State Shows Plans For Roadway, Bridge - 6/29/2004
NEW ORLEANS - State transportation officials will present final plans for the $135 million Florida Avenue bridge and roadway Wednesday during the last public meeting before the project is submitted to the U.S. Coast Guard for permits....

Nmsu Hopes To Stop Bridges From Cracking - 6/29/2004
NEW MEXICO - The project began after cracking was discovered in several bridge decks -- the surface cars drive on -- during construction in 2001 of the Big I, the interchange of Interstates 25 and 40 in Albuquerque. Eighteen of the 25 new bridge decks showed cracks, he said....

Expressway Collapse Could Cost $9 Million - 6/29/2004
TAMPA - Early estimates show the pier collapse that damaged three bridge segments on the new elevated lanes of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway will cost close to $9 million and delay the project's completion for two months....

Bridge Collapses, 12 Missing - 6/29/2004
BOGOTA - A bridge in northeastern Colombia collapsed on Monday under the onslaught of a swollen river, killing two people and leaving another 12 missing, International Red Cross officials said....

Drivers Furious As Bridge Shuts Again - 6/29/2004
UK - Renfrewshire Council bosses say this latest closure is necessary to allow the final phase of their four-year, £1million structural strengthening and refurbishment programme to be completed....

710 'connector Road' Greeted With Skepticism - 6/29/2004
CALIFORNIA - Construction could commence in 2006 and be complete in 2007, Robert said. A new bridge would be built for the Union Pacific railroad tracks that parallel Mission Road and Alhambra Avenue and the connector road would run under the tracks....

Bridge In Danger Of Collapsing: Blaik - 6/29/2004
FIJI - A BRIDGE that is supported by a water pipe could collapse if no repairs are made to the water leak from the pipe....

Danger Road Will Be Closed For Four Weeks - 6/29/2004
UK - Derby City Council issued an emergency closure notice on Wednesday for Victoria Street and Albert Street because movement had been detected in a 300-year-old bridge underneath the road and engineers feared that the bridge and the road could collapse....

Unsafe Bridge To Get Emergency Repair - 6/29/2004
KICKAPOO - City officials first became aware of the about 5-inch wide crack underneath the three-cell reinforced concrete bridge on Kickapoo on June 2....

Bill's One Tank Trip: Royal Gorge Bridge - 6/29/2004
DENVER - Go there for the view from the 75-year-old bridge that spans the gorge to the Arkansas River more than 1,000 feet below....

Maroon Creek Bridge Off Back Burner - 6/29/2004
COLORADO - An Aspen official sat down with state and federal highway representatives this week to initiate the latest round of discussions on replacing the Maroon Creek bridge....

Builders To Remove Section Of Bridge - 6/29/2004
FLORIDA - The 40-foot roadway will be removed after contractors find more than three dozen cracks on the Memorial Causeway's south end....

Fdot To Hold Workshop On Bridge - 6/29/2004
FLORIDA - The bridge to Key Royale, which connects the country club community to the rest of Anna Maria Island, is about 30 years old and may need to be replaced....

Safety Issues Close Route 5 Bridge - 6/29/2004
VIRGINIA - VDOT closed the bridge Feb. 25 after a dive team installing underwater power lines noticed a dangerous amount of erosion around a bridge post. Officials said at the time they were concerned that the bridge might not be stable enough to hold traffic....

Three Maxwell Bridge Workers File Suit - 6/24/2004
NAPA - The complaint filed in Sacramento Superior Court alleges that C.C. Myers, Inc. is responsible for the Dec. 3 collapse on the span that will replace the Maxwell Bridge. The collapse of falsework, or a temporary structure used to support the bridge as concrete is poured, caused tons of material to drop 30 feet, injuring six construction workers and killing worker Richard "Chris" Stevens, 20, of Lodi....

Builder Wants To Fix Bridge, Not Rebuild - 6/24/2004
FLORIDA - The contractor on the new Memorial Causeway bridge said Thursday that it is willing to replace four cracked columns but that it will cost $25-million and take two more years....

Italy's Bridge Over Troubled Water - 6/24/2004
ITALY - The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi loves big infrastructure....

Fdot Needs Time To Study Plans To Repair Bridge - 6/24/2004
FLORIDA - The Florida Department of Transportation says it needs more time to study PCL Civil Constructors options for fixing the new Memorial Causeway Bridge. PCL says it’s pursuing two options at the same time....

Crane May Resume I-280 Bridge Work - 6/24/2004
TOLEDO - The 2-million-pound horizontal yellow crane is one of two that had been in use to assemble the $220 million bridge's East Toledo approach spans when its companion collapsed Feb. 16, killing four workers and injuring four others. A federal investigation of that accident continues....

Police Strengthen Patrol On Han River Bridges To Prevent Suicides - 6/24/2004
SOUTH KOREA - It is an embarrassing incident for the police, said a police officer of Yongsan Police Station. Measures to prevent suicides should have been introduced much earlier. An increasing number of citizens are coming to the bridges to end their lives to escape financial and other difficulties...

Contractors Hang Hopes On Bridge Rebid - 6/24/2004
OAKLAND - The stalled next phase of the rebuilding of the span connecting the East Bay with Treasure Island has been a bridge too far for even the giant construction companies. But firms are betting it will be rebid, giving them another crack at the project...

Law Boosts Building Costs; Firms Liable Whenever Worker Injured In Fall - 6/24/2004
NEW YORK - Tony Putrelo runs a commercial construction company in Sauquoit. He said he saw his liability-insurance premium go from $137,000 a year to $460,000 after a worker was awarded $75,000 for a fall that Putrelo claims was the worker's fault....

State To Seek Bids On Designs For New Bridges - 6/24/2004
KENTUCKY - Kentucky and Indiana will begin soliciting bids this summer to design two new Ohio River bridges in Jefferson County, with the winners to be announced this fall, executives of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said yesterday....

Independent Investigations - 6/24/2004
CHINA - The team investigating the bridge collapse in Northeast China's Liaoning Province concluded it may have been "an accident without casualties."...

Bridge Rusts Amid Debate Over Color - 6/24/2004
CINCINNATI - Covington Mayor Butch Callery says it's time to end the years-old debate over what color to repaint the Roebling Suspension Bridge. He just wants to see the historic span get a fresh coat....

Investigation: Some Northeast Ohio Bridges Potentially Dangerous - 6/24/2004
OHIO - According to the latest statistics from the Ohio Department of Transportation, 100 of Cuyahoga, Geauga, and Lake counties' 890 bridges are considered substandard and in need of repair....

Public Input Sought On Bridge Replacement - 6/24/2004
NEW JERSEY - The Monmouth County Engineering Department is holding the meetings in cooperation with the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, the state Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to discuss replacement alternatives for the span, also designated as CR 10, West Front Street Bridge, S-17....

Drive An Suv? It's Ok To Use Sellwood - 6/24/2004
OREGON - The new limits should not scare motorists in passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and small trucks, said Ian Cannon, the county's engineering services manager...

Bnd Chose To Bypass Local Mexican Officials On Port Bridge Project, Records Show - 6/24/2004
TEXAS - Brownsville Navigation District officials and their U.S. and Mexican consultants in May 2000 elected to bypass Matamoros and Tamaulipas officials in seeking Mexico’s approval of a proposed rail/truck bridge project, records show....

County Bridges To Be Improved - 6/24/2004
PLATTE COUNTY - Two of Platte County’s aging bridges took a step toward modernization last week when the County Commission approved $54,975 for engineering work....

Yr After Collapse, Bridge For Future - 6/24/2004
INDIA - Fifteen-year-old Imtiyaz Shaikh is still to wipe off horrific memories of that Black Thursday. He was among the few lucky children of Nani Daman and Moti Daman who survived the collapse of 150-year-old bridge on Damanganga river, that left 29 dead last year....

Batavia Council Picks Post-tensioned Bridge - 6/24/2004
BATAVIA - I'm more enthusiastic about the post-tensioned, solid-bottom, two-pier bridge than the quick and dirty stringer," Alderman Jim Volk said at Wednesday's Community Development Committee meeting. "I like this idea."...

300 Protest Planned Demolition Of Historic Bridge - 6/24/2004
HALIFAX - About 300 citizens of Halifax and Charlotte counties gathered Sunday to protest the impending demolition of historic Clarkton Bridge....

Stumping For Open Source - 6/16/2004
OLYMPIA - Richard Brice and Richard Pickings develop open source software used in the design of highway bridge structures. In 1999, they founded the Alternate Route Project to serve as a focal point for their development efforts and to promote open source software in government....

Completion Of The Katima Mulilo Bridge: Going Beyond Empty Politicking - 6/16/2004
AFRICA - GOOD political relationship between neighbouring countries is one of the recipes for development of shared infrastructure like roads and bridges....

Most On Point Marion Council Support Redesigned Bridge Plan - 6/16/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - As the state Department of Transportation continues to iron out plans for a new Point Marion Bridge, a majority on the borough council supports a plan that would move the span south of the existing bridge, instead of an original proposal that would move it to the heart of the downtown...

Crumbling Demonbreun Street Bridge To Be Replaced - 6/16/2004
TENNESSEE - The Metro government is planning to tear down the decaying bridge and build a new one. Exactly when that will happen is unclear, but city officials have begun the application for federal road funds....

Ucsd Tests New Bridge Construction Method - 6/16/2004
SAN DIEGO - At UCSD, engineers are testing a design technique called pre-cast construction, which has been used in Europe and other parts of the United States....

Survivor Recounts Experience In Escaping Ne China Bridge Collapse - 6/16/2004
CHINA - To truck driver Kan Jianyong, a native of Dawa County in Panjin City of northeast China's Liaoning Province, this Thursday, when he survived a major bridge collapse,was a day of sheer luck....

Mdot To Keep Eight Mile Bridge - 6/16/2004
DETROIT - The Michigan Department of Transportation announced Wednesday afternoon that the tri-level bridge, which carries an estimated 50,000 vehicles a day over Eight Mile on the city/suburban border, won’t be razed, as some had suggested. But it will be repaired and improved with a number of upgrades, such as lighting, landscaping, railings and decorative crosswalks....

Bridge Collapse Drops Cars In River - 6/16/2004
CHINA - A 20-metre span of the Tianzhuangtai Bridge, a two-lane bridge built in 1976 on the 305 national road in Panjin city, collapsed about 7am (0900 AEST), the Xinhua news agency said....

Landmarks Smaller Than A Pinhead - 6/16/2004
UK - Scientists & engineers based at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne specialising in miniaturisation technology have recreated North East England's Tyne Bridge and the Angel of the North sculpture so they are smaller than a pinhead and invisible to the naked eye....

Bids For $2 Million Project Opened - 6/16/2004
MUNCIE - Bids were opened this week for engineering work on the High Street bridge rehabilitation project....

Cost Overruns Hit Shanghai Bridge Project - 6/8/2004
BEIJING - Contractors building a bridge linking Shanghai to a nearby deepwater port said Tuesday the project faced cost overruns of more than $350 million....

Nominate England's Greatest Icon - 6/8/2004
UK - What would you like to see celebrated as the greatest icon in England today - Hadrian's Wall, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, or an early example of multiculturalism, the cup of tea?...

Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Suit Dismissed - 6/8/2004
SAN FRANCISCO - Renee Milligan, the mother of Santa Rosa High School sophomore Marissa Imrie, had claimed the Golden Gate Bridge District created a "dangerous condition" by failing to erect a suicide barrier....

Clemson Students Disqualified From Bridge-building Competition - 6/8/2004
CLEMSON, SC - "We felt like we were cheated," said Josh Stamm, who had a major role in designing the bridge. "The word 'innovative' was in the rules, not serviceability. We were given a hypothetical situation and told to solve it, and we did."...

Building King's Dream To Bridge Gap - 6/7/2004
CHINA - Gordon Wu is happy to leave the management of his multi-billion dollar company, Hopewell Holdings, to his son when he retires on reaching the age of 70 toward the end of next year. But he has made his son promise him one thing: to make him chief engineer in charge of the building of the much talked about Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge if Hopewell wins the contract in a future bid....

Golden Gate Bridge Gets Makeover From Inside Out - 6/7/2004
SAN FRANCISCO - Throughout the $392 million earthquake retrofit of the world's most famous bridge, engineers' talk focuses as often on looks as it does on construction methods....

£300m Price Tag Put On Bridge To Beat Gridlock - 6/7/2004
UK - That is the official price tag of constructing a third bridge over the Firth of Forth which would carry both vehicles and trams and could slash the regular mile-long queues that build up during the rush-hour....

Bnd Seeks Attorney To Investigate Bridge Spending - 6/7/2004
TEXAS - An independent investigation will be conducted into the $21.4 million the Brownsville Navigation District spent on a proposed binational bridge that lacks Mexico’s support....

Monumental Attractions Still Draw Tourists, Despite Terrorism - 6/7/2004
WASHINGTON - It may be considered a fat target for terrorists, but the Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest concrete structures in the world, is still a magnet for tourists....

Selectboard Open To New Designs For So. Newfane Bridge - 6/7/2004
VERMONT - The selectboard voted to reaffirm its earlier decision to rebuild the Dover Road Bridge in South Newfane but agreed to remain open to new design proposals....

5-county Transportation Group To Ask Penndot For Millions - 6/7/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - A five-county transportation committee wants the state to allocate money over the next four years for a new bridge over the Lehigh River in Jim Thorpe, a bypass on Route 209 at Marshalls Creek and improvements on Route 61 in Schuylkill County....

Airport Bridge Is 'largest In World' - 6/7/2004
UK - The World's largest air passenger bridge was revealed to travellers from Gatwick Airport on Friday when the £100million construction was lifted into position across the airfield....

State Touts Fort Hamer Bridge - 6/7/2004
FLORIDA - Months into a federally imposed re-evaluation that won't be finished until winter, the state is back to its original position that Fort Hamer is the best option to prevent future local gridlock....

Tollway Corrects Sagging Cal-sag Bridge - 6/7/2004
ILLINOIS - There is a new twist in the job to replace the Tri-State Tollway bridge over the Cal-Sag Channel near Alsip. A design error caused part of the new bridge to "twist" or "sag," pushing the project back almost a year, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority officials said....

