the Irang river in the early hours today....
State To Build Bridge Linking Airport, Edgewood Neighborhood - 7/26/2005
KENTUCKY - The state of Kentucky will build a bridge over Interstate 65, linking the Edgewood neighborhood with Louisville International Airport....
Militants Blow Up Vital Bridge, Manipur Cut Off - 7/26/2005
MANIPUR - anipur is likely to remain cut off from rest of the country for at least three more days after suspected militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah blew off a vital bridge on National Highway 53, connecting Manipur to Assam, in the wee hours of Wednesday....
Big Rig Carrying Modular Home Slams Into Bridge - 7/26/2005
SACRAMENTO - Lanes on Highway 99 in South Sacramento County were shut down Friday after a big rig carrying a modular home hit a bridge....
State: Rejection Of Road Finance Plan Will Stop Work - 7/26/2005
ALBANY - ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York state has stopped awarding transportation contracts following state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's rejection Thursday of a plan to restructure $2.9 billion in Thruway Authority borrowing for highway and bridge construction....
West Palm Says No To Bridge Funding - 7/26/2005
WEST PALM - Plans to build a bridge at Northlake Boulevard that would improve water flow from the Grassy Waters Preserve into the Loxahatchee Slough are on hold....
Transportation Resumed For Hengchun Residents - 7/26/2005
CHINA - Residents in the Hengchun area at the southern tip of the island were finally able to resume normal external transportation links as two temporary bridges were completed to replace the damaged Fengkong Bridge....
Terror Watch On Tappan Zee Bridge - 7/26/2005
ROCKLAND - On the evening of the July 7 London bombings, the Rockland Sheriff's Marine Unit was escorting the ferry from Haverstraw to Ossining when an urgent call came over the radio: suspicious vessel at the Tappan Zee Bridge....
new Turn In Tenders For Bridge Over Messina. Maire Buys Tecnim - 7/26/2005
ROME - - Rome, Jul 22 - Something has changed in the consortia competing for the contracts concerning the construction of the Bridge over the Strait of Messina after Tecnimont, an engineering company previously owned by the Edison group, was bought by Maire Holding. Indeed, Tecnimont, which has submitted its tender for the project management of the works, was previously linked to Impregilo, the company which is competing with Rome-based Astaldi to be appointed general contractor....
Pdm Program: Crew Films Documentary As Bridge Company Works On D.c. Project - 7/26/2005
DC - PALATKA - It was 88 degrees and extremely muggy Wednesday as British documentary maker Chris Walker and his three-man crew filmed workers fabricating steel at PDM Bridge for the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge, which is being lauded as the largest draw bridge in the world....
Road Project Difficulties Force State To Revise Plan - 7/26/2005
LOUISIANA - The state is taking a divide-and-conquer approach to paring down the cost of a new highway and toll bridge to make Port Fourchon in Lafourche Parish more accessible....
Gov. Fletcher Announces Plan To Build Bridge Connecting Grade Lane, Airport - 7/26/2005
LOUISVILLE - (LOUISVILLE) -- The state of Kentucky will be building a bridge to new jobs -- literally. A $4 million bridge will connect the airport to land targeted for development on the other side of Interstate 65. As WAVE 3's David McArthur reports, the announcement came as an anchor tenant announced its arrival....
Contracts Halted After Hevesi Ruling - 7/26/2005
ALBANY - ALBANY - The state has stopped awarding transportation contracts after State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi's rejection of a plan to restructure $2.9 billion in Thruway Authority borrowing for highway and bridge construction....
Highway Bill Poised To Fund Bypass Plan - 7/26/2005
GREAT FALLS - A new highway bill being hammered out in Congress is expected to include $4.5 million to help design a new bypass south of Great Falls, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Friday....
Forces Detect, Defuse Ied On J&k Highway - 7/26/2005
INDIA - efused an improvised explosive device (IED) at Ramban on Jammu and Kashmir National highway, hours before the passing of a convoy of Amarnath pilgrims, a defence spokesman said here....
Temporary Bridges Allow Resumption Of South Taiwan Traffic - 7/26/2005
TAIWAN - Army engineers and their counterparts from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday competed with each other and built two temporary bridges to replace the Fengkang Bridge, thus allowing much of the traffic between Kaohsiung and the Kenting National Park on the southern tip of the island to resume....
Old Bridge To Get Overhaul - 7/26/2005
JERSEY - The historic steel bridge that connects Passaic and Wallington is rotting. Rust corrodes its trusses, floor beams and stringers; black graffiti mars its frame....
Human Toll Of An Iconic Crossing - 7/26/2005
UK - t has established itself as an iconic feat of engineering, but the Forth Rail Bridge could have looked very different had tragedy not intervened....
Katherine Island Bridge Work Bids Higher Than Council Anticipated - 7/26/2005
ALBERT LEA - Bids for the reconstruction of the Katherine Island Bridge came in more than double the City Engineering Department's bid for the project....
Double Arch Bridge - 7/5/2005
PRICE COUNTY - Area residents urged to view situation as a wake-up call to preserve historic sites...
Rev Moon To Build Bridge Spanning Bering Strait - 7/5/2005
SIBERIA - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon will unveil his proposal for the construction of a 51-mile-long bridge between Alaska and Siberia....
17 Feared Dead As Truck Plunges Into Bengal River After Bridge Collapse:- - 7/5/2005
INDIA - At least 17 people are feared dead after a temporary bridge collapsed under the weight of a construction truck that was passing over it. The incident occurred on Saturday evening....
Howrah Bridge's Enduring Image Scarred:- - 7/5/2005
KOLKATA - The Howrah Bridge, a majestic landmark in this West Bengal capital, has become scarred forever after a cargo vessel took only a few seconds to bruise its undercarriage and dent 62 years of history....
Bridge Battle - 7/5/2005
PETALUMA - The bridge owner, the North Coast Railroad Authority, is suing Petaluma's biggest barge operator, charging its barges have damaged the Black Point train bridge at the mouth of the Petaluma River....
Unnecessary Tower Will Serve As Monument To Squabbling - 7/5/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Now that the latest round of political posturing related to the Bay Bridge is over, we're right back where we started -- with a self-consciously artistic design for a "signature" tower that doesn't have to be there in the first place....
Kaptur Seeks Federal Help In Bridge Probe - 7/5/2005
TOLEDO - U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) has asked the Labor Department to assist the Lucas County prosecutor's office in its ongoing criminal investigation of a crane collapse that killed four workers last year at the I-280 Maumee River bridge construction site....
Heavily Modified Crane Resumes Work On I-280 Project - 7/5/2005
TOLEDO - For the first time since a fatal crane collapse 16 months ago, Fru-Con Construction crews hoisted segments for a main line approach span of the new I-280 Maumee River bridge....
Vessel Stuck Under Howrah Bridge - 7/5/2005
KOLKATA - A large empty barge plying on the Ganges got stuck under the Howrah Bridge and brought traffic in western parts of Kolkata to a complete halt on Friday....
latest Satellite Technology To Help Monitor Large Bridges - 7/5/2005
BRITAIN - University experts have studied one of Britain’s most prominent landmarks in a bid to discover how the latest satellite technology could make bridges last longer and remain safe for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists....
Http://www.speroforum.com/blog/entry.asp?entry_id=189 - 7/5/2005
CALCUTTA - Alarmed at last Friday’s incident in which a barge rammed into the belly of the Howrah bridge causing damage, the Calcutta Port Trust will open talks with several regulatory authorities tomorrow to ensure such mishaps do not recur....
New Bridge Over Chesapeake Won't Ease Local Traffic - 7/5/2005
BALTIMORE - Route 50 through Annapolis isn't wide enough to handle traffic no matter where the state puts a new bridge over the bay, planners warned a statewide panel last night....
Four-lane Bridge Favored - 7/5/2005
WINTHROP - Winthrop, Mo., residents had yet another chance Thursday evening to review Amelia Earhart Bridge options, with a majority of those attending leaning toward the building a new four-lane bridge and destroying the existing one....
Mdot Prepares To Replace Bridge Over Liberty Road Interchange - 7/4/2005
MISSISSIPPI - A project that will yield a "dramatic entrance" into the city will soon be under way. Years of planning will be put into action at the Liberty Road interchange, which is to undergo major changes from the Mississippi Department of Transportation....
Dot Deems Memorial Bridge Safe To Travel - 7/4/2005
PORTSMOUTH - The Memorial Bridge is safe for traffic, despite a low 2000 National Bridge Inventory sufficiency rating, state and local officials say....
Kingston Bridge In A New Light - 7/4/2005
KINGSTON - Public art with a purpose. When Britain's busiest road bridge is in the spotlight it is usually for the wrong reasons. Lanes or the bridge itself are closed, causing gridlock for the hundreds of thousands of drivers who use it each day. It has suffered from, and been treated for, concrete cancer...
Prosecutors To Grill Former Japan Highway Exec - 7/4/2005
TOKYO - Prosecutors plan to question a 70-year-old former board member of the Japan Highway Public Corp. as early as this week over a bid-rigging scandal for bridge construction projects....
Harrison Considers Request To Rebuild Clinton Bridge
harrison Considers Request To Rebuild Clinton Bridge - 7/4/2005
HARRISON - The Road Commission is considering applying for state and federal funding for bridges in critical need to repair the Bridgeview Bridge, which connects the community....
$ 51.50m Kfaed Loan For Third Karnaphuli Bridge - 7/4/2005
BANGLADESH - Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development would provide Bangladesh a loan worth approximately US$ 51.50 million for construction of the "Third Karnaphuli Bridge" in Chittagong....
More On The Cascade Bridge Collapse - 7/4/2005
OREGON - The wreckage of a private wooden bridge, which was supported by two logs, lies in the water of the South Santiam River....
Plans Moving Forward To Replace Landmark Forest County Bridge - 7/4/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - Plans call for the construction of a two-lane bridge next year just south of the existing span. The new, 760-foot-long steel girder bridge will cost $8 million. Causeways and temporary construction bridges will be placed in the Allegheny River from which the new bridge would be built, Uhl said....
An Overdue Deal To Bridge The Bay - 7/4/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - T'S HARD to declare victory after 16 years of waiting and billions in overruns for a new Bay Bridge. No one -- not drivers, local legislators nor Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- is walking away a total winner....
Indian River Bridge Project Delayed - 7/4/2005
DOVER - Completion of the new bridge will be delayed a year -- from 2008 until 2009, State Transportation Secretary Nathan Hayward III, said. That means the current Indian River Inlet bridge will have to do for longer as work goes on....
mdot Funds Traffic Study - 7/4/2005
ONTONAGON - The Michigan Department of Transportation is funding a study to determine access to the three highway corridors into Ontonagon once the new bridge over the Ontonagon River is completed....
A Bridge Too Far Gone? - 7/4/2005
OKLAHOMA - Standing below the Interstate 244 bridge on the west bank of the Arkansas River, a state highway commissioner made a case to the media Wednesday for raising Oklahoma's fuel tax.
"It's kind of on its last legs," he said of the bridge, pointing to a crumbling support beam as traffic roared overhead. That assessment came from Guy Berry, the highway commissioner for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation's District 8 and a member of Oklahomans for Safe Bridges and Roads, a group rallying for approval of State Question 723....
Golden Gate Bridge Board Oks Criteria For Suicide Barrier Study - 4/26/2005
SF - The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District board of directors approved this morning modified criteria that will be included in a study to evaluate a proposed suicide barrier on the bridge....
Highway 12 Expansion Project: Dead In Its Tracks - 4/26/2005
WISCONSIN - The project went dead in its tracks when a Racine-based company, which had been one of the country's oldest and largest concrete paving operations shut down. James Cape and Sons is now going through bankruptcy proceedings. They left the $23 million stretch about half finished....
Feds Set To Start Welding Scrutiny - 4/26/2005
OAKLAND - The Federal Highway Administration, invoking emergency funding rules, has brought two weld inspection experts to the Bay Bridge construction site to determine if worker allegations of faulty welds have merit....
Building Bridges 'for By-election' - 4/26/2005
AUSTRALIA - REDCLIFFE residents have been promised an end to the traffic bottleneck on the Houghton Highway, with the State Government announcing a $149 million duplication of the existing three-lane bridge across Moreton Bay....
County Says Cracks In 249 Bridge State's Problem - 4/26/2005
INDIANA - Porter County Attorney Gwenn Rinkenberger said she’s preparing to write a letter informing the state that the county government is pulling out of its agreement to maintain the new Ind. 249 bridge....
Bridge Damaged By April Flood - 4/26/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - There's a gaping three-by-eight-foot hole on the wall surface of the pier closest to the New Jersey side of the river. Apparently, the supports, which were constructed in the mid-nineteenth century, are ovoid rings of masonry filled with rubble such as bricks and pieces of concrete....
Hunks Of Welds Headed To Lab For Rigorous Tests - 4/26/2005
OAKLAND - Federal inspectors plan by week's end to remove pieces of steel in the new Bay Bridge to test if welds are safe by pouring acid on the samples in a lab....
Fire-prone Span Getting Attention, New Look - 4/26/2005
SOUTH BEND - Many times over the years, firefighters from the city's Station 2 near Memorial Hospital have rushed to Howard Park to find flames shooting from its footbridge over the St. Joseph River....
Inspectors Look At Chunks Of Bay Bridge Foundation - 4/26/2005
OAKLAND - A Caltrans spokesman said several 300-pound sections of the foundation will be removed during the next few days and shipped off to a special lab for tests....
Borough Measures Knik Bridge Impact - 4/26/2005
ALASKA - Of all the uncertainties that come with building a bridge across Knik Arm from Anchorage to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the biggest may be what happens where the bridge stops and the land starts....
Catalogue Of Disasters Turns Bridge Repair Into Farce - 4/26/2005
UK - WHEN contractors shut a bridge to carry out repairs, they expected few problems and pencilled in 10 weeks to complete the job. But their efforts have been branded a farce after the project timetable doubled amid a catalogue of disasters....
Nebraska Highway Commission Approves Design Plans For Yankton Bridge - 4/26/2005
LINCOLN - Eighty percent of the project will be federally funded, with the remainder split between Nebraska and South Dakota, Hall said. The total price is expected to be $23.6 million....
Bum Bridge Snarls 880 Truck Punches Hole Through Road - 4/26/2005
OAKLAND - A piece of concrete the size of a car tire fell from an overpass on northbound Interstate 880 on Wednesday, causing a gaping hole in the middle of Northern California's busiest highway and snarling traffic the entire day....
Bay Bridge Project Wins Award - 4/26/2005
SACRAMENTO - Caltrans recognized for efforts to protect fish from sonic waves...
Republican Would Levy Aggressive Drivers For Road Needs - 4/26/2005
VA - Jerry Kilgore wants drivers who race down the freeway, lurching without warning from lane to lane and aggressively cutting off other motorists, to pay more than $100 million a year for the state's highway needs....
Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Eastern Panhandle Highway Project - 4/26/2005
W VA - A project to build a highway to the West Virginia-Virginia border and a bridge over the Shenandoah River can continue, a federal judge has ruled....
Odot Wins Excellence Award On Earth Day - 4/26/2005
OREGON - Innovative bridge replacement environmental stewardship program will improve environment...
Bay Bridge Project On Shaky Ground - 4/26/2005
OAKLAND - About 140,000 motorists play seismic roulette here every day, slapping down a $3 toll in a bet that they will make it across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and back before the earth shakes it to pieces....
Preparing To Cope With Earthquakes - 4/26/2005
ASIA - WHEN a Sumatran earthquake causes tremors or a tsunami rushes towards Malaysia, the first person the Meteorological Services Department will notify is the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Datuk Seri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis....
Germans Mark 60th Anniversary Of U.s.-soviet Elbe River Link Up - 4/26/2005
PRAGUE - There are many World War II commemorative events taking place across Europe leading up to the official 9 May "Victory Day" celebrations in Moscow. In the German town of Torgau, residents have been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the historic link up of Soviet and American soldiers at the Elbe River. The official anniversary is tomorrow. But Germans already are marking the event by dressing in the uniforms of American and Soviet troops for an historic re-enactment....
Could New Bridge Be Cleveland's Life Span? - 4/26/2005
OHIO - Cleveland is a culturally conservative town with a long history of ignoring innovative ideas in architecture and urban design. But a dramatic exception to that rule is suddenly showing signs of life....