Emergency Work On Causeway Span To Start On Friday - 6/7/2004
FLORIDA - All three spans of the Sanibel Causeway are expected to be replaced in the next two years at an estimated cost of $95 million. The span of the bridge being repaired now will cost about $30 million to replace, Wingard said....

$325,000 Fine For Firm's 'shoddiness' - 5/28/2004
AUSTRAILIA - One of Australia's largest construction firms was yesterday fined $325,000 over an incident in which a 40-year-old crane company owner was killed when a bridge girder collapsed during construction of a freeway overpass near Geelong....

Residents Vow To Stop Bridge - 5/28/2004
TORONTO - About 200 residents of a Vaughan subdivision want city council to kill the plan for a Highway 400 overpass they say will bring traffic congestion and noise to their peaceful neighbourhood....

State Cites C.c. Myers In Fatal Bridge Collapse - 5/28/2004
SACRAMENTO - C.C. Myers Inc., the Rancho Cordova construction firm, was hit this week with two citations by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health for the collapse last year of a bridge over the Napa River that killed one worker and injured others....

Three Bridges Over I-65 Forwarded For More Study - 5/28/2004
TENNESSEE - Three of four options for bridges across Interstate 65 were endorsed last week by Franklin’s Transportation Advisory Committee....

Indiana Looks To Buy Land For New Bridge At A Bargain - 5/28/2004
INDIANA - The final design for two new Ohio River bridges is at least two years away, but Indiana transportation officials are prepared to make the first offers on land this summer....

Dot Cracks Down - 5/28/2004
FLORIDA - The Florida Department of Transportation reviewed the problems with the new Memorial Causeway bridge in Clearwater and delivered a tough, but appropriate, verdict: The contractor must tear down and rebuild the cracked columns and a footing supporting a portion of the bridge roadbed. It will be the largest forced rebuilding in DOT history....

I-5 Access Study Welcome: Bridge Replacement Offers Opportunity - 5/28/2004
OREGON - The unexpected urgency of the need to replace the Interstate 5 bridge over the Willamette River brings an unexpected opportunity. It may be possible to improve the awkward interchange between Franklin Boulevard and the freeway at the same time a new bridge is installed....

County Transportation Funding Report Issued - 5/28/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - A preliminary report outlining which of Chester County’s transportation projects will receive federal and state funding over the next four years includes improvements -- or plans for improvements -- to several of the county’s most-traveled highways and dozens of its bridges....

China Welcomes More World Advanced Transport Technologies - 5/28/2004
CHINA - China welcomes more world advanced transport technologies to be used in its mass transportation construction in the next two decades, which will be the largest-scale even in the world, a senior Chinese transport expert said here Thursday....

Engineer Raises Monorail Concerns - 5/28/2004
SEATTLE - Seattle's new monorail line may be impossible to expand, create choke points and lock the city into buying only one kind of train, a prominent engineer said yesterday....

Officials Audit Benicia Bridge Finances - 5/28/2004
OAKLAND - Bay Area transportation leaders took strict oversight steps Wednesday to corral massive cost overruns on the new Benicia bridge....

Faulty Design Caused Bridge Collapse - 5/28/2004
INDIA - January 1, 2004, was a fateful day for the Central Railway. For the first time in the history of the railways, a foot overbridge collapsed at Dombivli railway station, while under construction....

Mystery Over The Paris Airport Collapse - 5/28/2004
PARIS - Structural engineers are baffled by what might have caused the roof collapse at Paris' Charles de Gaulle-Roissy airport, which killed four people....

I-40 Bridge Collapse Lawsuit Settled - 5/28/2004
OKLAHOMA CITY - The state of Oklahoma has reached a settlement in the case of the Interstate 40 bridge collapse....

Problems Forced Quick Fix On Bridge - 5/28/2004
COLORADO - With rush hour fast approaching after a night of errors and delays, workers putting up a girder over Interstate 70 last week improvised a plan to brace it temporarily and finish the job later. Later never came....

Workers Had No Time In Bridge Collapse - 5/28/2004
COLORADO - The collapsing girder that killed a family of three last weekend had been temporarily braced because workers ran out of time to finish the job, federal investigators said Wednesday....

City Hopes To Shed Light On Historic Bridge - 5/28/2004
NORWALK - Agency commissioners are set to vote on whether to hire Cambridge-based lighting design firm Berg-Howland Associates to create an engineering plan to bathe the bridge's huge nuts and bolts in light....

Causes Behind Girder Collapse Still Unknown - 5/18/2004
COLORADO - When a 40-ton steel girder collapsed from the C-470 bridge onto Interstate 70 near Golden Saturday morning, killing a local family of three, it was more than just a tragedy for Colorado residents and officials - it was the launching point of a host of engineering questions. Preliminary information revealed Monday at a meeting of state, local and federal officials indicates the accident might also have been the result of a fatal miscommunication....

Crusade Against Bridge: Resident Battles Bureaucrats - 5/18/2004
TEXAS - A Missouri City woman has embarked on a campaign to get a pedestrian bridge in her neighborhood closed, as she believes the bridge is unsafe and unlawful...

Recycled Materials Make 100-year 'long Life' Bridges Possible - 5/18/2004
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - Penn State engineers have designed 10 concrete mixtures containing industrial by-products that make it possible for concrete bridge decks to last three times longer, or 75 to 100 years....

$6 Million Paint Job For Bridge - 5/18/2004
KENTUCKY - The Roebling bridge, one of the best bridges in Kentucky, is rotting away, while people argue about colors of it....

Bangladeshi Pm Opens New Bridge - 5/18/2004
BANGLADESH - The Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, has opened the country's second longest road bridge over the River Padma providing a vital transport link....

Officials: Call Preceded Bridge Collapse - 5/18/2004
COLORADO - A driver called 911 and warned authorities that something ``doesn't look right'' an hour before a 40-ton girder dropped from a freeway overpass and killed three people, but a crew failed to examine the beam because of a miscommunication, officials said Monday....

New Span Getting Costlier By The Minute Bay Bridge Project Is A Budget-buster - 5/18/2004
OAKLAND - State highway officials are nervously bracing for more bad bridge news -- about a half-billion dollars' worth....

Colorado Bridge Collapse - 5/18/2004
COLORADO - The 100-foot-long girder sagged across three lanes of Interstate 70, shearing off the top of an SUV that was carrying a man, a woman and a young girl, said State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins....

State: 4 Cracked Columns Must Go - 5/18/2004
FLORIDA - The DOT says the builder of the Memorial Causeway bridge can't simply mend defective support columns. Replacing them could add millions to the cost....

Bnd Officials Unable To Explain $2 Million Discrepancy - 5/18/2004
TEXAS - Brownsville Navigation District officials were unable Friday to account for a $2 million difference in two supplemental agreements approved the same day for the same work....

Bridge Collapse Kills Three In Colo. - 5/18/2004
COLORADO - A steel girder fell from an overpass into morning freeway traffic outside Denver on Saturday, crushing one car and killing three people....

Lta Starts Removing Rubble From Nicoll Highway Collapse Site - 5/18/2004
SINGAPORE - The Land Transport Authority has begun removing mangled steel and debris from the Nicoll Highway cave-in site....

Cnr Charged One Year After B.c. Bridge Collapse - 5/18/2004
OTTAWA - Canadian National Railway Co. faces federal charges a year after two employees died when a wooden trestle collapsed and the front of a freight train plunged into a ravine near McBride, B.C....

Hk To Build World Longest Cable-stay Bridge - 5/12/2004
HONG KONG - Hong Kong is to build the world longest cable-stay bridge -- the Stonecutters Bridge (SCB) as partof its Route 8 and the bridge building project contract was signed Tuesday....

County Investigates Collapse Of Carey Lane Bridge - 5/12/2004
MOUNT VERNON - The bridge was last inspected in February and was again rated at a 28-ton load capacity. The bridge collapsed under Dave Hawk’s agricultural sprayer Sunday afternoon. The weight of Hawk’s equipment was about nine tons....

Talk Turns To Saving Bay's Oldest Bridge - 5/12/2004
CALIFORNIA - As all eyes shift to the sleek new Carquinez suspension bridge between Crockett and Vallejo, the state quietly prepares to press the original 77-year-old span into service for the very last time -- unless preservationists get their way and save the historic structure as a living museum piece....

Shelby Township Supports Pedestrian Bridge Projects - 5/12/2004
MICHIGAN - A safer route across M-53 for walkers and bikers could happen as soon as 2006 after Shelby Township officials last week agreed to spend up to $750,000 as their share of the cost to build two pedestrian bridges across the freeway....

Ironworkers Reunite For Golden Anniversary Of Bridge Groundbreaking - 5/12/2004
MICHIGAN - Even as dignitaries broke ground May 7, 1954, skeptics considered the project farfetched: a bridge across the 5-mile-long, windswept waters separating Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas. But on Friday, a crowd of retired laborers and officials who proved the doubters wrong joyfully celebrated the golden anniversary of the start of construction on the Mackinac Bridge....

Tiptoe Through The Treetops - 5/12/2004
VANCOUVER - Get a squirrel's-eye view from B.C.'s new forest walkway...

The Brooklyn Bridge: Spanning The Skyline - 5/12/2004
NEW YORK - Take a rest on the black stone bleachers, close your eyes and listen to the East River lap the riprap. Then check out the view of that majestic bridge bisecting the skyline of Lower Manhattan. It's a doozy....

Engineering Award For New Bridge - 5/12/2004
UK - The Arlesey Bridge Project, which saw a new five-span viaduct built over the East Coast main railway line, has won the Merit Award 2003 from the Institute of Civil Engineers....

Citizen Pick Is Wrong On Railings For Bridge - 5/12/2004
NORTH DAKOTA - It's nice that the state Department of Transportation is checking in with citizens on the look of the new Liberty Memorial Bridge between Bismarck and Mandan. But it shouldn't feel bound by the results when they run contrary to common sense, as with the see-through railings....

Two Of Three Bridge Collapse Lawsuits Dismissed - 5/12/2004
HERNANDO - Two wrongful death lawsuits against construction companies who were alleged to be responsible for a bridge collapse over U.S. Highway 51 which killed a 20-year-old Hernando man last October have been dismissed....

Council Votes To Back Campaign For Bridge - 5/12/2004
NEVADA - The City Council agreed Tuesday to support a resolution brought forward by a Mohave County supervisor, that links local cities and counties in pursuing construction of a second Bullhead City/Laughlin bridge over the Colorado River....

City Approves International Bridge Agreement - 5/12/2004
TEXAS - With little fanfare, the city commissioners approved an agreement Tuesday night between the city, county, Mexican, and Union Pacific Railroad officials on the site for the new international bridge for the West Rail Project....

Steel, Concrete And Poetry: The Making Of A Bay Area Landmark - 5/5/2004
SAN FRANCISCO - When the American Experience documentary "Golden Gate Bridge" premieres at 9 p.m. Monday on KQED, Bay Area residents will get a studious look at the most recognizable structure in the West. But they'll also get a tribute to the people who were on the scene in the 1930s -- including several who are still around....

Bridge Plan Calls For $15m - 5/5/2004
CINCINNATI - U.S. Sen. George Voinovich wants $15 million for the Brent Spence Bridge project. If approved, the money would be the largest chunk set aside yet for the replacement of the 40-year-old span that carries Interstates 71 and 75 between Cincinnati and Covington....

Town Searches For Funds To Fix Bridge - 5/5/2004
MASSACHUSETTS - With the bridge on Charles Street beginning to rust, the town will be responsible for finding money to repair it, since it falls below the required size to be within the state highway department's jurisdiction....

There’s More Rail In Our Future - 5/5/2004
PORTLAND - A new Interstate bridge is one of the proposals for improving traffic along Interstate 5 connecting Portland and Vancouver, Wash. One option is a 15-mile light-rail loop from Portland north to Washington and back south to Portland International Airport....

Court Agrees On Liability Limit In Deadly Bridge Collapse - 5/5/2004
DENVER - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to limit the amount of money Oklahoma state government can seek from a Mississippi towboat company involved in a deadly bridge collapse....

Report Into Bridge Collapse Published - 5/5/2004
IRELAND - The Iarnród Éireann inquiry team has concluded that the derailment of a freight train last October was caused by a combination of specific factors, and that it could not have happened to a passenger train....

Western Illinois Counties To Get $3.6 Million For Roads, Bridges - 5/5/2004
ILLINOIS - Marion County Commissioners unanimously adopted a resolution Monday in support of upgrading U.S. 36 to four lanes between Hannibal and Macon....

Japan Likely To Fund P18-b Expressway - 5/5/2004
JAPAN - The Japanese government is set to extend as much as P18 billion worth of loans to help bankroll the proposed extension of the 94.5-kilometer Subic-Clark-Tarlac expressway all the way to Rosario town in La Union....

Major Dig For Roman Bridge - 5/5/2004
UK - A BURIED Roman bridge in Corbridge – thought to have been a spectacular representation of the power of the Empire – will be rescued in a major archeological dig....

As Voting Begins, Consensus On Bridge Still Elusive - 5/5/2004
ONTARIO - Ten of the 13 bridge designs under consideration involve a three-lane companion span; the other three call for a six-lane replacement bridge, although officials said some of the companion designs could be built as replacements. All would be located south, or on the Lake Erie side, of the current bridge....

Separating Quake Fact From Fiction - 5/5/2004
USA - Can mega quakes really happen? Theoretically, yes. Realistically, no:...

Work To Separate Merdeka Bridge From Nicoll Highway Cave-in Completed - 5/5/2004
SIGNAPORE - The Merdeka Bridge has been finally separated from the collapsed stretch of Nicoll Highway, after four days of work. The separation is a precaution measure to protect the bridge from any further soil movements around the site of the cave-in....

U.s. Oils Can Protect Concrete Bridge Tendons During Construction Delays - 5/5/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Schokker and her research team tested 19 anti-corrosion oils, 18 North American products and the European leader. The oils were subjected to three environmental tests and one mechanical test. The goal was to find oils that produce the least detrimental effects on the bond between the tendon and grout in addition to good corrosion inhibiting properties....

Brittle Bridge Faces Repair - 4/28/2004
FLORIDA - It took 55 years, but the ravages of salt water and old age have finally had their way with the A. Max Brewer Causeway bridge....

Bridge Collapses - 4/28/2004
PAWNEE CITY - Three men were treated and released with minor injuries at the Pawnee County Memorial Hospital after a bridge they were working on collapsed three miles west and one-half mile south of Pawnee City on Thursday morning....

Terror Prep: A Booming Field - 4/28/2004
US - there is one new area that looks golden, employment-wise. Terror. Terror management, that is: How to anticipate, prepare for and recover from an attack....

Bridge, Bypass Win State's Favor - 4/28/2004
ILLINOIS - The Longmeadow Parkway bridge project proposed to run over the Fox River and through Carpentersville and Algonquin was the biggest winner as the Illinois Department of Transportation on Thursday revealed its highway improvement spending program for 2004-2005 and its seven-year spending outlook....

Bridge Collapse Causes Traffic Concerns In Shannon Hills - 4/28/2004
ARKANSAS - A bridge collapsed Thursday afternoon causing traffic concerns in Shannon Hills. It happened on Shannon Hills Drive in the heart of the community....

Bridge Builder Deflects Blame - 4/28/2004
FLORIDA - The Canadian contractor building the new Memorial Causeway bridge says the string of problems on the $69-million state project is not its fault....

Nocoll Highway Collapse - 4/28/2004
SINGAPORE - The collapse of a temporary wall in a tunnel area had caused a road section along Nicoll Highway to cave in, leaving three dead and three injured....

Bridge Selection Process Enters The Final Stages - 4/28/2004
BUFFALO - The design for a new Peace Bridge could narrow to three finalists in a couple of weeks, and the winning selection should be made by the end of the summer....

Deadline Looms For Athens Olympic Roof - 4/28/2004
ATHENS - Time is running out for Athens Olympic organisers to set a spectacular dome above the main Games stadium with the deadline for an important part of the work only two days away....

Hikoi Raises Safety Fears For Auckland Harbour Bridge - 4/28/2004
NEW ZEALAND - "We know full well that in terms of normal demand in either direction the bridge will not cope," said Transit New Zealand's regional manager, Wayne McDonald. "The only way we can manage this whole situation is to persuade as many people as possible not to travel over the bridge."...

City Gets Grant To Fix 99 Avenue Overpass - 4/28/2004
FORT SASKATCHEWAN - A six figure boost from the province will fix a bridge plagued by a lengthy history of sustaining countless strikes from high load trucks, and running up big repair bills. The city learned Friday the province will kick in 75 per cent or $340,000 of a $480,000 project to fix the substandard clearance of the 99 Avenue bridge extending over Highway 15....

Warren County Rescinds Order To Reopen Old Mississippi River Bridge - 4/28/2004
MISSISSIPPI - Supervisors acted Monday at the request of the Vicksburg Bridge Commission, which wanted more flexibility as it decides what to do with the span...

Transport Authority Studies Future Of Regional Road Bridge - 4/28/2004
MALTA - The Regional Road bridge, built in 1971 with a life-span of 35 years, is likely to be replaced later this year although it is possible it will be maintained to give it another 10 years or so of life....

Basf: Sandwich Plate System Builds Better Bridges - 4/28/2004
US - BASF has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with the British-Canadian company Intelligent Engineering Ltd. (IE) for further development of the innovative Sandwich Plate System (SPS). The SPS technology, jointly developed by BASF Group company Elastogran and IE, is rapidly becoming established in the shipbuilding industry for the repair and construction of ship segments...

Northern Bypass Could Mend Area - 4/20/2004
BATON ROUGE - Knee-jerk opposition to plans for an interstate bypass in the northern part of East Baton Rouge Parish demonstrates that NIMBYism -- i.e., "not in my back yard" -- is a racially diverse response to change....

That Sinking Feeling Unlikely In A High-rise - 4/20/2004
FLORIDA - It's early morning downtown Tampa. In a high- rise office building, meetings are convening. Coffee is brewing. Every floor is alive, buzzing with activity. Then, a slight tremor. The building sways. Shifts. Begins to slide. A massive hole in the earth opens, dirt and rock and sand spiral downward....

Phobias And What Can Be Done About Them - 4/20/2004
SEATTLE - Gephyrophobia — Fear of bridges. In the San Francisco Bay Area, this fear spiked after the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989....

National Bridge Contest Next Step For Lsu Team That Won Regional - 4/20/2004
LOUISIANA - LSU civil engineering students spent more than a thousand hours designing and building a bridge that bolts together in five minutes and supports 2,500 pounds....

Crane Operator Injured When Bridge Collapses - 4/20/2004
WASHINGTON - The contractor had driven the crane a third of the way onto the bridge when it gave way....

Abuja-lokoja Road Closed:• As Murtala Muhammed Bridge Collapses, 28 Years After Construction - 4/20/2004
NIGERIA - The Lokoja-Abuja portion was closed because a major part of the road has given way, while all the synthetic fibre cushion between the expansion gaps have been dismantled and fallen into the river....

Market St. Bridge Being Investigated For Structural Problems - 4/20/2004
OTTUMWA - Ottumwa may be the City of Bridges, but the City is investigating whether one of its most important bridges will be able to support its current traffic load....

Industry May Benefit From First Cad Search System - 4/20/2004
SWITZERLAND - Researchers have developed the first system capable of searching a company's huge database of three-dimensional parts created with computer-aided design software. Details about the new parts search system were described in several research papers presented this month in Lausanne, Switzerland....

Cles Traverse Bridge For First Time In Three Years - 4/20/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Members of the Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania - a nationwide organization with 600 members - enjoyed the weekend sunshine as they caravaned to the site and drove across the structure, one vehicle at a time....

Otak Gets Contract For Six Bridge Projects - 4/20/2004
OREGON - Two Southern Oregon counties have selected Portland-based design and engineering firm Otak Inc. to provide preliminary engineering and construction engineering services for six bridges encompassed in the 2003 Oregon Transportation Investment Act. The combined estimated value of the Josephine and Jackson counties projects is more than $10 million....

Highway Collapse Kills Man - 4/20/2004
SIGNAPORE - Excavation on a new subway line caused a section of highway to collapse near Singapore's central business district on Tuesday following an underground explosion, leaving at least one man dead and three workers injured....

Bridge Safety Questioned In Memo - 4/20/2004
CANADA - The province has no way of knowing whether hundreds of municipal bridges across Ontario are safe, says an internal government document....

Bridge Builds Trust Or Trepidation - 4/20/2004
FLORIDA - When the new Memorial Causeway Bridge is finally finished, some motorists might pause a cautious moment before crossing it....

Odot Director Speaks About Bridge Program - 4/20/2004
OREGON - The Oregon Department of Transportation has signed an agreement with Oregon Bridge Delivery Partners to manage the $1.3 billion program to replace 365 state-owned bridges over the next 10 years....

Bridge Awaits A Makeover, Or A Successor - 4/20/2004
NEW YORK - It's an aging bridge, choked by traffic, and state planners agree that the Tappan Zee is badly in need of an extreme makeover, or at least the engineering equivalent of a tummy tuck....

Expressway Should Be `stiff,' Safe, Experts Say - 4/20/2004
FLORDA - It may look like an aircraft carrier balanced precariously on thin concrete beams, but engineers say the highway being erected in the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway's median is even stronger than conventional bridges....

State Criticizes Bridge Builder - 4/20/2004
FLORIDA - State officials are giving poor grades to the construction company that built the John Ringling Causeway bridge, saying PCL Civil Constructors was difficult to work with....

At Site Of Collapse, High-tech Detecting - 4/20/2004
FLORIDA - Engineers are using radar and seismic equipment to search for more problems where a sinkhole ate part of an elevated highway's support pier....

Crews Begin Work On $75 Million Bridge - 4/20/2004
MAINE - Around noon today construction workers will finish a concrete marathon, 30-hours of non-stop pouring to create a foundation strong enough to support a 42-story tower...

Shifting Halts Boat Traffic Under Bridge - 4/20/2004
FLORIDA - Engineers saw the new Memorial Causeway bridge "see saw" in high winds, officials say....

Relieved Road Officials Focus On Fixes - 4/20/2004
FLORIDA - As commuters maneuvered around the collapsed portion of the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway project Wednesday, expressway officials looked on the bright side...

I-66 Supporters Waiting On Federal Bill - 4/13/2004
MISSOURI - Cape Girardeau civic leaders and Illinois Department of Transportation officials say a new federal highway bill being worked out now could map out an Interstate 66 route that would carry traffic through Southern Illinois and over the new Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge at Cape Girardeau. But so far there is no route-specific language in the bill taking shape in Washington....

Memorial Bridge Foundation Sound, Despite Appearance - 4/13/2004
MARYLAND - Although engineers admit it "looks terrible," the foundation under Memorial Bridge leading into Keyser from Maryland is structurally sound....

New Cpd Effort Looks To Keep Town Bridges Safe For Travel - 4/13/2004
CONCORD - "Essentially, people pay no attention to the truck route," he said. "[The bridge] is just too tempting for truck drivers."...

Company Fined Over Death - 4/13/2004
UK - Married father-of-four David Oxley (35) died in the horrific accident when the steel gantry was prematurely blown down by winds as he walked underneath, Grimsby Crown Court heard yesterday. He had been working to prepare the pipe bridge for demolition by weakening it....

Oregon Signs Deal To Map Bridge Fixes - 4/13/2004
OREGON - During the first phase, the group will be responsible for developing an overall program management plan. The group will also manage the repair of about 74 bridges totaling about $250 million. The spans are on U.S. Highways 92 and 26 and Interstate 5....

Building Bridges, Not Confidence - 4/13/2004
ST PETERSBURG - Will motorists who someday drive the new Memorial Causeway Bridge in Clearwater be able to feel secure in the safety and reliability of that span?...

City Engineer Updates Council On Quest For Second Bridge - 4/13/2004
NEVADA - "Funding from the federal government, $500,000, was received to fund the environmental assessment study," Agrawal said. "The additional cost would be split equally between Clark County and Bullhead City."...

Board Mulls Contradictory Findings - 4/13/2004
IDAHO - The Save the Wagon Wheel Bridge Committee presented an engineer's finding concerning the safety of the bridge to the Dallas County Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning....

Tipper Trailer Smashes Into Footbridge - 4/13/2004
UK - POLICE, firefighters and engineers were called to a freak accident in which a haulage trailer jammed underneath a pedestrian bridge....

Dispute Stalls I-20 Overpass - 4/13/2004
GEORGIA - A proposed bridge spanning Interstate 20 that could relieve traffic congestion along Dogwood Drive has stalled because of disagreements between Rockdale County and the city of Conyers....

Fixing Bridge Could Exact A Heavy Toll - 4/13/2004
FLORIDA - Rebuilding damaged sections of the new Memorial Causeway Bridge would cost at least $2.9-million and could take nine months, according to estimates from the state Department of Transportation...

Motorists Stranded On Onitsha Bridge - 4/13/2004
AFRICA - COMMUTERS and motorists plying the ever-busy Niger River bridge-Upper Iweka road in the commercial town of Onitsha, went through harrowing experience between Tuesday and Wednesday as they got stuck on the bridge due to the on-going rehabilitation of the road....

Bridge Report Sounds Alarm - 4/13/2004
SOUTH CAROLINA - Balfour Beatty workers dozing on the job was one of several instances of questionable work recorded by an independent engineering firm hired to keep tabs on the $105 million widening project, according to inspection records. Reports also included instances of workers' ignoring safety and construction concerns....

Cleveland Bridge Quality Questioned - 4/13/2004
OHIO - State and county inspectors are accompanying Cleveland bridge inspectors on the job after they discovered that the city overrated the structural quality of some bridges....

Sadness Rises As Time Nears For Razing Camelback Bridge - 4/13/2004
MICHIGAN - Members of a group that formed four years ago to preserve Cascade Township's Camelback Bridge say they will watch with disappointment this summer as demolition crews take down what to them is a piece of history...

Budget Stops Bridge Work - 4/13/2004
AUSTRALIA - A THREE-YEAR delay in the State Government's timber bridge program announced in the mini-budget last week was a huge blow to Kempsey Shire Council's hopes for funding to fix timber bridges....

Engineering Marvel Celebrates 40 Years Of Making Travel Easier - 4/13/2004
VIRGINIA - It was April 15, 1964, the grand opening of the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel, the 17.6-mile crossing over the lower bay that connects the rural Eastern Shore peninsula to Virginia Beach and shortens travel time down the East Coast. It is considered the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex....

Bridge Decisions Made - 4/13/2004
ONTONAGON - The Ontonagon Village Council made some new M-64 bridge decisions Monday to enable the Department of Transportation to complete its plans for the bridge over the Ontonagon River....

County Commissioners Approve Bridge Resolution - 4/13/2004
OKLAHOMA - Richards said the 90-foot bridge along EW 124 is the first to be funded and built by the Absentee Tribe. Total cost of the project is about $585,000, officials said....

I-40 Bridge Collapse Impostor Loses Appeal - 4/13/2004
OKLAHOMA - Man Who Posed As Army Captain At Scene Of Collapse Denied Sentence Reduction...

30 Bridges Collapse In Zambia After Rains - 4/13/2004
ZAMBIA - A Zambian minister on Tuesday said 30 bridges had collapsed across the country in the past three months because of torrential rains, killing at least 10 people and injuring several others....

Collapse Of Beams May Slow I-275 Job - 4/7/2004
ST PETERSBURG - Seven concrete beams weighing 87 tons each fell like giant dominoes Thursday from the supports of a ramp under construction over Interstate 275....

Mussel May Stall Bridge Work State Wants To Find Out If Bivalve Lives Near Rt. 611 Span In Easton. - 4/7/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - PennDOT was set to begin designing the bridge this spring, in preparation for construction in 2006, when the state Fish and Boat Commission put the brakes on the project to determine whether the mussel lives in the Bushkill Creek or Delaware River, near the bridge. The Bushkill dumps into the Delaware in Easton, and lampmussels are known to be in the Delaware...