Gas-tax Projects Widespread; Many Await Regional Funding - 4/26/2005
SEATTLE - Although tottering freeways in Seattle hog the attention, a 9 ½-cent boost in the state gas tax will fund dozens of projects across the state....
Kincardine Bridge Swings To Future - 4/26/2005
UK - BUILT to cater for the motoring boom of the 1930s, the Kincardine Bridge was considered a marvel of modern engineering....
First Meeting To Build "archimedes's Bridge" - 4/26/2005
ITALY-CHINA - The first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Sino - Italian Joint Laboratory has taken place in Beijing with the intention to study the implementation and function of a prototype of the Archimedes's Bridge, an innovative kind of stable under water crossing....
Welders Put A Shine To New Bridge - 4/26/2005
OHIO - Stainless-steel cable covers offer reflection, protection...
Worker Dies In Crane Collapse At Causeway - 4/26/2005
FLORIDA - A construction worker died and another one was critically injured Monday when a large crane dropped a 165-foot concrete piling, pulling the crane down near the Sanibel Causeway....
Sinking Sensation - 4/26/2005
MISSOURI - A portion of the old U.S. Highway 65 bridge at Waverly lays in the Missouri River after demolition crews set off a round of explosives just after 8 a.m. Monday morning. Two other segments of the bridge remain standing. They will be demolished at a later date, after workers have cleared the rubble from Monday's blasting....
When A Bridge Crumbles - 4/26/2005
NEW ZEALAND - Maverick lawyer Rob Moodie has created a legal and political storm by posting a hitherto-secret army report on the Internet that contains new information on the unending "Berryman bridge" saga....
This Bridge Really Is For Sale In Clarksville - 4/18/2005
PITTSBURG - Where the Connecticut River crosses between Clarksville and Pittsburg, there is an elderly bridge that connects these far northern towns. For a price and a plan, someone may be able to buy it this week....
Bridge On Shaky Foundation - 4/18/2005
INDIA - ILLEGAL sand lifting in the area close to Orsang river bridge has resulted in the 11 pillars of the bridge standing exposed, raising concerns about a possible collapse....
Bridge Bad-welds Flap Took On Life Of Its Own
tipster Complained Of Conditions, Not Work - 4/18/2005
SACRAMENTO - It turns out that the whistle-blower whose call to the FBI triggered the big investigation into alleged faulty welds on the new Bay Bridge hadn't even been calling about welds....
S.C. Lawmakers Hopeful Highway Bill Will Pass - 4/18/2005
WASHINGTON - The federal highway bill, that once-or-twice-a-decade opportunity to bring road and bridge money home to the states, passed the U.S. House last month and is nearly ready for a Senate vote....
in Earthquake Country, Racing Against Nature To Replace A Damaged Bridge - 4/18/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - About 140,000 motorists play a game of seismic roulette here every day, slapping down a $3 toll in a bet that they will make it across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and back before the earth shakes it to pieces....
Germans May Win Persian Gulf Bridge Project - 4/18/2005
TEHRAN - Germany is likely to win a multimillion-euro contract to construct a major bridge between the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm and Bandar Abbas port on the mainland, the English-language `Iran Daily' wrote on Saturday....
Bridge Document Stays Secret - 4/18/2005
NEW ZEALAND - Winston Peters has tried unsuccessfully to table the secret report on the collapse of an army-built bridge. It relates to the long-lasting case of King Country couple prosecuted when an army-built bridge on their farm collapsed and killed a man....
The Seven Engineering Wonders - The Coathange - 4/18/2005
AUSTRALIA - So far we've managed to get through Seven Engineering Wonders of the World including the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme, Sydney Opera House and Cochlear Implant. So this week brings us to our fourth wonder of the world - the Sydney Harbour Bridge....
Funds For 101 Work, Bridge Rail Get Nod - 4/18/2005
OAKLAND - Marin is a big winner in a $107 million cash giveaway for Bay Area transportation projects, with money going toward the Highway 101 widening project, ferry system, local roads and a high-profile Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier proposal....
A Costly Year - 4/18/2005
TAMPA - Once described as visionary, the elevated roadway in the median of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway was designed to add three lanes into downtown Tampa for the morning commute, reversing outbound to Brandon in the evening. The project - estimated then at $372 million - would save commuters about 20 minutes in travel time....
Big Dig Worker Injured In Crane Collapse - 4/18/2005
BOSTON - A man working on the Big Dig was injured when a crane collapsed and rolled into the channel Wednesday morning....
Debate Over New Eastern Span Of Bay Bridge Continues - 4/18/2005
SACRAMENTO - The political issue surrounding the plans for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge continues, and the decision on who gets the bill is at the heart of the debate. State Senate President Don Perata says he wants to keep the single tower suspension design for the Bay Bridge....
China, Russia To Build Heilongjiang River Highway Bridge - 4/18/2005
CHINA - China and Russia have set their respective responsibility for the progress of the contruction of the Heilongjiang River Highway River linking China's Heihe city and Russia's Blagovescensk. The overall design revision and the structural design of the main bridge are planned to be completed by August 2005....
California's History Of Highway Innovation - 4/18/2005
CALIFORNIA - If the car is king in California, then the state's vast highway system is its realm. Millions are spent each year on improvements, such as adding carpool lanes and shoring up bridges to withstand earthquakes. A recent innovation is numbered exit signs, which the federal government called for nationwide in 1971. California is the last state to comply....
Penang Bridge Can Withstand Magnitude 7.5 Tremors - 4/18/2005
PENANG - The structural design of the Penang Bridge can withstand tremors measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale with the epicentre located 360 kilometres from the bridge, the State Assembly sitting was told....
Toll Worker Shot On Golden Gate Bridge - 4/12/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - A female toll collector on the Golden Gate Bridge was shot and seriously injured Saturday night by a man driving a stolen car....
Hot, Stifling Quarters Make Checking On Welders Tricky - 4/12/2005
OAKLAND - Bay Bridge welders work under tough conditions where, in cramped, hot quarters, it's easy for a fatigued worker to make everyday mistakes....
State Budgets Additional Money For New Bridge - 4/12/2005
VIRGINIA - More money for a new Kings Highway Bridge has been added to a draft of the state's long-range road building plan....
Oregon Rethinking Bridge-repair Project - 4/12/2005
OREGON - Oregon officials say it might cost less than expected to fix hundreds of cracked bridges and that a $2.5 billion highway upgrade approved two years ago needs another look....
Bridge Plan For Horror Rail Crossing - 4/12/2005
SCOTLAND - Despite their fears, and a bill which is likely to run into six figures, rail authorities are determined to improve safety. Building either a bridge or an underpass would mean the road leading to the crossing would have to be closed and possibly rerouted....
Berryman Report Posted On Internet - 4/12/2005
NEW ZEALAND - Lawyer Rob Moodie has defied a court order by posting on the internet a suppressed army report on the 1994 "Berryman bridge" collapse....
Selmon Toll Increase Accelerates - 4/12/2005
TAMPA - Lee Roy Selmon Expressway tolls will increase in 2007 - 2 1/2 years earlier than scheduled - to pay for $99 million in repairs to the elevated lanes being built in the highway's median....
Federal Funding Windfall Kick-starts Bay Area Projects - 4/12/2005
OAKLAND - $122 Million Infusion Puts Transportation 2030 Plan into Action...
Moriah May Cancel Shafir Win To Build Calatrava Bridge - 4/12/2005
ISRAEL - Jerusalem Development Corporation Ltd. will probably withdraw Shafir Civil and Marine Engineering's win to build a Calatrava bridge in the city at a cost of NIS 129 million. A decision on the matter is expected in a few days. The reason is the refusal of the French participant in the project, Eiffel, to promise completion of the work or take responsibility for the planning....
National Civil Engineering Society Honors Lifetime Achievements - 4/12/2005
RESTON, VA - The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) chose five distinguished civil engineers to receive Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) awards for their lifetime contributions to the profession....
$200 Million For Cariboo Highway Improvements - 4/12/2005
CANADA - Premier Gordon Campbell has announced a $200-million upgrade of Highway 97 between Cache Creek and Prince George over the next five years....
Cleaning Up An Arroyo Mystery - 4/12/2005
PASADENA - It may sound strange, but no one is quite sure how three 150-ton slabs of concrete came to rest under the freeway bridge just south of Devil's Gate Dam....