Port Expends Millions For Bridge Project - 4/7/2004
TEXAS - The Port of Brownsville has spent $21.4 million in pre-construction efforts for a proposed bridge to Mexico that neither the city of Matamoros nor the state of Tamaulipas supports, The Herald found....

Interstate Bridge Collapses Near Pecos - 4/7/2004
TEXAS - Texas Department of Transportation officials said heavy rains appeared to be the suspect in a bridge collapse on Interstate 20....

Panhandle Barge Vs. Bridge Experiments Aim To Increase Safety - 4/7/2004
FLORIDA - It sounds like the beginnings of a tragedy. But that’s just what the massive experiments that began last week in Apalachicola Bay in Florida’s Panhandle are designed to prevent. Headed by University of Florida engineers and sponsored by the Florida Department of Transportation, the experiments – which will involve at least a dozen planned barge vs. bridge rammings this month – are aimed at reducing the cost of bridge construction while making them safer....

Bridge To Cost More - 4/7/2004
ARIZONA - The $645,000 estimate is above and beyond an estimated $151,000 the county has already spent to remove unusable portions of the fallen bridge, labor and other equipment costs...

Damage To Historic Bridge Declared Emergency - 4/7/2004
LAWRENCE COUNTY - Lawrence County commissioners declare damage to covered bridge in McConnell's Mill state park an emergency. Engineer is authorized to seek proposals for restoration work....

Half-finished, Full Payment - 4/7/2004
INDIA - A good number of big bridges and culverts constructed in Gournadi and Agailjhara in the district at huge costs can not be used for sheer negligence in their construction....

Shifting Beams On Bridge Cause Massive Tie-up - 4/7/2004
NEW YORK - Workers were raising the entire bridge structure for a future project to rehabilitate 490 when the beams shifted, said Lori Maher, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation. No one was injured and engineers do not suspect any structural damage...

Builder May Have To Start Over - 4/7/2004
ST PETERSBURG - A plan to fix cracks in the bridge is not good enough, a state DOT official says: "We're preserving our right to tell them to tear it down."...

Neighbors Oppose Uc’s Latest Foothill Bridge Plan - 4/7/2004
CALIFORNIA - After 16 years, four aborted attempts to win city approval and $600,000 lost, the design of UC Berkeley’s proposed Foothill Bridge across Hearst Avenue has changed dramatically—but not the opposition from neighbors....

Thu Thiem Bridge Project Approved - 4/7/2004
VIETNAM - The Government has approved a 890 billion VND project to develop a bridge spanning the Saigon River to link Ho Chi Minh City's centre with Thu Thiem peninsula....

Pelosi Secures $120 Million For San Francisco Bay Area Transportation Projects - 4/7/2004
CALIFORNIA - The legislation brings us a step closer to funding essential upgrades of our transportation infrastructure to provide for our current and future transit needs," Pelosi said....

Virginia Transportation Agency Seeks Million To Upgrade Norfolk-area Tunnels - 4/7/2004
NORFOLK - The Virginia Department of Transportation said Thursday that it wants to spend $29.8 million at its Hampton Roads tunnels to replace aging fire fighting equipment and bring other tunnel safety systems up to modern standards....

$7m For Bridge A Drop In Bucket - 4/7/2004
CINCINNATI - The bridge money is one of several local projects included in the $275 billion six-year transportation bill....

Bridge Retrofit Funds Advance - 4/7/2004
CALIFORNIA - The Golden Gate Bridge is in line to receive $70 million from Congress to help pay for its costly seismic retrofit project....

S.c. 802 Proposal Falls Flat - 4/7/2004
BEAUFORT - Members of a Beaufort County commission say some of the road projects that area officials want paid for by a proposed 1 cent local sales tax are only temporary answers to long-term traffic problems....

Folsom Bridge Bill Is Rejected - 3/31/2004
CALIFORNIA - The Senate Transportation Committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would have compelled state agencies to accelerate the construction process for a new $66 million bridge below Folsom Dam....

Corners Won't Be Cut In Bridge Replacement - 3/30/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Plans to replace the Masontown Bridge won't be impacted by the state Department of Transportation's recent efforts to slash costs, the project's engineer said Monday....

Odot To Open Bids For Blaine Bridge Work - 3/30/2004
OHIO - OPENING of bids for work on the Blaine Bridge is planned in May by the Ohio Department of Transportation, and it's one of the many upcoming projects in Belmont County, according to Belmont County Engineer Fred F. Bennett....

Incident Recalls Mianus Bridge Collapse - 3/30/2004
GREENWICH - Within minutes of Thursday night's fiery tanker-truck crash on Interstate 95 in Bridgeport, the incident was already drawing comparisons to the 1983 collapse of the Mianus River Bridge in Greenwich....

Engineers To Install Temporary Bridge On I-95 - 3/30/2004
GREENWICH - After debating two options to temporarily fix the scorched Interstate 95 overpass destroyed in a tanker-truck explosion Thursday night, state engineers are pursuing a plan to install a temporary bridge within the next two weeks....

Bentley To Develop Transxml In Partnership With Cambridge Systematics - 3/30/2004
EXTON, PA. - Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it will join an industry team developing TransXML, a proposed set of standards to allow exchange of transportation data across IT systems and asset lifecycles. Bentley's role in the TransXML project continues the company's commitment to open standards for the exchange of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) data....

De Pere’s Living Bridge Idea Stays Alive - 3/30/2004
WISCONSIN - Had the council approved a proposed option for two two-lane bridges, one span would have been built in the footprint of the existing bridge, killing the Living Bridge. Relieved organizers are turning their attention to the structural integrity of the 70-year-old bridge and looking for an investor to bankroll the project...

Towns May Have To Share Cost Of New Boom Bridge Road Span - 3/30/2004
CONNECTICUT - The town of Westerly may have to share the cost for building a new $600,000 Boom Bridge Road Bridge after a look into its history concluded that North Stonington is not the sole owner of the structure that spans the Connecticut and Rhode Island border, First Selectman Nicholas H. Mullane II says....

Penndot To Review Request To Widen Route 22 - 3/30/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - The proposed $770 million widening of Route 22 is among 26 highway construction projects the state Department of Transportation said Thursday will be deferred or re-evaluated....

Construction Worker Left Dangling After Bridge Collapse - 3/30/2004
SPRINGFIELD - A construction worker dangled from a safety harness for almost an hour after the bridge he was working on collapsed in Clark County Tuesday morning...

Army Buys Heavy-duty Bridges - 3/30/2004
AUSTRALIA - THE Australian Army will boost its ability to move its equipment, including the new 61-tonne Abrams tanks, by buying 10 new portable bridges....

Crane Hits Bridge, Shuts I-75 South - 3/30/2004
MICHIGAN - Southbound Interstate 75 will be closed from Eight Mile to McNichols (Six Mile) in downtown Detroit at least until this weekend, because a truck carrying a crane smashed into an overpass at Nevada, near Seven Mile, on Tuesday....

Indiana Lagging On Big Four Bridge Plan - 3/30/2004
INDIANA - At least $1.25 million has been pledged for a study to transform the Kentucky side of the bridge into a pathway for pedestrians and bicyclists. A spiraling ramp and an earthen mound would connect the bridge to Louisville's Waterfront Park....

Michaud Secures Major Funding For Maine Transportation Projects - 3/30/2004
MAINE - Congressman Michael Michaud joined fellow members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today in passing a new $275 billion transportation bill that would fund the nation's highway and transit needs through 2010....

No Charges In Portugal Collapse That Killed 59 steel Rods For Bridge Run Low - 3/30/2004
PORTUGAL - A Portuguese judge on Thursday threw out charges over the collapse of a bridge three years ago that killed 59 people in the country's worst road accident....

Span To Be Closed Indefinitely, As Replacement Delayed - 3/30/2004
NEW JERSEY - The Nevius Street bridge over the Raritan River will remain closed indefinitely after engineers discovered rusted pieces of the bridge that reduced the weight it could safely carry to below three tons....

Derailment Spurs Bridge Collapse - 3/30/2004
TOPEKA - The West Grove bridge collapsed after the engine carrying the crew cleared the bridge, said Sgt. Brad Metz of the Shawnee County sheriff's office....

A High-tech Game Of Heavy Lifting - 3/24/2004
CALIFORNIA - It is an incredible sight, a 1 million-pound wedge of concrete highway dangling midair over the inky black Bay waters....

'hanging Bridge' Falls; 2 Men Dead, 18 Injured - 3/24/2004
MANILLA - Two elderly men were killed and 18 others were seriously injured in a bizarre accident after a lightweight 25-foot high "hanging bridge" that the victims were passing through collapsed in Barangay Bacao 1 in Gen. Trias town, Cavite province, over the weekend....

More Costs, Delays Could Hit Benicia Span Project - 3/24/2004
CALIFORNIA - Complications have added at least three years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars to the price tag of the five-lane span that will parallel the existing 1.2-mile, 42-year-old workhorse that carries more than 100,000 vehicles a day between Solano and Contra Costa counties....

Firms Line Up To Build Five Bridges - 3/24/2004
RHODE ISLAND - State officials have opened bid proposals for the Five Bridges project, a signal that the long-delayed repairs will soon be under way....

Bristol Twp. Flap On Bridge Work Roils - 3/24/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Somewhere in the Township Building is a $62,000 bridge-repair bill that hasn't been paid - buried under accusations that the work is substandard, that the contract was improperly awarded, and that the Bucks County District Attorney's Office is investigating the matter....

Experts Examine Steel From Truss Collapse - 3/24/2004
TOLEDO - Cracks found in some of the steel being examined by engineers did not cause the collapse of last month's deadly construction truss collapse, an expert said. A 1,000-ton crane collapsed Feb. 16 while putting together the roadway on a new Interstate 280 bridge. Four workers were killed and four injured....

New Bridge Part Of Strategy To Move Goods - 3/24/2004
CANADA - A high-span crossing to replace the Pitt River swing bridge has graduated from wishful thinking to probable project as part of the Gateway Program....

Free To Good Home: Historic Bridge - 3/24/2004
MICHIGAN - The St. Clair County Road Commission is looking for someone who wants the 1914 truss bridge that crosses the Pine River on Frith Road....

Crumbling Piers Force Partial Closure Of Park Avenue Bridge - 3/24/2004
WATERLOO - One of the four lanes of the Park Avenue bridge over the Cedar River is slated to close after consulting engineers discovered serious scouring problems on the 66-year-old structure's four piers during an inspection last fall....

Brunel´s Iron Bridge Is Found Buried In Brick - 3/6/2004
LONDON, ENGLAND - The first iron bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a lost treasure from one of the towering geniuses of the heroic age of British engineering, has been rediscovered hidden inside a much later bridge in London...

Input Sought On New Bay Bridge - 3/16/2004
PENSACOLA,FL - Officials with Jacobs Inc. have presented four options for the bridge's location and connecting roads. None of them float with city officials and Santa Rosa County Commissioner Buck Lee, who spoke at Monday's City Council meeting...

Decision At Hand For New De Pere Bridge Option - 3/16/2004
GREEN BAY,WI - Years of debate over a new De Pere bridge may come to an end tonight as the City Council is set to choose between one four-lane or two two-lane spans over the Fox River...

Pci Wins Big 18th St. Bridge Contract - 3/16/2004
WATERLOO,IA - Waterloo City Council members voted unanimously Monday to award a $4.45 million contract with Peterson Contractors Inc. of Reinbeck to build the 658-foot long span to replace the failing 81-year-old green overhead truss bridge...

Questions Arise On Impact Of Knik Bridge - 3/14/2004
ANCHORAGE,AK - But with Alaska's latest Knik bridge discussion gaining momentum, those projections are coming under question. Would the economic punch be worth the cost, which has been estimated at anywhere from $400 million to more than $2 billion? Some of the skepticism is coming from an unexpected corner -- the Anchorage business community....

I-69 Public Hearings This Week - 3/14/2004
HENDERSON,KY - That route covers 30.2 miles, including about 12 miles of newly constructed roadway, mostly in Henderson County, and a new Ohio River bridge. The cost is estimated at $652 million....

Rehired Retirees Keep State's Agencies Stable - 3/13/2004
PORTLAND,OR - One-third of the 3,000 state employees who retired last year immediately returned to their jobs temporarily -- usually for six months or less -- to help their agencies cope with the sudden turnover....

Runway In The Sky - 3/13/2004
ATLANTA,GA - It is perhaps the ultimate Atlanta construction project: a massive new runway for the world's busiest airport plunked right on top of one of the world's busiest freeways. Work on the $159 million fifth-runway bridge at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is well under way...

County To Replace, Repair Bridges - 3/13/2004
ALBANY,OR - The Linn County Road Department has been awarded more than $5.7 million in state funds to replace three bridges in the county and repair a fourth. Linn County Roadmaster Darrin Lane said the money is coming from the Oregon Transportation Investment Act of 2003. In June, the state will sell bonds to fund these projects and Lane expects to receive the money soon after....

Mdot Silent On Popp's Bridge - 3/13/2004
BILOXI, MS - The Mississippi Department of Transportation is refusing to go on record in support of federal funding for an improved Popp's Ferry Bridge, even though one of its commissioners in November endorsed the project....

Report Points To Fatal Flaw In Bridge Demolition Plan - 3/12/2004
STRATFORD, CT - A little more than three weeks after a crane operator died while demolishing the old Sikorsky Memorial Bridge, a state police investigator said Thursday authorities suspect a flaw in the demolition plan caused the fatal accident....

No Retreat On Bridge Funds, Say Lawmakers - 3/12/2004
FOLSOM, CA - The Bush administration raised the ire of the Sacramento-area congressional delegation this week when it said it is rethinking how to finance a much-needed bridge over the American River at the base of Folsom Dam, an issue the lawmakers thought they settled last year....

Point Marion Bridge Alignments Reviewed - 3/11/2004
POINT MARION, PA - Two years since the first public meeting to talk about a new bridge to connect the borough to Greene County, residents from both sides of the river learned Wednesday it will be another two years before construction of the new span begins....

Work Begins On New U.s. 2 Bridge - 3/11/2004
HAVRE,MT - Construction began this week on a permanent replacement for the Milk River Bridge between Havre and Chinook on U.S. Highway 2, which collapsed during a traffic accident last year....