Inspectors To Release Palm Bridge Study - 4/12/2005
FLORIDA - Island residents said they hoped the findings would contradict the claims of a Charlotte County-sponsored inspection by American Consulting Engineers that stated the bridge needs to be replaced....
What's Next If Bad Welds Are Found? - 4/12/2005
OAKLAND - Experts debate possible reprecussions of shoddy work for troubled Bay Bridge project...
Revolutionary War Bridge Gives Glimpse Of 18th Century - 4/12/2005
FERRISBURGH, VT. - For more than two centuries, the waters of Lake Champlain have hidden the remains of a marvel of 18th-century engineering — a bridge built by 2,500 sick and hungry Continental soldiers....
Welding Inquiries Mounting - 4/12/2005
OAKLAND - Federal Highway Administration investigators could begin inspecting welds on the new Bay Bridge — on the federal government's dime — as soon as Wednesday....
New Concrete Bridge Planned For Lake Gerar - 4/12/2005
DELAWARE - A new concrete bridge will replace the crumbling Lake Gerar Bridge, the Rehoboth Beach Board of Commissioners decided this week....
Bonds Approved For New Mississippi River Bridge - 4/12/2005
BATON ROUGE, LA - A new Mississippi River bridge to link Saint Francisville to New Roads will be between the River Bend nuclear plant and the Crown Vantage paper mill....
Contractor Will Take Look At S-curve Rail Bridge - 4/12/2005
DES PLAINES - The city is awaiting the railroad's plan for the bridge as well as its financing possibilities, he said. The cost of three renovation scenarios could reach anywhere from $28 to $40 million, and hard cost estimates are still under review....
New Ind 249 Bridge Cracking - 4/12/2005
INDIANA - Less than a year old, the new bridge that accesses U.S. Steel’s Midwest plant in Portage has developed cracks that are raising serious concerns for county officials responsible with the bridge maintenance....
11 Injured In Browns Valley Deck Collapse - 4/12/2005
NAPA - A deck crowded with birthday well-wishers collapsed in west Napa Saturday night, dumping nearly two dozen adults and youngsters into the void below....
'Hidden' Death Toll Of Forth Bridge Revealed - 3/29/2005
UK - AT LEAST 21 more men died building the Forth Bridge than has previously been thought, historians revealed today....
Lessons From Howrah Bridge - 3/29/2005
INDIA - A little known fact about Howrah Bridge (its official name is still Rabindra Setu) in Kolkata is that it is maintained by the Kolkata Port Trust. Why the Kolkata Port Trust? And why not the the Kolkata Corporation or the Kolkata Municipal Development Authority ?...
Company Responds To Fords Bridge Cracks - 3/29/2005
OREGON - The builder of Fords Bridge claims the design and a twisting action caused when truck traffic headed in opposite directions on the same span are to blame for cracks that developed....
Cross-border Bridge Back Online After 'sliding' - 3/29/2005
UK - The Belfast to Dublin railway line was scheduled to re-open this morning following a delicate operation to slide into place a giant new bridge....
Fallen Bridge Big News In Small Town - 3/29/2005
INDIANA - It happened early Sunday morning. Investigators said 31-year old Frank Moyes was driving drunk and speeding when his truck hit a support beam. Moyes and his truck crashed into the river, and so did the bridge. Moyes suffered only minor injuries....
Woman Slightly Hurt After Bridge Plunge - 3/29/2005
PORTLAND - A woman was left amazed, but only slightly injured, after her sport utility vehicle fell 60 feet off a bridge and sank an additional 55 feet to the bottom of a river....
Worker Killed In Fall From Bridge Wasn't Wearing Safety Gear - 3/29/2005
COLUMBIA, TENN - Police are investigating the death of a Kentucky highway worker who wasn't wearing safety equipment when he fell from a bridge and died....
Big Dig Political Jockeying Ramps Up - 3/29/2005
BOSTON - The only thing with more twists and turns than Boston’s leaky Big Dig highway tunnels may be Massachusetts’ notorious bumper car politics....
Bridges' Future Key For Dot - 3/29/2005
SO. CAROLINA - A state agency's efforts to address concerns over cracks in two Beaufort County bridges are to be commended, engineers and transportation officials said this week, but the situation requires continued scrutiny to protect the health of the crossings in the future....
Mass-highway Scraps Plans For Expensive Overhaul - 3/29/2005
MASSACHUSETTS - The Massachusetts State Highway Department is scrapping plans for an expensive overhaul of the Hadley Overpass in North Adams....
Helpers Jump To Wrong Conclusion When Car Stops On Bridge - 3/29/2005
SAN DIEGO - When a vehicle stalled on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge yesterday morning and the driver got out to get help, authorities thought the worst. Leaving a car on the bridge is frequently a last move by people getting ready to jump....
Blasting The Bridge (photo) - 3/29/2005
CHIPPEWA VALLEY - A construction project moves forward with a blast. Crews are blasting the piers at the Clairemont bridge....
New Report Details Indiana's Transportation Funding Dilemma - 3/29/2005
INDIANA - -A new report by a Minnesota-based organization continues to document an issue that concerns all of Indiana: growing shortfalls on the state highway system, and the recommended highway funding mechanisms that might handle these increasing demands....
The Bay Bridge Approaches: Congestion Is Getting Worse - 3/29/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Traffic congestion in San Francisco was born, quite abruptly, on Nov. 12, 1936 — the day the Bay Bridge opened, injecting three lanes of East Bay automobile traffic into the heart of downtown....
Marietta Bridge Project Progressing - 3/29/2005
OHIO - The Ohio Department of Transportation has secured $1 million in state funding that will be used to move the North Muskingum Bridge project ahead, despite opposition from some Washington County residents....
Millions Approved For Golden Gate, Novato Narrows Work - 3/22/2005
CALIFORNIA - A large chunk of money for the seismic retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge was part of a mammoth highway and transit bill approved yesterday by the House of Representatives that aims to reduce traffic congestion nationwide....
Bay Bridge Project California's 'biggest Fiasco' - 3/22/2005
CALIFORNIA - Hobbled by cost overruns, schedule delays and political squabbling, the Bay Bridge project has seen cost estimates balloon from $1.3 billion eight years ago to $5.1 billion today....
State Supreme Court Rules On Damages In Crane Collapse - 3/22/2005
OHIO - The Wisconsin Supreme Court today overturned an appeals court ruling that had vacated the $94 million punitive-damages award in the Big Blue crane case....
Report Into Bridge Accident Needs To Go Further - 3/22/2005
UK - "The report outlines the history of recorded incidents involving the impact of high-speed winds on high-sided vehicles. In fact it details all the necessary engineering parameters and technical safety requirements adopted by Best Practice in Britain on similar bridge structures."...
Boston's Big Dig Faces Major Problems (audio) - 3/22/2005
BOSTON - Scott Simon digs into the latest in the ongoing controversy surrounding Boston's Big Dig highway project. He talks with Rafael Lewis of The Boston Globe, who has been covering the story....
A New, Well-planned Inner Belt Deserves The State's Creativity - 3/22/2005
CLEVELAND - Some city-planning ideas are so bad they deserve instant death on the drawing board. Thanks to the Ohio Department of Transportation, Cleveland now has a perfect example....
Four Killed As Mexico Bridge Collapses - 3/22/2005
MEXICO - A footbridge loaded with villagers on their way to a religious festival collapsed, sending four people to their deaths in the rocky river ravine below, authorities and witnesses said Sunday....
House Passes $284 Billion Highway, Mass Transit Bill - 3/22/2005
WASHINGTON - Eighteen months late and billions of dollars short of what they wanted, House members on Thursday passed a highway bill designed to ease congestion, repair crumbling roads and prevent thousands of traffic fatalities....
Cost Overruns Hobbled Bay Bridge Project - 3/22/2005
CALIFORNIA - When Northern California leaders set out to replace the seismically vulnerable eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, they hoped to create something to rival the iconic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge to the west....
Engineering Inspector Second To Be Indicted - 3/22/2005
NEW JERSEY - Barry C. Bowers, a township engineering inspector, is accused of seeking and receiving thousands of dollars in financial favors from developers doing business with the township, in exchange for favorable service and rulings on applications, permits and inspections, according to state Attorney General Peter C. Harvey’s office....