Highway 522 Road Work Ahead - 3/10/2004
SEATTLE,WA - Construction is to begin in spring on a new highway interchange at Echo Lake and Fales roads that will ease congestion for the 25,000 cars that travel the route daily....

Tubes Planned For Chesapeake Bay Bridge-tunnel - 3/10/2004
NORFOLK,VA - The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel could get two new tubes for about $860 million, but only if tolls are raised about $2 per vehicle, according to a report released Tuesday by the bridge tunnel commission...

Residents Share Ideas For Bridges - 3/10/2004
VERO BEACH,FL - The estimated $16.3 million construction project for Sebastian River bridges is expected to begin in 2008 and would last between 18 and 24 months...

New Crain Bridge Will Be Longer, Taller, Wider - 3/10/2004
BOLIVAR,MO - Drawings were unveiled Monday for a new concrete bridge to replace the old low-water crossing over the Little Sac River on East 550th Road southwest of Morrisville. The new Crain Bridge will be 20 feet higher than the existing crossing and wide enough to allow two lanes of traffic. Construction is expected to start this summer and should take about six months....

Virginia Firm Seeks Bridge Engineer - 3/10/2004
RICHMOND, VA - ETI has an immediate opening for a Bridge Engineer Bridge/Structural Engineer in Richmond, VA. Currently seeking a Bridge Engineer to assist with the rehabilitation of Virginia bridges. Requirements include VDOT, 5-8 years of related experience, PE, vertical design experience, Autocad, civil and/or environmental engineering degree are all a plus....

Brunel´s Iron Bridge Is Found Buried In Brick - 3/6/2004
LONDON, ENGLAND - The first iron bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a lost treasure from one of the towering geniuses of the heroic age of British engineering, has been rediscovered hidden inside a much later bridge in London...

Officials Unveil Collapse-warning Mechanism - 3/6/2004
HOUSTON, TX - Almost two and half years after tragedy took the lives of eight people on the Queen Isabella Causeway, the Texas Department of Transportation unveiled mechanisms to ensure it never happens again....

State Revisits Bridge Bike Path Idea - 3/5/2004
JAMESTOWN, RI - With the estimated cost of demolishing the Jamestown Bridge increasing, the state Department of Transportation is again looking at what it would cost to turn the span into a bike path....

Civil War-era Bridge Will Be Taken Apart - 3/5/2004
NAPA, CA - Napa's Civil War-era bridge in the path of flood control will be crated and stored at a site on Atlas Peak Road, the City Council said Tuesday. The council rejected last-minute pleas from preservationists who wanted the stone bridge at First Street to be...

County Approves $26,000 Bridge Overhaul - 3/4/2004
COVINGTON, GA - Rather than taking a “wait and see” attitude and potentially endangering local motorists, the Newton County Board of Commissioners (BOC) continued with its pledge to rehabilitate structurally deficient bridges Tuesday night by greenlighting a $26,000 over...

Heavyweight Challenge: Barge Vs. Bridge - 3/4/2004
TAMPA, FL - Florida engineers will conduct the first-ever planned collision between a barge and a bridge, pitting 1,000 tons of metal against thick concrete, at the end of this month....

Commutes Future In Officials Hands - 3/4/2004
OAKLAND, CA - Bay Area commuters will pay $3 to cross bridges this summer, a price voters said unflinchingly was worth paying to improve the region's mass transit....

Time To Detour - 3/4/2004
AMARILLO, TX - For such a big project, many have wondered why the bridge didn't survive longer. Corrosion was the problem, but why the corrosion was so severe isn't clear...

Toll Road Idea Bad For Public, For Businesses - 3/4/2004
GLADSTONE, MO - Toll-booth legislation designed to charge Missourians more than the tax dollars they already pay for state roads emerged Feb. 24 from the Republican-led Senate Transportation Committee....

I-280 North To Open Monday If Crane Cleanup Is Finished - 3/4/2004
EAST TOLEDO, OH - While the Ohio Department of Transportation hopes to reopen northbound I-280 in East Toledo by Monday morning, that still depends on how the weather affects cleanup of the construction crane collapse that closed the freeway Feb. 16, agency officials said ...

Paint Mill Bridge To Be Rebuilt In Autumn - 3/4/2004
ALLENTOWN, PA - After a decade of planning, Bethlehem workers in the fall will begin replacing the Paint Mill Bridge, a narrow span across the Monocacy Creek that has plagued drivers for decades with its sharp turn....

Valley's Future Rides On Road Upgrades - 3/3/2004
NEW KENSINGTON, PA - The summit was held at Fort Crawford Elementary School, where a standing-room-only crowd gathered in an overwhelming show of support for the proposed Alle-Kiski connector bridge and the nine other transportation projects on the coalition's agenda....

Pedestrian Bridge To Cost The City $26,000 More Than Was Expected - 3/3/2004
TENNESSEE VALLEY, TN - Pedestrians can walk over trains rather than worrying about locomotives running over them when a contractor builds a bridge linking Northwest and downtown Decatur this year....

Commissioners Get Bids For Bridge Repair - 3/3/2004
CHAMBERSBURG, PA - Franklin County Commissioners on Tuesday received competitive bids on the repair of three bridges. Two of the bridge projects were bid on twice last year: The county got no bids in September; in October a lone bidder retracted his bid....

Nashville Firms Garner Engineering Excellence Awards - 3/3/2004
NASHVILLE, TN - Neel-Schaffer received the Grand Award for Engineering Excellence from ACEC for its structural systems project...

Thornton Urges Cdot To Fix Crumbling Bridge Over I-25 - 2/25/2004
COLORADO - Thornton city officials say the 128th Avenue bridge over Interstate 25 north of Denver is falling apart and needs to be repaired or replaced....

State Seeks Federal Funds For Waldo-hancock Bridge - 2/25/2004
MAINE - The urgency of having barely 16 months left to get a Route 1 replacement bridge built and carrying traffic across the Prospect Narrows has led the state Department of Transportation to the issuance of a special federally backed bond not previously used in Maine....

Manawatu Flood Costs Soaring - 2/25/2004
NEW ZEALAND - Powerco contractors get started repairing power lines by the shattered Kiwitea Bridge on the northern outskirts of Feilding yesterday....

More Problems Take Toll On Clearwater's Troubled Bridge - 2/25/2004
FLORIDA - For Clearwater, the news was another disappointing setback in a $69.3-million project planned as a city showpiece. Originally set to accept traffic in December 2003, the bridge has seen a string of mishaps. The cracks are the third structural flaw discovered in the past 14 months...

Butler City To File Monroe Bridge Complaint - 2/25/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - On Thursday, city council authorized solicitor James Coulter to file a formal complaint with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, asking it to order the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad to repair or replace the bridge. The railroad has not responded to informal complaints from the city....

Few Complaints About Safety Before Crane Collapse - 2/25/2004
TOLEDO - Ironworkers who have been building an interstate bridge had few complaints about safety at the site, union and state highway officials said a day after a crane collapsed and killed three workers....

Bridge Out Of Nowhere Leads A Town To Its Future - 2/25/2004
CALIFORNIA - The bridge is Mr. Calatrava's first free-standing bridge in the United States. Scheduled to open in April, it is already poised to alter the image of a conservative, decidedly unaffluent community that has struggled with its identity since the decline of the timber industry in the early 1990's....

Fg Saves N355m On Bridge Protection Contracts - 2/25/2004
AFRICA - The Federal Government has announced that it has saved about N355 million through the due process on the N3.3 billion contract awarded earlier to Julius Berger Nigeria Limited for protective works on the Eko, Carter and Third Mainland bridges across the Lagos lagoon....

Cracks Could Shorten Bridge's Life - 2/25/2004
FLORIDA - Experts agree the Clearwater structure probably won't collapse, but they fear it could age prematurely....

Aaa, Dot Differ On Bad Bridge Ratings - 2/25/2004
NORTH CAROLINA - The AAA study included a frightening statistic: Buncombe County has the highest number of substandard bridges in the state. Despite that, division engineer Jay Swain said an explanation of how the DOT and AAA rate bridges can help drivers understand the ratings don't necessarily mean the bridges are unsafe....

Area Firm Is Focus Of Crane Accident - 2/25/2004
ST LOUIS - Fru-Con Construction Corp. of Clarkson Valley is the general contractor on the project, a $220 million bridge over the Maumee River - the single largest transportation project in Ohio history....

No Decision In Bridge Meeting - 2/25/2004
FLORIDA - Lee County commissioners and Sanibel City Council members met for more than five hours Monday but failed to reach a resolution on whether to rebuild the Sanibel Causeway drawbridge or replace it with a new fixed-span structure....

Firm Named To Overhaul Bridges - 2/25/2004
OREGON - Oregon transportation officials Monday picked the engineering group that will mastermind, and be accountable for, the state's $1.3 billion bridge rebuilding project....

Friends Of The Chicago River Announces Project For Landmark Towers On Michigan Avenue Bridge To - 2/25/2004
CHICAGO - One of Chicago's most famous sites - the Michigan Avenue Bridge - will soon become home to one of the city's newest cultural attractions when two of the four towers guarding the bridge and overlooking the skyscraper-surrounded river become the location of the Chicago River Museum and Chicago River Center. Friends of the Chicago River has announced a two-phased project that will transform the southwest tower of the Michigan Avenue Bridge into a river museum and the northeast tower into a river cultural center....

Construction Crane Collapses On Bridge - 2/17/2004
TOLEDO - A construction crane collapsed Monday onto an Interstate 280 bridge over the Maumee River, crushing several vehicles and killing three people, fire officials said....

Bridge Project Likely To Be Delayed For Months - 2/17/2004
OHIO - But all that optimism came crashing to Earth yesterday along with the thousand-ton erection truss crane that collapsed, bringing construction to a standstill....

Manhattan Bridge Significant Step In Bridge Evolution, Says Elizabethtown College Professor's New Book - 2/17/2004
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA - Although forever in the shadow of its famous neighbor the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge represents a significant step in the evolution of bridge-building technology, according to an Elizabethtown College history professor....

Highway Funding A Political Time Bomb - 2/17/2004
WASHINGTON - Republicans who map the agenda at the White House and in Congress are hurtling toward a collision over highway funding. The vehicle is a bill that designates highway and transit spending formulas for six years...

Collapsed Bridge Forces Residents To Take A Longer Route - 2/17/2004
TEXAS - City workers initially closed the Sycamore Creek Bridge in the Travis Country neighborhood of Southwest Austin for 90 days for repairs late last year. Then it unexpectedly collapsed...

Http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20040217/news11/102170163/-1/news - 2/17/2004
INDIA - Heritage lovers are up in arms against the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) following a Standing Committee decision to dismantle the city’s oldest bridge — 128-year-old Hope Bridge over Tapi river....

Three Dead, Five Injured As Crane Collapses Onto Freeway Bridge - 2/17/2004
TOLEDO - The 2 million-pound yellow steel crane was moving but wasn’t lifting any construction materials when it fell about 2:30 p.m. in the space between the northbound and southbound lanes on Interstate 280’s approach to the bridge southeast of the river, said Joe Rutherford, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation....

Dot: Ocean Isle Needs Four-lane Bridge - 2/17/2004
NORTH CAROLINA - The town needs either a second bridge or an expansion of its current bridge to four lanes to accommodate future growth, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation's statewide planning branch....

Bedrock Beneath Bridge Poses Complex Engineering Problem - 2/17/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Like a road to nowhere, Interstate 99's paved advance westward stops abruptly at an unfinished set of bridge piers that would carry the highway over alternate U.S. Route 220 and onward toward Blair County....

is A New Bridge Feasible? - 2/17/2004
DEL RIO - Does Del Rio need a second international bridge? And, if a second bridge is needed, can the city afford to build it?...

Global Experts To Design World's Highest Railway Bridges In India - 2/17/2004
INDIA - Global engineering majors are to help India build the country's highest railway bridges - providing the first rail link to the Kashmir Valley - in one of the most geologically active Himalayan terrains....

Before The Chutes, Hoosic Floods Raged - 2/17/2004
MASSACHUSETTS - On Oct. 4, 1869, in North Adams, after a full day of rain the previous day, mill dams started to collapse, and then bridges, streets and houses were carried away. In all, $100,000 in damage was estimated at the time....

New Bridge Collapses - 2/17/2004
BAGUIO CITY - suspension bridge being built with British assistance and funding to connect Kalinga to the Mountain Province, collapsed Sunday morning even before it could be inaugurated....

A Bridge Over The River Rye - 2/17/2004
CANADA - How can popsicle sticks, glue, toothpicks and dental floss win you a $1,000 and a trip to Montreal? Enter and win Ryersonís 10th Annual Bridge Building Competition....

Temporary Drawbridge Plans Can Be Stopped, State Tells Vineyarders - 2/17/2004
MARTHA'S VINEYARD - MassHighway officials say they will put plans for a temporary replacement for the Lagoon Pond drawbridge on hold until Island residents decide whether to nurse the existing bridge along until a new permanent structure is built...

I-74 Bridge Funding Request Modified - 2/17/2004
IOWA - planners of a new Interstate 74 bridge who see that bill as the vehicle to deliver the first significant funds for the project have modified their expectations. Instead of pushing for $100 million — which they said last year they would seek — officials now hope the legislation will cover the $60 million-$65 million in engineering costs and unspecified “millions” that will go toward land purchases...

Bridge Held Together By Junk - 2/17/2004
OREGON - Where the mountains meet the sea and fog mingles with ocean spray, Josh Rodriguez is jackhammering for gold in the landmark Rogue River Bridge....

North Shore Drive Bridge Likely To Be Closed At Least Another Year - 2/17/2004
MICHIGAN - The crumbling bridge was closed to traffic in August after a Michigan Department of Transportation inspector determined it is unsafe. City, state and regional officials are now working to find a source for the estimated $1.5 million needed to build a new bridge....

Brent Spence Not On Ky. Road Map - 2/17/2004
OHIO - When Gov. Ernie Fletcher unveils Kentucky's updated six-year plan for highway projects Wednesday, don't look for the Brent Spence Bridge on any work calendar....

Batavia Aldermen Pick Design For Wilson Bridge - 2/17/2004
BATAVIA - Aldermen on Tuesday selected a simple one-pier concrete stringer design for the Wilson Street bridge replacement, but plan fancy amenities for the deck....

South Span Of Iraq's Al Mat Bridge Re-opens - 2/11/2004
IRAQ - Bechtel today announced the opening of the south span of the Al Mat Bridge, a key transportation link in Iraq approximately 300 km (186 miles) west of Baghdad and 180 km (112 miles) from the Jordanian border....

Clues Sought Over What Makes Causeway Bridge Off-kilter - 2/11/2004
FLORIDA - A section of the new Memorial Causeway Bridge has apparently stopped drooping, but officials want to get work back on track...

Congress Approves Planning Funds For Knik Arm Crossing - 2/11/2004
ALASKA - It's not nearly enough to build a huge bridge these days, but $6 million in recently approved federal funds for the long-proposed Knik Arm Crossing will pay for a group of consultants to help move the concept toward reality, officials involved with the project said recently....

Danger To Homes Subsides In Port Deposit - 2/11/2004
MARYLAND - The town declared a state of emergency Sunday when cracks in High Street began to widen and portions of the road gave way and sloped on about a 15-degree angle toward the retaining wall. A portion of a small, one-lane bridge serving one house on High Street gave way and fell into a stream flowing into the Susquehanna....

Memorial Bridge In Danger Of Collapse - 2/11/2004
CALIFORNIA - Looking to head off a possible collapse of Healdsburg's Memorial Bridge over the Russian River, city officials have allocated $20,000 for emergency repairs to the 1920s structure....

Footbridge Payout - 2/11/2004
ISRAEL - AUSTRALIAN victims of the Maccabiah bridge collapse in Israel are set to receive the final payment of their $26 million total compensation package....

Traffic May Ease With New Bridge - 2/11/2004
ANN ARBOR - A major change in how drivers cross the Huron River on Dixboro Road will get under way in the near future as workers begin clearing trees for a new bridge....

Bearing Safety Concerns - 2/11/2004
BOSTON - For nine months last year, state and Boston officials allowed heavy trucks to cross the ailing Charlestown Bridge between Charlestown and the North End, despite repeated warnings by engineers that the bridge's weight limit was outdated and too high, and warnings by the state's trucking industry that the situation was a potential disaster....

Portland's 10 Bridges May Be No Match For Quake, Experts Warn - 2/11/2004
OREGON - Only two of 10 bridges spanning the Willamette River -- the Marquam and portions of the Burnside -- have been fitted with the easiest and cheapest seismic bracing....

Burden's Bridges: Toys That Fulfilled Their Potential - 2/11/2004
US - Bridges, of course, have always had great symbolic meaning — I see them as symbols of peace and optimism and connection. They're civil. My fascination with them came out of my interest in railways. And railways are interesting to me because they're the beginning of real nationhood, especially within the Industrial Revolution. They lead to thinking about what constitutes civilization, and what isn't civilizing....

Brent Spence Tunnel Option Too Expensive - 2/11/2004
KENTUCKY - Replacing the Brent Spence Bridge with a tunnel might be a very cost-effective and far-reaching economic development solution. Will a study be undertaken as an alternative to just replacing the bridge? Today's technology and engineering learned in part through the "Big Dig" project in Boston might reduce the costs and provide a multitude of long-term gains for the region....

Part Of Bridge Collapses Under Weight Of Propane Truck In Sw Wash. (photo) - 2/11/2004
WASHINGTON - A truck carrying 800 gallons of propane caused part of a small bridge to collapse in southwest Washington Thursday morning, police said....

Route 33 Bridge Project Just The First Of Many - 2/11/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - The northbound Route 33 bridge damaged Jan. 24 by a sinkhole is just one of a few bridges in the area the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation plans to replace during the next two years....

Uc Berkeley Architecture Professor's New Building System May Offer Solutions To Quake-ravaged Iran - 2/4/2004
BERKELEY - University of California, Berkeley, architecture professor Gary Black says he has a safe, simple and affordable solution to rebuilding the quake-ravaged city of Bam, Iran, where 41,000 people died after a 6.7 magnitude temblor earlier this year....

Neenah Pedestrian Bridge In Peril - 2/4/2004
WISCONSIN - Traffic engineer Gerry Kaiser said the state Department of Transportation rejected Neenah’s design for the bridge and requested changes that could increase the project cost from $1.6 million to $2.2 million....

Report: 13 Percent Of State Bridge In Poor Condition - 2/4/2004
NEW JERSEY - Thirteen percent of the state's bridges are in poor condition and should be repaired soon, but the work could cost nearly $2 billion....

Brent Spence Options Being Studied - 2/4/2004
KENTUCKY - Options for replacing or supplementing the aged Brent Spence Bridge have been whittled down to six configurations that fit into either the existing corridor or a new one that would be carved out of the dense urban landscape to the west....

County Plans To Widen Bloomdale - 2/4/2004
TEXAS - The widening of the roadway and construction of a second bridge over Central Expressway will be done at the same time as the courts facility is being constructed, county engineer Ruben Delgado said. The roadway should be completed before the opening of the new courts facility....

State's Plan For Port St. Lucie Bridge Veers North - 2/4/2004
FLORIDA - State regulators have asked the city to bypass Village Green Drive for the eastern end of a third crossing over the St. Lucie River and instead consider a more northerly route that would connect to U.S. 1 at Savanna Club Boulevard, crossing through La Buona Vita mobile home park and dozens of other homes never considered for the path of a six-lane bridge....

Bridge Routes Have $300m Question Mark - 2/4/2004
KENTUCKY - Whether to spend $300 million to move an essential electricity power substation tops the list of questions to be answered before an exact site can be chosen for the replacement of the Brent Spence Bridge....

Stone Bridge's Collapse 35 Years Ago Stirs Memories - 2/4/2004
FAYETTEVILLE - When the walls of the bridge actually started crumbling Saturday afternoon, word spread quickly throughout the county, and people rose from sick beds to bundle up and to see the beginning of destruction,"...

Elliott Bridge Is Coming Down - 2/4/2004
WASHINGTON - Decades of white-knuckle driving should soon draw to a close. Next year King County will begin work on a new bridge 1,000 feet upstream from the existing bridge - a $16 million sleek, modern span with wider lanes and straighter approaches. Construction is expected to take one to two years to complete...

Bridge Issue Still Contentious - 2/4/2004
OREGON - A state Department of Transportation consulting firm has been asked to study Dare County's proposal to replace the ailing Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet....

Bridge-building Boats Have Been Turned To Combat Uses In Iraq - 2/4/2004
IRAQ - Troops from the Florida, Puerto Rico and North Dakota national guards, under the overall command of Lt. Col. Hector Mirabile, 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, Florida National Guard, patrol the Euphrates River in MK-2 bridge-erection boats....

2004 Concrete Bridge Awards Competition Call For Entries - 2/4/2004
US - The Portland Cement Association invites entries for its Ninth Biennial Bridge Awards Competition to recognize excellence in design and construction of concrete bridges....

Pa. Leader Pledges Full State Support To Fix Bridge - 2/4/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - The state secretary of transportation promised Tuesday to move full-speed ahead with work to repair a crippled bridge on Route 33 and ease the woes of commuters who must navigate a traffic-heavy detour....

Mpo Says Continue Study - 2/4/2004
NORTH DAKOTA - A 2000 Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Planning Organization long-range transportation plan for the cities suggested a need to establish a northern corridor that would set aside land for a future beltway and bridge....

Bridge Panel To Hire Experts - 2/4/2004
ALASKA - Promoters of a bridge across Knik Arm are preparing to hire consultants to help them map out the engineering, environmental and regulatory hurdles that must be conquered if the causeway is to be built....

$250,000 Approved For Blackford Bridge Project - 2/4/2004
KENTUCKY - Additional funding to restore Blackford’s historic railroad bridge was announced by U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell late last week....

Bridge Woes Endanger Centenary Celebrations - 2/4/2004
AUSTRALIA - LOWER Kalgan Progress Association committee member David Giles said the span of the original Lower Kalgan Bridge urgently needed work....

Group Going To D.c. To Seek Funds - 2/4/2004
KENTUCKY - A group of Northern Kentucky business and community leaders will return to the nation's capital next week to try to bring home federal money for a number of local projects. For the second year in a row, the Brent Spence Bridge replacement will be at the top of the list....

Don’t Use It Until Work Is Finished - 2/4/2004
UK - And the bridge, which dates back to 1701, acts as a crucial link for the local community to access the surrounding countryside, particularly the Pirn Hill footpath network....

Groups Work To Bridge Financial Gap - 2/4/2004
MASSACHUSETTS - Plans to build a bridge as part of the Whitney Wharf Park project have hit a snag because the cost has risen dramatically since the initial estimate....

Cracks In Bridge Worry Residents - 2/4/2004
SOUTH CAROLINA - Hundreds of hairline cracks blanketing the surface of a new four-lane bridge over the Broad River have Beaufort County commuters questioning whether they're getting what they paid for....

Bridge Cracks Could Impede Access On Monster Road - 2/4/2004
WASHINGTON - City officials fear a bridge on Monster Road could become a monster problem unless truck traffic across it is restricted....

Route 33 Repairs Are Just The Start For Dealing With Sinkhole Problems - 2/4/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - The start of demolition on the Route 33 bridge over the Bushkill Creek this week drives home the seriousness of the area's sinkhole problem. This is an engineering challenge, to be sure. But it's also a money problem. Maybe worst of all, a lack-of-leadership problem....

Two Designs On Bridge - 1/28/2004
LONG BEACH, CA - Harbor Commissioners whittled down a list of possible designs for the new Gerald Desmond Bridge to two at a study session Tuesday at the port....

Experts Investigating Covered-bridge Collapse - 1/28/2004
OHIO - A partially built covered bridge that collapsed just before Christmas is being disassembled piece by piece at the site throughout next week....

Southern Route Preferred For New Missouri River Bridge - 1/28/2004
IOWA - Iowa Department of Transportation, Nebraska Department of Roads and HDR Architecture/Engineering representatives informally discussed two Missouri River bridge alternatives that would link Mills County with Sarpy County, Neb....

Queens Boulevard May Get Overpass: Dot - 1/28/2004
ASTORIA - The city is planning to embark on some “relatively ambitious engineering projects” along Queens Boulevard in the near future, which might include the construction of an overpass bridge and the conversion of some roads from two-way to one-way, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation said last week....

Redmond Architect: Cut-and-fill Design Better Than Bridge - 1/28/2004
OREGON - Local architect Bill Schertzinger thinks he has a better idea for an aesthetically pleasing Maple Avenue canyon crossing that could cost Redmond much less than a bridge....

Corrosion Blamed For Deterioration - 1/28/2004
FLORIDA - Bridge engineers told Lee County commissioners Tuesday that though the Sanibel Causeway is safe for now it won’t be safe forever. Amir Kangari, a structures design program manager for the Tampa engineering firm PBS&J, told commissioners that the 40-year-old bridge originally was built with below-grade concrete....

Webcams To Look Over Bridge Project - 1/28/2004
MAINE - Imagine a day with temperatures in the sub-zero range and fierce winds howling down the ice-clogged Penobscot River out through the Prospect Narrows. It's anything but a compelling time to go out and see what's happening at what is by far the largest, most expensive construction project currently under way in eastern Maine....

Rail Safety Blunder 'risked Disaster' - 1/28/2004
UK - Rail chiefs are investigating embarrassing evidence of unauthorised and faulty engineering work on a 100mph line, preventing controllers from knowing the precise location of trains....

Officials Want To Cover Captain Swift Bridge - 1/28/2004
ILLINOIS - Bureau County Engineer Jeff Peacock is developing a project to replace the Captain Swift Bridge, about 1 mile west of Princeton on County Road 1600, with a covered timber bridge. The bridge replacement project is still in the approval process through the Illinois Department of Transportation....

Sinking Route 33 Bridge Is Closed - 1/28/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Truckers and motorists who rely on northbound Route 33 will face a cumbersome detour at least until Tuesday because a bridge south of the Stockertown exit has sunk 6 inches....

Bridges Boost Gateway Link - 1/28/2004
NORTH WALES - CONSTRUCTION work on the first of two bridges that will improve links between Holyhead town centre and the port is due to start next month....

Vintage Denton County Bridge Getting New Home In Southlake - 1/28/2004
TEXAS - A century-old iron bridge that crossed Hickory Creek in rural Denton County will soon help residents reach 13 more acres in Bicentennial Park....

Knik Arm Bridge Awaits Funding - 1/28/2004
ALASKA - The new Knik Arm Bridge & Toll Authority is anxiously awaiting the outcome of federal budget negotiations in Congress to see if $5 million to $6 million for environmental and conceptual engineering studies will be appropriated....

High-tech Effort Renews Bridges - 1/28/2004
OREGON - Oregon's signature coastal bridges are undergoing a high-tech retrofit designed to short-circuit the natural process of corrosion and extend their useful lives by decades and perhaps centuries....

Alaska: Gas Pipeline Or Bering Straits Crossing? - 1/28/2004
ALASKA - Reports that a new natural gas pipeline, running 1,300 miles from Alaska to the lower 48, was about to be announced—a fruit of the secretive energy task force of Vice President Cheney—circulated at a Jan. 15 conference in Juneau sponsored by the Alaska State Senate Transportation Committee. But the subject of the conference itself was the desire for new, through railroad corridors from Alaska down through Canada and back into the United States—one of the oldest infrastructure needs, and plans, in North America....

U.s. 41 Contract Canceled - 1/28/2004
FLORIDA - The state Department of Transportation has canceled a $29.7 million contract to widen U.S. 41 from Nokomis north to State Road 681 while it comes to a decision on whether to build higher bridges over Shakett Creek and Dona Bay....

Caltrans' Top Boss Resigns His Post - 1/28/2004
OAKLAND - Three years after arriving at the helm of Caltrans and embarking on a record construction spree, Caltrans Director Jeff Morales resigned Monday, leaving behind a gutted agency with money to do little else than fill potholes....

San Diego Firm Seeks Experienced Bridge Designer - 1/28/2004
USA - Warmer weather awaits! Check out this new post in our BridgeTalk forums....