House Of Cards, Bridge Of Steel
why Not Do Nothing To Defend The Golden Gate Bridge? - 3/22/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - All our carefully considered structural modifications, security precautions and other expert-driven measures aside, the bottom-line question still remains: "How do we keep the Golden Gate Bridge safe from a terror attack?" To which a seemingly end-of-the-road response might be, "How about doing nothing? What if we left the bowed wonder just as it is?"...
Sheyanghu Super-scale Bridge Holing In - 3/22/2005
CHINA - As reported by Yangtse Evening, the first filling pile of the longest bridge over expressway under construction in our province-Sheyanghu Super-scale Bridge was holed in formally on April 15....
Canopy Walk: Soaring High On My Flight Of Fancy - 3/22/2005
PHILIPPINES - Why? Because that is my "ultimate" test to myself--to try walk on the highest suspended bridge there is in the Philippines connected among tall trees, be on top of everything, and be a spectator of the flourishing greenness 120 feet below....
Designing Suicide Barrier For Golden Gate Bridge Won't Be Easy - 3/22/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate Bridge officials gave the green light to move ahead with studies for a suicide barrier Friday, leaving engineers with the difficult task of designing a structure that can stop bridge jumpers without marring the world-famous span....
Prefab Bridges Touted As Trucking Aid - 3/22/2005
LAS VEGAS - A highway contractor stated that municipalities will increasingly look to "prefabricated" bridges as a means to cut construction times, as well as the resulting traffic congestion, here at the 86th annual meeting of the Associated General Contractors of America....
Bridge's Falling Ice Called Fluke Of Nature - 3/22/2005
BOSTON - Big Dig officials and the engineer who designed the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge yesterday dismissed concerns about falling ice from the span's cable stays, calling Sunday's alarming cascade a ''fluke" caused by the weather....
$284 Billion, But Not One Cent For A-k Bridge - 3/22/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - The Alle-Kiski Valley is slated to get more than $10 million in federal highway money over the next six years, but not a single dollar will go toward the proposed Alle-Kiski Connector Bridge because PennDOT doesn't support the project....
Cobrae Conference 2005 - Bridge Engineering With Polymer Composites - 3/22/2005
SWITZERLAND - In the ongoing quest to find lighter, more durable and easier to install components for modern bridges and other engineered structures, fibre reinforced polymer composites are finding a more and more prominent place...
Bridge Collapse Kills 4 In Henan - 3/22/2005
CHINA - An abrupt bridge collapse killed four people and injured four others Sunday in central China's Henan Province, local police said on Monday....
Bridge Stamp Denied - 3/22/2005
ST IGNACE - A proposal for a commemorative U.S. postage stamp to recognize the Mackinac Bridge 50th anniversary in 2007 has been turned down...
Dash Over Rhine Bridge Sealed The Nazis'
Defeat - 3/8/2005
US - This is one of an occasional series of stories commemorating the upcoming 60th anniversary of the end of World War II....
Dubuque Moves Forward With Highway 20 Bridge Project - 3/8/2005
CEDAR RAPIDS - Dubuque is moving closer to a day when it may have another bridge over the Mississippi, but the plan depends on getting a lot of federal dollars...
Green Light For Macau, Hong Kong Bridge - 3/8/2005
BEIJING - China has given the green light to link Hong Kong to Macau and the mainland with a multi-billion-dollar road bridge, the China Daily said on Tuesday...
Five Killed, 83 Rescued In Bridge Collapse In East China: - 3/8/2005
CHINA - The mishap occured in Lin'an city's famous West Zhejiang Canyon, where all 88 people on the 244-metre-long bridge fell into the river. However, most of them were rescued. Five injured tourists are out of critical conditon....
A Bridge With Stuff To Strut - 3/8/2005
TACOMA - An outstanding engineering feat in a project full of them, the braces that will strengthen the new Tacoma Narrows bridge are built to stand up to earthquakes, 127-mph gusts and millions of pounds of dead weight....
Environmental Studies To Hold Up Bridge Work - 3/8/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - Work to replace a 19th-century stone bridge near Stouchsburg will not begin for at least 18 months, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation official said....
Inquiry Into Coega Bridge Collapse Resumes - 3/8/2005
AFRICA - The formal inquiry into the collapse of a bridge at Coega near Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape two years ago, has resumed at the Coega Construction Village....
Old Bridge Blown Up As Construction Continues - 3/8/2005
OHIO - Napoleon residents will experience short term pain for long term gain this year. Sunday, demolition crews imploded a 75-year-old bridge that provided motorists with a direct route between the city's north and south sides, and as you might expect, people lined the shores of the Maumee River to watch....
Bridge Overbudget, Overpriced, Overdue - 3/8/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - 15 years later, the boondoggle by the bay still unfinished...
Toronto Police Spoke To Man Moments Before He Tossed Daughter, 5, Over Bridge - 3/8/2005
TORONTO - Police spoke briefly with a suicidal man moments before he threw his five-year-old daughter at least 15 metres from a bridge above Canada's busiest highway, then jumped to his death....
Huge Cranes Clear Bay Bridge By 5 Feet On Trip To Oakland (photos) - 3/8/2005
OAKLAND - Two 241-foot cranes weighing 1,500 tons each barely clear the span of the Bay Bridge on Saturday as the ship delivering them continued to the Port of Oakland. The California Highway Patrol slowed bridge traffic in both directions as a safety precaution as the tops of the cranes passed within 5 feet of the underside of the bridge....
House Of Cards, Bridge Of Steel
bomb-proofing The Golden Gate - 3/8/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - It's called "progressive collapse." Suddenly jolted, a beam or column in a building fails, sending strange new forces into a neighboring component, which in turn crumbles, pulling down with it concrete and steel, until critical struts and massive walls heave downward, like the Twin Towers in 2001, sliding into ground zero in explosive clouds of dust....
A Bridge Unlike Any Other Takes Shape - 3/8/2005
DELAWARE - Since 1934, erosion has doomed five spans built over Indian River Inlet...
Udot Details Plans For Provo Canyon, Other Road Projects - 3/8/2005
UTAH - "This is a fairly big program for the county down here," said Region 3 director Tracy Conti.
"Provo Canyon is definitely the glamour project, to say the least. I don't know if it's the biggest one going on in Utah now, probably U-201 (in Salt Lake County) is bigger as far as dollars are concerned, but as far as the technical work, on Provo Canyon — we've got a structure that's going to span 500 feet and a couple hundred feet above the ground right where the road will tie into the dam. It's going to be an engineering marvel."...
Bill Would Fund Bridge Work - 3/8/2005
US - The committee included the money as part of a six-year, $284 billion package for transit and highway projects called the Transportation Equity Act...
Improperly-shaped Beams Delay South Main Street Bridge Project - 3/8/2005
HANIBAL - Access to the South Side via South Main Street will be delayed a few months longer than expected. Jim Burns, city engineer, says that it will be June at the earliest before the bridge project is completed....
Engineers: Mickley Bridge Should Be Replaced - 3/8/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - Large section of stone fell into Jordan Creek last week. New span might take 2 years....
`world's Second Longest Bridge' — Six Consortiums In Fray For Rs 4,000-cr Sea Link - 3/8/2005
MUMBAI - THE Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, that found special mention by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, during his Budget speech, is up and running. Six international consortiums are pitted against each other in the RFQ (request for quotation) stage for the first phase implementation of what is billed to become the second longest bridge in the world. Currently, the longest such linkage is the one between Malmo in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark....
State Narrows Sites For Hood Canal Bridge Pontoons - 3/8/2005
SEATTLE - The state Department of Transportation said it has narrowed to three sites its search for a place to build the pontoons that will replace the east half of the Hood Canal Bridge. WSDOT had to stop work on a 22-acre site at Port Angeles in December, after work crews discovered Native American artifacts and human remains....
Report Blames Cn Rail For Fatal Bridge Collapse - 3/8/2005
CANADA - Problems with rot on a Canadian National Railway Co.
Last Embrace As Two Plunge Over Bridge - 3/8/2005
SOUTH AFRICA - Two men hugged and then, holding each other, plunged off a highway bridge into peak-hour traffic below, in a bizarre suicide pact....