Bridge Needed In Michigan - 1/28/2004
USA - Another new post in the BridgeTalk forums. A Michigan resident is look for bids to build a 24' span....

Floodway Rule Could Be Relaxed - 1/28/2004
SOUTH CAROLINA - Three years after a divided Richland County Council prohibited development in a floodway, council is considering loosening that rule because it is interfering with several private and county projects....

Bridge Design To Tap Local Funds - 1/20/2004
ASPEN - Upper valley governments agreed Thursday to spend $1.5 million to finish the design work for a new Maroon Creek Bridge....

Port Mann Twin Should Take Priority, Says Translink Head - 1/20/2004
CANADA - Twinning the Port Mann Bridge should be approved and done as soon as possible, says newly-re-elected TransLink chairman Doug McCallum....

Disabled Jordan Bridge Gets A Lift - 1/20/2004
VIRGINIA - The Jordan Bridge was raised to its full height of 145 feet on Tuesday after workers freed the jammed main span that had locked the bridge in a half-open position since a Jan. 3 barge accident....

City Fine-tunes Terror Response Plan With Simulation - 1/20/2004
TEXAS - Texas Department of Public Safety's division of emergency management wrapped up the exercise, which involved a simulated attack in which terrorists blew up a portion of the Harbor Bridge....

Low Bridge, Then No Bridge - 1/20/2004
MICHIGAN - It was the crash felt around Macomb County. A semi-tractor trailer hauling construction equipment struck the 22 Mile Road overpass on the M-53 freeway Jan. 12, causing severe damage to the overpass and shutting down the freeway for the entire business week, creating a nightmare for commuters moving around the western half of the county....

Southwest Jefferson Bridge Proposed - 1/20/2004
LOUISVILLE - If Louisville Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins has his way, there will be a third new bridge spanning the Ohio River, this one in southwestern Jefferson County connecting the Snyder Freeway with Harrison County in Southern Indiana, or Cane Run Road with Ind. 111....

Business Owners Dread Bridge Closure - 1/20/2004
FLORIDA - Charlotte County approved $1.85 million on Tuesday to begin rehabilitation of the 40-year-old bridge. The repairs are expected to take several months and, for at least a portion of the time, the bridge will be completely closed to traffic....

Bridge Repairs, Staff Shake-up Due To Intersect - 1/20/2004
OREGON - The Oregon Department of Transportation is poised to shift most of its bridge engineering work to private contractors just as the state launches a 10-year, $2.5 billion construction program to fix hundreds of ailing bridges and congested roads....

The Old Bridge - 1/20/2004
LOUISIANA - Since 1940, the U.S. 190 Bridge has been a link between East and West Baton Rouge parishes. Its orangy-red color originally came from the bauxite being processed by the Kaiser Aluminum plant located under the east approach. In the mid-1960s, the bridge was painted a color to blend in with the bauxite....

Long Road Ahead - 1/20/2004
INDIANA - Delays in acquiring land for right-of-way and changes to a new entrance at Ivy Tech State College have pushed back the start of the second phase of the 641 Bypass....

Drilling First Step To New Dundee - 1/20/2004
UK - City council engineers began drilling into the ground in the Tay Road Bridge landfall area today to learn as much as possible about the underlying soil and rock before work begins on the £9.3 million first phase of the new waterfront....

West Point Offers Engineering Contest - 1/20/2004
WEST POINT - The United States Military Academy, West Point, is holding its third annual bridge design competition. The contest is open to any U.S. resident, but only people from the age of 13 through Grade 12 may compete for prizes....

Engineers Say Ancient Bridge Has No Hidden Chambers - 1/13/2004
SCOTLAND - ENGINEERS have drawn a blank in their search for hidden chambers which were believed to have been used in the construction of one of the busiest road bridges in the north-east of Scotland, it was revealed yesterday....

Sanibel To Sue In Causeway Fight - 1/13/2004
FLORIDA - The city of Sanibel upped its stake Friday in the public squabble over the aging Sanibel Causeway, issuing a letter to Lee County that outlines plans to sue over the future of the drawbridge....

Taxpayers' Money Goes Down The Drain - 1/13/2004
INDIA - The DCC suspended construction of eight concrete overhead footbridges including the one at Paribagh in 2002, after girders of the Science Laboratory bridge and the bridge on the Biswa Road collapsed suddenly on the busy traffic underneath, killing a number of people....

'fallen Bridge Contractor Shielded' - 1/13/2004
INDIA - Authorities investigating the Dombivli overbridge collapse have alleged that the Central Railway (CR) authorities are shielding contractor Shekhar Gupta because of his father R K Gupta’s clout. R K Gupta is former deputy chief engineer of Central Railway; he retired from service in 1990. The CR authorities, however, deny the allegation....

Tk 64cr Cable-stayed Bridge Over Surma In Sylhet R&hd Trying To Favour Particular Firm For Work - 1/13/2004
BANGLADESH - A section of officials and employees of the Roads and Highways Department (R& HD) are allegedly involved in unprecedented irregularities in favour of a particular firm for the construction of proposed cable-stayed bridge over the river Surma in Sylhet....

Collapsing Bridge Needs Attention - 1/13/2004
BRUNEI - A 20-metre bridge which is in danger of collapse due to soil erosion has caused inconvenience to villagers who depend on the structure to reach their village....

Will It Float? Wis. Builds Bridge On Web - 1/13/2004
WISCONSIN - When the Wisconsin Transportation Department floated a 2.8-million-pound steel arch down the Mississippi River and hoisted it on top of the Cass Street Bridge, they wanted to be sure nobody missed it. The department webcast the Dec. 17 event....

Army Report Into Bridge Collapse 'destroyed' - 1/13/2004
NEW ZEALAND - An important document about the bridge that collapsed on the King Country farm of Keith and Margaret Berryman in 1994 has been destroyed, according to court documents filed in the latest round of the saga....

Officials Say I-5 Widening Badly Needed - 1/13/2004
CALIFORNIA - Carlsbad officials and residents say that while noise and environmental issues still need to be addressed, a proposed state project to widen a 26-mile stretch of Interstate 5 is desperately needed to handle present and future traffic....

The New Bay Bridge - 1/13/2004
SAN FRANCISCO - As the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge slowly rises, commuters in the region are getting a close-up view of one of the world's most ambitious engineering projects: a 2-mile elevated roadway that will combine art and infrastructure in a showcase of cutting-edge technology....

Penndot's 12-year Plan Benefits A-k- Valley - 1/13/2004
PENNSYLVANIA - Adopted in July 2002 and revised in December, the plan lays out where and how the state anticipates spending about $34.6 billion on transportation through 2014....

101-foot Erector-set Version Could Take Until 2007 To Complete - 1/13/2004
MICHIGAN - The mighty Mackinac Bridge will get a miniature cousin in time for its 50th birthday, thanks to a Central Michigan University staff member whose expertise is in Erector sets....

Roads Congress Chalks Out Action Plan For Highways - 1/13/2004
INDIA - The 64th annual session of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) concluded in Ahmedabad on Sunday with a broad action plan for highway planning, pavement engineering, geotechnical engineering, bridge engineering and traffic and transportation....

Earthquakes Can Be Predicted Months In Advance - 1/12/2004
LOS ANGELES - Major earthquakes can be predicted months in advance, argues UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok. "Earthquake prediction is called the Holy Grail of earthquake science, and has been considered impossible by many scientists," said Keilis-Borok, a professor in residence in UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and department of earth and space sciences. "It is not impossible."...

Predicting The Next Big One - 1/9/2004
US - Seismologists may soon have the ability to predict earthquakes several months in advance, say a team of researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles. The group announced Tuesday that it had used a newly developed technique to closely forecast major earthquakes in California and Japan last year, including the magnitude 6.5 tremor that struck Paso Robles, California, in December, and the magnitude 8.3 quake near Hokkaido, Japan, in September....

Bridge Collapse Kills 2 In Bombay - 1/6/2004
BOMBAY - PEDESTRIAN bridge under construction collapsed Friday in a railroad station in Bombay, hitting a train, killing two workers and injuring 13 people, a railroad spokesman said...

Bridge, Rail Crossing Near Ballpark Ok'd - 1/6/2004
SAN DIEGO - State regulators have approved the city of San Diego's plan to spend $10 million to build a rail crossing and pedestrian bridge at Park Boulevard near Harbor Drive....

Victims, Officials Survey Damage - 1/6/2004
ST. LOUISVILLE - As the flood waters subside today, Licking Countians are taking stock of the damage, including Monday's partial collapse of a railroad bridge in St. Louisville that left a locomotive and 23 empty box cars stranded....

Nevada Continues Bridge Quake Retrofits - 1/6/2004
NEVADA - "No bridge or structure is ever really earthquake-proof," said Todd Stefonowicz, assistant chief bridge engineer at the Nevada Department of Transportation...

Supervisor Held In Bridge Collapse Case - 1/6/2004
INDIA - The railway police has arrested Rajan Awasthi, a supervisor of a private contractor, on charges of causing death due to negligence, in the Dombivli foot-over-bridge (FOB) collapse case...

India News: Train Services Being Restored After Over Bridge Collapse - 1/6/2004
INDIA - Train services on Central Railway were being restored Saturday after a pedestrian overbridge fell on a train here Friday, temporarily cutting off railway transport and claiming two lives....

Man Gives Co-passenger A Lease Of Life - 1/6/2004
INDIA - Udmal, who was travelling in the CST-bound local train on which the Dombivli foot over-bridge collapsed, saved the life of his seriously injured co-passenger M M Satyarthi, a railway official who lives at Karjat, by pulling him out of the compartment and rushing him to hospital on time....

Old Bridges Would Become Reef, Fish Habitat - 1/6/2004
SOUTH CAROLINA - The Army Corps of Engineers has approved permits for the state Department of Natural Resources to put material from the old Silas N. Pearman and John P. Grace Memorial bridges at a minimum of 12 sites along the South Carolina coast....

Rm223m Causeway Bridge Contract Farmed Out - 12/31/2003
MALAYSIA - THE developer of the 'crooked' bridge project to link Malaysia and Singapore has farmed out a major contract, although there are signs that the Malaysian government may now want to seek Singapore's cooperation in building a straight bridge....

Slow Going - 12/31/2003
ALABAMA - After 25 years, the Patton Island bridge is open but not completed and still has not been officially named....

Joint Effort To Repair Old Willow Ave. Bridge - 12/31/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - The joint effort is in process to reconnect Old Willow Avenue to the outside world (on the Honesdale end), following the sudden bridge collapse last August....

Penndot Unveils Plans For New Bridge - 12/31/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Township residents have expressed concerns on the condition of its bridges as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation presented plans to replace the bridge on Brandywine Creek Road....

A Bridge Too Low - 12/31/2003
TEL AVIV - The lives of drivers in Tel Aviv became intolerable for two weeks in August when the entrance to the Ayalon freeway at the Halacha interchange, one of the city's busiest, was closed, forcing drivers to travel on the overloaded Namir road or to search for more creative ways to get across the city....

County Lawmaker Rejects Van Dale Study - 12/31/2003
NEW YORK - The incoming majority leader of the Ulster County Legislature said this week that a consultant's report critical of the county's handling of its new bridge fabrication facility is politically motivated....

Bridge Collapse In Bolivia Kills 19 People - 12/31/2003
BOLIVIA - Bolivian officials say at least 19 people are known dead, and another 40 are missing after a bridge collapsed into a rain-swollen river earlier this week....

New Bridge May Create Growth Opportunities - 12/31/2003
DURANGO - The new La Plata County bridge that will cross the Animas River southwest of Home Depot may lead to future development south of Durango, according to some planners and developers....

Barge Hits Florida Avenue Bridge Ramp - 12/31/2003
NEW ORLEANS - Westbound vehicular traffic on the Florida Avenue bridge over the Industrial Canal in New Orleans could be closed for about 60 days after an approach ramp to the bridge was struck early Tuesday by an empty barge pushed by a towboat. The barge knocked out 40 feet of roadway and caused up to $200,000 in damages, authorities said....

Army Showcases Floating Bridges At Shihmen Reservoir - 12/31/2003
TAIPEI - The army yesterday demonstrated the operation of a German-built mobile floating bridge, a move aimed at reassuring the public that the military can handle new equipment....

Drivers' Relief Just Down The Road - 12/31/2003
SEATTLE - After more than 30 years of waiting, the job will culminate a long-standing goal of making it easier to drive from the Smokey Point area onto southbound I-5, the direction the vast majority of motorists who use the interchange travel....

Santa Gets Cleared For Christmas Flight - 12/24/2003
WASHINGTON - An order granting a flight certificate and signed by U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta finds that Santa Claus is “exceptionally fit, joyfully willing and uniquely able to engage in the interstate air transportation for which he has requested a certificate.” The Secretary added that Santa has a 100 percent on-time arrival record, having never failed to deliver all of his toys by Christmas morning....

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project Celebrates Caisson Touchdown - 12/24/2003
GIG HARBOR - Monday, December 15 will be a noteworthy day for the Washington State Department of Transportation and design-builder Tacoma Narrows Constructors (TNC). Although neither drivers crossing the bridge nor people on the Narrows shore will notice anything out of the ordinary, a significant step will be taking place in the $849 million, five-year bridge project....

Crane Collapse Kills Vinton Man - 12/24/2003
LOREAUVILLE, LA. - Federal investigators tried to determine Tuesday whether a crane malfunctioned when its boom fell on a construction worker and killed him....

Bridge Panel To Hire State Police For Patrols - 12/24/2003
NEW JERSEY - The joint toll bridge commission plans to pay state police in New Jersey and Pennsylvania $2.1 million total next year to patrol its bridges, although officials said a final agreement on the patrols hasn't been reached....

Half-built Bridge Falls Into St. Joseph River - 12/24/2003
OHIO - About 1:30 p.m., the middle portion of the $600,000 wooden truss bridge collapsed into the St. Joseph River. Mr. Dean, director of the county fair board, said yesterday it still isn’t clear how much time and money will be needed to fix it....

Bridge Agency Budgets Total $76 Million - 12/24/2003
DELAWARE - The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission on Monday approved two separate budgets, totaling nearly $76 million in expenses, for next year....