Bay Bridge Project Turns Into Major Fiasco - 3/8/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California leaders wanted to create a regional landmark that would express the beauty and spirit of the Bay Area when they set out to replace the seismically vulnerable eastern span of the Bay Bridge....
Small Structures Teach Big Lessons - 3/1/2005
OREGON - Nate Strang tried to cut some weight before a big competition, but instead of sweating off the pounds like a boxer or wrestler, he used a piece of sandpaper....
House Of Cards, Bridge Of Steel
finding A Rational Approach To Protecting The Golden Gate Against Irrational Acts - 3/1/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - "The nice thing about big bridges," says Kary Witt, "is that they're big. You don't blow up a big bridge with a little bomb."...
It's Everybody's Fault - 3/1/2005
CALIFORNIA - It's easy to understand why so many of us are ill prepared for the Big One. A frank discussion of everything that can and probably will go wrong in a major earthquake is profoundly depressing....
Opposition To Bridge Idea - 3/1/2005
MONTREAL - 76 percent of Montrealers say they are opposed to building another bridge between Montreal and Laval...
New Hope For Massachusetts Covered Bridges - 3/1/2005
MASSACHUSETTS - Folks here hold an abiding fondness for the old interlocked timbers -- so much so that for the second time in a century, they banded together to beat back attempts to replace it with steel and concrete....
Bailey Bridge Collapse Killing Driver's Mate - 3/1/2005
GHANA - A driver's mate was killed while four others including the diver sustained injuries when a bailey bridge collapsed sending a long vehicle belonging to the Adventist Relief Agency (ADRA) into the Ochi River at Gomoa Brofo in the Central Region....
Balloons Will Simulate East End Bridge Approach - 3/1/2005
LOUISVILLE - Thanks to helium-filled balloons, residents in Louisville's East End will have an opportunity March 8 and 9 to visualize the height of the proposed Ohio River bridge approach....
Next Bay Bridge Phase Expected To Be Costly - 3/1/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - A day after state transportation officials announced plans in December to abandon the single-tower suspension span of the new Bay Bridge, construction crews carefully lowered a huge steel form into the bay to begin building the tower's foundation....
Millennium Bridge To Close For Wobble Check - 3/1/2005
UK - The Corporation of London says that all highway structures are inspected regularly and the Millennium Bridge - now almost five years old - is due for its first general inspection....
Tender To Build The Zambezi Bridge - 3/1/2005
AFRICA - The bridge. which is planned as a key link in the main north-south highway, is to be 2,376 metres long and 16 metres wide, with four lanes, two for vehicles and the other two for bicycles and pedestrians....
Indians Work Apace To Repair Damaged Bridge - 3/1/2005
ADDALAICHENAI - The reconstruction of the 160 metre old bridge which was damaged by the tsunami has now been completed and the connected bridge of 110 metre is now being constructed newly....
Critics Want See-through Guardrails On Q Bridge - 3/1/2005
NEW HAVEN - Soaring cables and brightly lit towers will be a sight to see on the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, but views of New Haven and its waterways may not be....
Port Boom, Population Growth And Nafta Lead To Increasing Number Of 18 Wheelers - 3/1/2005
CALIFORNIA - They're the behemoths of the highway, and more are coming. More are coming from the north as Los Angeles-area ports boom with imported goods once made in America and now manufactured in Asia....
Bridge Set For Weight Limit As Tests Spark Safety Fears - 3/1/2005
SCOTLAND - WEIGHT and width restrictions are set to be introduced on a road bridge in West Lothian over fears it may collapse....
Remnant Of Revolutionary War Engineering Marvel Washes Ashore - 3/1/2005
LAKE CHAMPLAIN - A bridge built across Lake Champlain by about 2,500 underfed and sick Continental Army soldiers in the late winter and early spring of 1777 was considered a marvel of 18th Century engineering....
Golden Gate Bridge May Get Suicide Barrier - 3/1/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate Bridge officials Thursday moved closer to building a barrier to prevent people from jumping off the famous suspension bridge, where about 1,300 people have killed themselves since the landmark opened in 1937....
Bill Imposes Bridge Costs On Bay Area - 3/1/2005
SACRAMENTO - A Southern California legislator has submitted a bill that would force the Bay Area to pay for all cost overruns on the new Bay Bridge eastern span and would change the law to allow the state to discard the single-tower suspension design now required by law....
Rendell Promises $68 Million To Avoid Mass-transit Cutbacks - 3/1/2005
HARRISBURG - Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday pledged to immediately divert $68 million in federal highway funds to avert impending service cuts and fare increases at the state's two largest mass-transit agencies....
Ausable River Trestle Collapsed By Derailment - 2/22/2005
MICHIGAN - — The historic AuSable River railroad trestle was destroyed Friday night by the chain reaction of a train derailment....
Study New Tube, Vdot Head Says - 2/22/2005
VIRGINIA - Transportation Commissioner Philip A. Shucet recommended Wednesday that the state move forward with two private proposals to build a third bridge-tunnel connecting the Peninsula and South Hampton Roads....
Bridge Losing Concrete Chunks - 2/22/2005
IOWA - Three pieces of concrete that have fallen or been removed from a 7-year-old bridge since Friday do not compromise the bridge's safety, the Iowa City's public works director said....
Toll Soars To Fund New Bridge - 2/22/2005
AUSTRALIA - DRIVERS face toll jumps of more than 50 per cent over the next six years to pay for a $1.6 billion upgrade of the Gateway Bridge and Motorway....
Planning Council Examines Bridge Options - 2/22/2005
WEST VIRGINIA - Local planners say a new bridge spanning the Ohio River south of Wellsburg makes sense, but it likely will be at least a dozen years before it can be built....
A Bridge Too Fat - 2/22/2005
NEW YORK - The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has a weight problem. Over the decades, the 65-year-old suspension bridge has been bulked up to make it more stable. But now engineers have decided that it has grown too beefy....
Firm Says It Warned Of Flaw In Bay Bridge Project - 2/22/2005
MARYLAND - The company that began replacing the deck on the westbound Bay Bridge in 2002 said yesterday that it repeatedly warned state officials that a bonding agent required under the project's specifications could fail - a prediction that came true when concrete on the span developed extensive cracks last year....
Lawmakers Fight For More Highway Funds - 2/22/2005
WASHINGTON - The six-year, $283.9 billion measure is poised to become the year's first big test of the California delegation and its commitment to getting more for the nation's largest state....
Local Officials Throw Support Behind Bridge - 2/22/2005
IDAHO - Though plans for a third bridge over the Snake River Canyon in Magic Valley had been 20 years away, the Twin Falls City Council is now on board with the governor's plan to speed up construction by 10 years....
Bridge Project Gets Push - 2/22/2005
BRANSON - Even as crews are still blasting a path through Hollister to widen U.S. 65, the state has agreed to make 65 four lanes from Branson to Hollister....
Indian Soldiers Help Reconstruct Arugam Bay Bridge - 2/22/2005
SRI LANKA - Soldiers of the Indian Army contingent that arrived in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of tsunami disaster have started construction of temporary spans over the partially but heavily damaged Arugam Bay bridge in Amparai district. Multiple spans of a total of 150 feet were destroyed of the 350 feet bridge when the wave struck, engineering sources in Amparai said....
Proposed Mississippi River Bridge Could Honor Reagan - 2/22/2005
MISSOURI - There's no money to start building a new Mississippi River bridge, but the $1.6 billion project has a proposed name: The Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Bridge....
C-dot Seeks New Contractor For Girder Repair - 2/22/2005
COLORADO - A different contractor will install girders above the C-470 and Interstate 70 interchange that was the site of a deadly accident last May when a girder collapsed onto the highway, killing three people....
Bridge Chaos On Coast Road - 2/22/2005
UK - North Tyneside Council plans to spend around £2m replacing the bridge on the A1058 Coast Road after consultants said it was technically no longer capable of bearing traffic....
Bridge Collapse Case Awaits Decision - 2/15/2005
NEW ZEALAND - A Wellington High Court judge has reserved his decision on whether to review an earlier court ruling that the army must hand over documents relating to a fatal bridge collapse on a King Country farm....
Dot Considering Port Angeles For Hood Canal Bridge Concrete Anchors - 2/15/2005
PORT ANGELES - - Some of the massive concrete anchors for the new Hood Canal Bridge eastern half might be built in the Port Angeles area, Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald said Monday night....
$6 Toll For Gate Bridge Possible
hikers, Bicyclists May Also Have To Pay To Cross Over - 2/15/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - The Golden Gate Bridge District, still reeling from a back-breaking budget deficit, outlined a series of proposals Wednesday to bring in more cash, including a $6 toll and possible charges to pedestrians and bicyclists crossing the span....
Calais Cautious, Excited About Bridge Funding - 2/15/2005
MAINE - The Canadian government already has pledged its half of the nearly $100 million needed to construct the Maine-New Brunswick bridge, which would have one end near the Calais industrial park. The United States is still searching for the funds....
Professor Draws Up Plans For Bay Bridge - 2/15/2005
BERKELEY - UC Berkeley professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl has a bridge to sell you....
2005 Aia Gold Medal To Santiago Calatrava - 2/15/2005
DC - - Internationally acclaimed architect Santiago Calatrava, FAIA, was selected by the Board of Directors of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) to receive the 2005 AIA Gold Medal....
Planners Ask For Help To Design Bridge - 2/15/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - Transportation officials are looking to residents for assistance with the design of the bridge that will connect Routes 15 and 147 as part of the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway....
Doolittle Secures $7 Million For Folsom Bridge - 2/15/2005
CALIFORNIA - Folsom's bid to find a replacement for a route over the Folsom Dam closed more than two years ago because of terrorist concerns is in line for $7 million in federal funding....
14-lane Bridge Replacement Proposed - 2/15/2005
KENTUCKY - The $2.3 million feasibility study, which Rust discussed at a Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce gathering Monday, made several important determinations...
Guns Don't Kill, Bridges Do - 2/15/2005
US - But alas, also a suicide magnet in a way other bridges for some reason just are not. Therefore in the interests of saving lives the Golden Gate Bridge must be closed a gun rights group reasonably suggests....
Lawmakers Leery Of Bay Bridge Plan
state Senators Say Cost Of Causeway Can't Be Foreseen - 2/15/2005
SACRAMENTO - Skeptical legislators grilled Caltrans officials, bridge engineers and architects Tuesday about the state's plan to complete the overrun-plagued new eastern span of the Bay Bridge with a concrete causeway instead of a single-tower suspension bridge....
South Dakotan Expects New Bridge - 2/15/2005
OMAHA - Regardless of whether more federal money becomes available, a new Missouri River bridge will be built to connect South Dakota and Nebraska, according to Leon Schochenmaier of the South Dakota Transportation Department....
Experts List Why Bay Bridge Cracked - 2/15/2005
MARYLAND - A combination of bad planning and problems with contractors led to $7 million in cracked and unusable concrete on the Bay Bridge, a group of engineers studying the public works fiasco said in report released this morning....
Historic Bridge On Verge Of Collapse - 2/15/2005
POUGHKEEPSIE - The stone supports of the Tioronda Bridge in Beacon are falling apart. The 1872 bridge is on the National Registry of Historic Places, and notable for its unusual bowstring arches....
Bay Area Bridge Tolls Not A Bad Deal - 2/15/2005
SACRAMENTO - Compared with commuters around the world, Bay Area motorists have it easy with the current $3 toll on seven state-owned bridges. But that could change as lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger haggle over how to pay the rising cost of rebuilding the Bay Bridge's eastern span....
Early Memo Spelled Out Crane Danger - 2/15/2005
TOLEDO - From their office in the plains of northern Italy, designers of two hulking cranes worried about how they would be used to build a bridge set to reshape Toledo's skyline....
New Yankton-to-nebraska Bridge Will Be Built - 2/15/2005
SOUTH DAKOTA - Regardless of whether more federal money comes down the pipe, a new Missouri River bridge will be built at Yankton, according to Leon Schochenmaier of the South Dakota Department of Transportation....
Unr Scientists Simulate Quake To Assess Damage To Model Bridge - 2/15/2005
RENO - Researchers simulated a powerful earthquake on a model concrete bridge at the University of Nevada, Reno Thursday to assess damage scientists hope will help engineers design safer highway structures....
The Second Niger Bridge - 2/15/2005
AFRICA - When recently it was reported that the existing bridge is showing clear evidence of stress arising from over use, the government acknowledged the need for a second bridge but said that it could not afford the cost now. What is this cost? Some official estimates put it at more than N30 billion. That is what government says it cannot afford amidst the clear danger that a possible collapse of the ageing Niger bridge poses to commuters....
Scientists Shake Up Quake Research - 2/15/2005
RENO - The structure used in Thursday’s test was for all intents and purposes a real bridge — a 70-foot-long, 135-ton concrete span built with the help of Granite Construction Co....
Caltrans Chief Says Skyway Is Only Way - 2/15/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Caltrans Director Will Kempton stuck to his view Thursday that a skyway, not a tower, is the most prudent way to finish the Bay Bridge, but he seemed to hold the door ajar to options....
Honor Slated For 4 Killed As Crane Fell At I-280 Span - 2/15/2005
TOLEDO - I-280 construction workers will lay down their tools and shut down their machines for a minute on Wednesday afternoon to mark the anniversary of the crane collapse last year that killed four co-workers and injured four others...
Board Hears Arguments On Bridge Construction - 2/15/2005
PROVIDENCE - For five hours an appointed, three-person Board of View listened to legal arguments and testimony at the township building Monday to determine whether the township can legally build a proposed $1.1 million bridge on North Grange Avenue over Rock Creek Run....
Curran Seeking Federal Highway Funds - 2/1/2005
WOBURN - At a recent two-day national mayor's conference in Washington, D.C., Mayor John Curran made his pitch for funding for several key projects in Woburn....
Opened-bridge Survivor Lived Through Holocaust - 2/1/2005
FLORIDA - Koton was about halfway across the span on her way to Wal-Mart when she realized the tender was raising the bridge. She said she thought of her three granddaughters back home in Massachusetts and held on for dear life....
Bridge Film Flimflam - 2/1/2005
CANADA - Not only did Winnipeggers pay $1 million to put a toilet on a footbridge, they also shelled out another $100,000 -- plus GST -- to pay a movie crew to film a documentary on it....
Caltrans Proposes To Expand Caldecott Tunnel - 2/1/2005
OAKLAND - Already embroiled in controversy over construction of a new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans officials have unveiled another major project Bay Area project that faces a number of challenges -- building a fourth bore to the Caldecott Tunnel to relieve traffic stress on Highway 24....
Amador Bypass Worker Dies After Fall - 2/1/2005
CALIFORNIA - A 51-year-old Placerville man fell 50 feet to his death Thursday while working on a segment of the new Highway 49 Amador bypass project....
Costly - But Safest - Crosstown Fix Picked - 2/1/2005
TAMPA - State highway officials chose the safest and most expensive option Thursday in approving a plan to repair the elevated lanes of the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway....
Ice Jams Cause Irreparable Bridge Damage - 2/1/2005
CANADA - It appears two bridges north of Kamloops will have be replaced because of damage caused by river ice jams this week....
More Answers Sought In Probe Of Crane Collapse - 2/1/2005
TOLEDO - News 11 has learned new details about the criminal investigation surrounding the I-280 Truss collapse that killed four ironworkers last year....
More Criticism Of Bay Bridge Snafu - 2/1/2005
CALIFORNIA - A State Senate panel peppered the state's two top transportation officials Wednesday with questions about Caltrans' ability to handle a redesign of the Bay Bridge project....
Man's Body Found After Bridge Collapse - 2/1/2005
AUSTRALIA - Authorities have recovered the body of a 53-year old man who was swept into floodwaters in north Queensland this week....
San Francisco Grapples Again With Bridge Suicides - 2/1/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco officials are again grappling with an issue as old as the Golden Gate Bridge: how to stop people from killing themselves by jumping off the city's most famous landmark....
Coast Guard Investigating Mississippi River Bridge Crashes - 2/1/2005
VICKSBURG - The U-S Coast Guard will determine whether a Saint Louis barge company will be fined after its two of its tows hit the Mississippi River bridges at Vicksburg this past week....
Ice Jams Flood Valley Communities - 2/1/2005
CLEARWATER - Events started at about 9 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23, when Argo Road Maintenance notified area highways manager Vern Goodwin that the Highway 5 bridge at Mad River had been damaged by ice and water....
Damaged Covered Bridge Will Be Saved - 2/1/2005
GEORGIA - Walter Rinard was a happy man when he learned Monday that the covered bridge, which had been part of his own childhood and family history, will, indeed, be saved and restored....
Environmental Groups Offer Alternative To Circ Construction - 2/1/2005
MAINE - A coalition of environmental and "smart-growth" groups Monday recommended an alternative to the next two sections of the controversial Chittenden County Circumferential Highway, proposing a traffic system that would include six roundabouts....
Crane Hits Bridge, Atchafalaya Closed To River Traffic - 2/1/2005
LA - The Atchafalaya River was closed to river traffic on Sunday after a crane on a barge struck an old highway bridge that connects Morgan City and Berwick, the U.S. Coast Guard said....
Tri-rail Bridge Project Derailed Over Construction Dispute - 2/1/2005
MIAMI - Construction of a high-level bridge that will let Tri-Rail commuter trains soar over the South Fork of the New River without waiting for boats has stopped in its tracks in a dispute over bridge standards....
A Bridge Too Far Out - 2/1/2005
MALAYSIA - Johor Bahru member of parliament and Backbencher Club Chairman Shahrir Samad must be commended for his courage for being the first Malaysian leader to openly call for the scrapping of the proposed bridge to replace the causeway to Singapore....
Flyover @ 36 Hours! - 2/1/2005
INDIA - proposed flyover at the ITO intersection is to be built with pre-fabricated material in 36 hours. Delhi Times finds out how...
Filmed Suicides Renew Debate Over Barriers On Golden Gate Bridge - 2/1/2005
SAN FRANCISCO - The Golden Gate Bridge's stylish beauty masks a darker trait: the world's most famous suicide venue. More than 1,300 troubled souls have jumped to their deaths since the towering red Art Deco span opened in 1937....
Osborne's Appointment Gives Boost To Nebraska-s.d. Bridge - 2/1/2005
NEBRASKA - Supporters of replacing the aging Missouri River bridge at Yankton got a boost when U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne, R-Neb., was appointed to a key panel, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee....
Woodrow Wilson Bridge Beats Obstacles As It Becomes Beltway Savior - 2/1/2005
MARYLAND - After more than four years of construction, the $2.4-billion plan to build a new Woodrow Wilson Bridge across the Potomac River and expand adjacent segments of the Capital Beltway has reached the one-third-complete mark. The scorecard so far?...
Caltrans Delayed Disclosing Bay Bridge Project's Money Woes - 1/25/2005
SACRAMENTO - Newly uncovered Caltrans documents show the state agency sat on an official report that it ran out of money to finish the Bay Bridge one month before opening bids on the project. At the same time Caltrans was already looking at a new design, the records show....
Bridge Grilling Starts Today - 1/25/2005
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers want to know why Caltrans never reported it couldn't fund the
projec...
Caltrans Could See Major Management Reforms - 1/25/2005
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers plan to lash Caltrans and the agency that oversees it in a series of hearings next week, berating top officials for concealing cost overruns on the $5.9 billion Bay Bridge replacement....
Shahrir Urges Scrapping Of New Bridge, Rail Service To Singapore - 1/25/2005
SINGAPORE - Backbenchers Club Chairman (BBC) Datuk Shahrir Samad Sunday called on the government to scrap the proposed new bridge to replace the Johor causeway and terminate the KTM Berhad rail service into Singapore....
Storms Cause Flood Damage Along Beirut River - 1/25/2005
LEBANON - The heavy rain and strong winds afflicting Lebanon since Saturday snapped a bridge in the Karantina area and flooded the Beirut River....
Report Urges Scrapping Of Bay Bridge Plan B - 1/25/2005
SACRAMENTO - A new independent report on the Bay Bridge replacement said Monday that a proposal to switch designs might end up delaying construction and costing even more money to complete the nearly $6 billion project....
PennDOT Announces Location For New Bridge - 1/25/2005
PENNSYLVANIA - Where to construct a new Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge over the Monongahela River in Point Marion was settled upon after a public meeting to garner support held recently in the borough....
Bridge Still Floating - 1/25/2005
AFRICA - The General Manager of the Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering Ltd, Zaccheaus Forjindam, has reassured the public that the floating bridge which was constructed and put across River Mungo close to five months ago, is technically still in a solid and good state....
Drivers Ok After Truck Falls Off Highway Onto Car - 1/25/2005
CLEVELAND - A tractor-trailer slid on ice on Interstate 71 near the MetroHealth Curve and the truck's cab fell 50 feet off the highway onto The Jennings Freeway early Tuesday morning....
Anger Boils Over At Bay Bridge Hearing - 1/25/2005
SACRAMENTO - At a hearing of the joint legislative audit committee, lawmakers grilled the director of Caltrans about how plans for a new eastern span of the bridge spiraled out of control. Costs for the project, once pegged at under $2 billion, are now estimated at $6 billion...
Shapir, Eiffel Win Tender To Build Calatrava Bridge Project - 1/25/2005
JERUSALEM - Shapir Engineering and the French steelworks company Eiffel have won the tender to construct the bridge at Jerusalem's entrance, which is designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The project is estimated to cost NIS 129 million, far higher than the original NIS 80 million forecast....
UTPB Plans Da Vinci Bridge - 1/25/2005
TEXAS - The university, which recently completed a replica of England’s Stonehenge, has plans to create a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge....
Want To Own A Bridge? You're In Luck - 1/25/2005
CHARLOTTE - Free to a good home: a historic north Iredell bridge. No-cost shipping. Suitable for walking on and biking over. New owner must promise to maintain it....
Far South Sarpy Site More Likely For Bridge - 1/25/2005
NEBRASKA - The co-chairman of the Southwest Iowa Coalition's Transportation Committee is fairly certain that a bridge connecting Interstate 29 in Iowa and U.S. Highway 75 in Nebraska will be built near the Interstate's Glenwood exit....
Destiny Church Vows To Defy Bridge March Ban - 1/25/2005
AUCKLAND - Destiny Church last night vowed its "Defend the Legacy" march, expected to draw 20,000 followers, would cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge despite its application being declined by police and Transit New Zealand....
Ndola's Munkulungwe Bridge Gives In To Heavy Downpour - 1/25/2005
AFRICA - THE Munkulungwe bridge in Ndola rural is on the verge of collapsing following a heavy downpour. A check by the Times yesterday showed that part of the concrete bridge had given in and could collapse any time....
Thieves Stealing Bridge Railings - 1/25/2005
OREGON - "We think they take it to a recycling facility, disguising it by running over it with heavy machinery or something, and then they receive a per-pound rate," Deckman said. "We suspect it's related to drugs."...
Bridge
'Congestion Pricing' Unpopular - 1/18/2005
OAKLAND - If the Bay Area winds up paying higher tolls to cover overruns on the new Bay Bridge, motorists want to see a $1 boost for everyone, as opposed to a $2 spike for rush-hour commuters, according to a new poll released Thursday....
County Debates History, Safety To Decide Fate Of Aging Bridge - 1/18/2005
MONMOUTH - Monmouth County engineers and historic preservationists are at odds over the fate of the Glimmer Glass Bridge, a century-old, wooden-framed drawbridge that operates using rolling counterweights....
Reform Sought In How State Faces Transportation Issues - 1/18/2005
SEATTLE - Most say that to pay for huge projects, such as replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct and the 520 bridge and relieving Interstate 405 congestion, money will have to be raised both statewide and regionally. Now the challenge is to decide how to raise and handle regional money....
4 Bridge Projects In The Works - 1/18/2005
MONMOUTH - As county and state proposals move forward for four bridges, business owners and politicians in the Bayshore are hoping for a smooth transition between the Monmouth County Engineering Department and the state Department of Transportation on the projects....
Lawmakers Call Disaster Response To Mudslides A Model For Bay Bridge Mess - 1/18/2005
SACRAMENTO - Bay Area legislators said the state's response to the deadly mudslide that hit the coastal hamlet of La Conchita bolsters their case for having Sacramento pick up most of the tab for the new Bay Bridge....
Interstate 5 Bridge: The Ups And Downs - 1/18/2005
WASHINGTON - Thousands of times since the bridge's first half was built in 1917, the twin 263-foot-long lift spans have been raised and lowered with a simple system involving steel cables attached to dr