Second Bridge Discussed - 12/24/2003
NEVADA - The building of a second bridge connecting Laughlin and Bullhead City is quickly developing, and now a council member and local political group president are asking the questions when and where....

Railroad Bridge Project Could Cost $61 Million - 12/24/2003
MARYLAND - The price of a railroad bridge aimed at easing traffic jams caused by train crossings near the Bladensburg Peace Cross has jumped $10 million, leaving local officials and residents worried about the prospects for the project....

Spectators Turn Out To See Bridge's Giant Arch Put Into Place - 12/24/2003
LA CROSSE - Young and old, on both sides of the Mississippi River, they came to see the new bridge taking shape. As tugboats and winches eased the bridge's giant arch into place, people gathered in parks and along the riverbanks to witness history in the making....

Austin Bayou Bridge Will Be Repaired - 12/24/2003
TEXAS - Brazoria County commissioners agreed Tuesday to replace a closed bridge on CR 171 over Austin Bayou....

Tay Rail Bridge Scoops Top Award - 12/16/2003
UK - The “stupendous” battle against the elements to refurbish the Tay Rail Bridge has won a top prize in the British Construction Industry Awards, writes Steven Bell....

West Virginia 'smart' Bridge May Help Engineers Build Better - 12/16/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - Samir Shoukry works his way from the belly of the bridge to the slippery green rebar of its snow-covered back, talking about the 1,000-foot span over the Monongahela River as if it were alive....

Webcast Of Historic Civil Engineering Event As New Bridge Arch Is Floated Into Place Over Mississippi River - 12/16/2003
WISCONSIN - Sonic Foundry(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:SOFO), a leading rich media solutions company, will use its Mediasite Live(TM) system to Webcast live on Dec. 17 a unique Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) project. In a rare engineering feat, WisDOT will float the entire arch of the new Mississippi River bridge in La Crosse, Wis., and connect it to permanent bridge piers. To view the Webcast, live or on-demand, visit http://www.sonicfoundry.com/solutions/widot.html. A condensed, on-demand version also will be available....

Residents Fear Razed Homes Due To Bridge - 12/16/2003
BISMARCK - ough a bridge north of Bismarck-Mandan might not be a reality for decades, the emotions expressed at a public input meeting about its location were genuine....

Conshohocken Bridge Widening In Works - 12/16/2003
PHILADELPHIA - O'Neill Properties, a developer that has a major stake in Conshohocken real estate, has come up with a plan to temporarily ease a bane of the borough -- the traffic woes plaguing the Matsonford Bridge....

150 Residents Gather To Get Update On Bridge Plans - 12/16/2003
FLORIDA - The next six to nine months will be critical for the public's role in the proposed replacement of the Pensacola Bay Bridge, officials said Tuesday at a meeting in Gulf Breeze....

Feds: River Threatens 27th St. Bridge - 12/16/2003
GLENWOOD SPRINGS - The Roaring Fork River is undercutting footers below the 27th Street Bridge piers, potentially threatening the bridge’s stability, according to an assessment by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

Engineers Think Smaller For Monorail Bridge - 12/16/2003
SEATTLE - In designing a new bridge to carry the monorail across the Ship Canal to Ballard, engineers got simple, then simpler still....

Mississippi River Bridge Keeps Shifting - 12/16/2003
VICKSBURG - The latest long-term repair estimates to the U.S. 80 bridge over the Mississippi River have grown to $13 million, while officials continue to look for answers about why two of the span's piers have shifted....

Want To Build A Bridge? - 12/16/2003
NEW YORK - This Friday, on Dec. 19, New York's Williamsburg Bridge will turn 100. So, what's the best way to commemorate the Williamsburg Bridge, its creators and those who continue to maintain it?...

Wanna Buy A Bridge? - 12/16/2003
INDIANA COUNTY - Pssst, buddy: looking for a guaranteed, one-of-a-kind Christmas gift? A once-in-a-lifetime Christmas gift?...

New Bridge Railing Stylish, Safe - 12/16/2003
CALIFORNIA - "It's sort of an old-fashioned rail that meet all the safety criteria," county engineering manager Paul Wiese said....

Study Focuses On Southern Route To Bypass 10th Avenue South - 12/16/2003
MONTANA - The latest study of the feasibility of building an arterial bypassing Great Falls rejects a possible northern route in favor of a four-lane highway to the south....

Span Towers May Be 1st - 12/16/2003
LONG BEACH - The supporting towers on the proposed new Gerald Desmond Bridge might be the first of their kind in the world, Long Beach Harbor Commissioners were told on Monday....

Bridge Not The Answer, I-91 Ramps Said Critical To Solution For Route 9 - 12/16/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - The engineers hired to study Route 9 traffic say a second bridge across the Connecticut River is not a long-term solution for improving traffic flow between Amherst and Northampton....

Investigators Search For Clues In Bridge Collapse - 12/9/2003
NAPA - Investigators are back on the scene of a deadly bridge collapse that happened in Napa Wednesday afternoon....

Bridge Breaks Barrier - 12/9/2003
IOWA - For all the information the Iowa Department of Transportation is generating on the Interstate 74 bridge corridor project, here is something that hasn’t been publicized. The biggest public improvement project in Quad-City history is being run almost exclusively by women....

Litchfield Township Officials Unaware Of Bridge Cost Increase - 12/9/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Due to increases in the cost of replacing the Parks Creek Bridge in Litchfield Township, the supervisors may be looking into extending a loan agreement currently issued to cover extra funds....

'bridge Needs Our Support' - 12/9/2003
UK - BUSINESSES are rising up in staunch support of Runcorn's second Mersey crossing, claiming major ventures will be put on hold if the project is not given the go-ahead....

One Killed, Seven Injured In Bridge Collapse - 12/9/2003
NAPA - A 20-year-old construction worker was killed and several others injured when a section of a bridge under construction in south Napa collapsed around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday....

Experts Say Technology Used In Collapsed Bridge Is Common - 12/9/2003
NAPA - While inspectors search for the cause of Wednesday's bridge collapse, engineers say that safe construction of spans of the same design as the Maxwell replacement bridge depend largely on the strength of mechanical jacks....

Conshohocken Bridge Widening In Works - 12/9/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - O'Neill Properties, a developer that has a major stake in Conshohocken real estate, has come up with a plan to temporarily ease a bane of the borough -- the traffic woes plaguing the Matsonford Bridge....

No Funding For Greenfield Bridge, Mcardle Projects - 12/9/2003
PITTSBURG - Pittsburgh had been planning to renovate the Greenfield Bridge and repair a retaining wall on McArdle Roadway in Mount Washington. Both projects have been postponed, as $20 million has been cut from the city's 2004 capital budget....

N.j. Bridge Puts Recycled Plastic To Unusual Use - 12/9/2003
NEW JERSEY - Combination of Two Petrochemicals May Offer Inexpensive and Durable Alternative to Wood, Steel and Concrete. The big question is how well plastic bridges will stand up to years of traffic, said Myint Lwin, director of the federal Office of Bridge Technology. "There is no credible, currently available way to predict 50 to 75 years of structural performance from short-term material test data....

L.b. Port Weighs Toll To Replace Old Bridge - 12/9/2003
LONG BEACH - The Port of Long Beach is once again considering charging a toll for vehicles crossing the Gerald Desmond Bridge to drum up revenue to replace the aging span....

County Projects In Bush Spending Bill - 12/9/2003
WASHINGTON - A massive spending bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday includes $4.5 million for Clark County transportation projects....

Bridge Tab Shrinking By The Day - 12/9/2003
TORONTO - To get a good idea of how fast the Toronto Port Authority is back-pedalling on its threat to sue city council for putting the brakes on a bridge to the Island airport, one need only listen to the latest musings of Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong....

To Draw A Bridge - 12/2/2003
NEW YORK - When he can't sleep, the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava draws pictures. Birds, bodies, bulls -- the fluid, figural images repeat themselves in sketch after sketch. The drawings fill his notebooks, and the notebooks -- elegant Japanese ledgers with pages that open out like a room-length accordion -- fill the offices and homes he keeps in Zurich, Paris, Valencia and Manhattan....

Causeway Named No-wake Zone - 12/2/2003
FLORIDA - Engineering reports outlining the disrepair of the Sanibel Causeway have led the U.S. Coast Guard to declare a no-wake zone around the bridge, with violators facing fines up to $27,500....

Plans To Remove Bridge 'sheer Vandalism' - 12/2/2003
UK - SWANSEA City and County Council, still reeling under a barrage of criticism over the shock closure of its popular leisure centre, has been accused of "sheer vandalism" over plans to remove an ancient bridge....

Temporary Bridge May Be In Place By Dec. 7 - 12/2/2003
MONTANA - The Milk River bridge collapsed last Tuesday during a traffic accident involving two tractor-trailers. The bridge closure has forced motorists to use a 7ð-mile detour over gravel roads....

Repair Work Spans Into 2004 - 12/2/2003
KNOXVILLE - Replacing weight-bearing pins delays reopening of Gay Street Bridge...

Lagos Govt Gives Tanker Drivers Fresh Ultimatum To Vacate Ijora Bridge, Highways - 12/2/2003
LAGOS - The state government had said that its action was to protect the bridges from imminent collapse that could result from such act and also to ease traffic congestion. According to Banire, "the move will also check the unnecessary loss of lives and property and further improve on the environmental situation of the affected areas."...

Bridge Collapses, Medan-padang Route Cut Off - 12/2/2003
INDIA - A bridge in Siabu sub-district, Mandailing Natal (Madina) district, North Sumatra collapsed on Sartuday after being stricken by flood waters, causing transporation linking Medan, North Sumatra, and Padang, West Sumatra, to be cut off....

Sauvie Island Bridge Needs Image Spanning Its City And Rural Roots - 12/2/2003
OREGON - Built in 1950 -- before trucks were so big and the island's agriculture so thriving -- the Sauvie Island Bridge today is failing under the heavy loads of contemporary agriculture. Barely holding together with 13 steel splints, it is set to be torn down as soon as 2006. But whether its replacement will similarly strike "the right amount of bridge" is about to be decided....

Drawing The Bridge - 12/2/2003
NORTH CAROLINA - Soon after the landmark Pisgah Covered Bridge was destroyed by a flash flood Aug. 10, word spread that a Randolph Community College student had drawn plans of the structure for a class project. If the rumors were true, it would be a stroke of luck....

Polymer Bridge A New Path - 12/2/2003
OHIO - City of Akron testing material to find out if it can replace heavy, higher-maintenance spans of steel...

Big Four Study Gains $750,000 - 12/2/2003
LOUISVILLE - Another $750,000 in federal money has been earmarked for an engineering and cost study to convert the Big Four Bridge into a walkway across the Ohio River....

County Scrambles To Repair Bad Bridges - 12/2/2003
TEXAS - All four bridges scored below 50 out of 100 points in the state inspections, said Norm Wigington, a highway department spokesman. That makes the county eligible for state and federal aid to pay for repairs....

Creek Wall Collapse Creates Legal Quagmire - 11/25/2003
CANADA - Snowsell speculated the erosion could cause damage to a nearby bridge or street, the city's Pottersburg Creek Pollution Control Plant and, possibly, the fish in the creek....

Shifting Bridge Focus Up To County, Official Says - 11/25/2003
ILLINOIS - Kane County has the authority to shift its focus from designing bridges to buying land for their rights of way, a state transportation official said....

Spotlight: Sanibel Causeway - 11/25/2003
FLORIDA - the Lee County Commission may declare a state of emergency, which would advance the permitting for construction by perhaps a year....

Truck Wreck Takes Out Bridge: U.s. 2 Bridge Over Milk River Collapses (photo) - 11/25/2003
BILLINGS - The D8 Caterpillar dozer was left partially hanging over the bridge above the river, its transport trailer smashed ....

Critical Condition - 11/25/2003
MICHIGAN - State House plan would give $25 million to fix crumbling spans...

Mississippi River I-20 Bridge Was Final Highway Link 30 Years Ago - 11/25/2003
MISSISSIPPI - When the Interstate 20 Mississippi River bridge opened 30 years ago, local residents welcomed the improvement, a longtime former Vicksburg mayor said....

The Bridges Of Humboldt County Rural And Picturesque Reminders Of Years Past - 11/25/2003
CALIFORNIA - Patchworks of old farmhouses frame the rural two-lane road. Cows graze serenely in green pastures as flitting birds chatter above slow-moving streams. A ways down the road, clusters of lazy trees sweep downward, enveloping two weathered covered bridges....

Solicitation: Request For Qualifications - New Fraser River Crossing - 11/25/2003
CANADA - Firms and proponent teams are invited to submit their qualifications to TransLink, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, for the development of the New Fraser River Crossing....

Jobs Engineered - 11/25/2003
UK - Dozens Of skilled engineering jobs are to be created following a decision by planners to back a multi-million pound scheme....

City Oks Study For Aligning Avenues, New Six-lane Bridge - 11/25/2003
MICHIGAN - Holland city officials are trying to figure out how to align a two-lane road with a three-lane bridge....

State Union: Don't Outsource Engineering Work - 11/25/2003
NEW JERSEY - New Jersey could save tens of millions of dollars annually by shifting more transportation engineering work from private contractors to state workers, according to Department of Transportation studies released yesterday....

No Ruling On Judge In Cases From Speedway Bridge's Collapse - 11/25/2003
CHARLOTTE - Attorneys for both sides in lawsuits over a 2000 pedestrian bridge collapse at Lowe's Motor Speedway clashed at a hearing Friday to determine whether the judge overseeing the cases should be removed....

Mondo Quake In Pacific Northwest? - 11/24/2003
US - Geologists have discovered evidence of a massively powerful earthquake zone beneath the Pacific Northwest just offshore from the Seattle area. They made the discovery by piecing together ancient accounts of a giant Japanese tsunami and a computer simulation of a huge trembler in the 17th century....

Shanghai Outlines New Tunnel Vision - 11/18/2003
CHINA - Shanghai is preparing to build a cross-river expressway, involving one of the world's largest tunnels, to Chongming Island....

T.y. Lin, World Renowned Structural Engineer, Dies At Age 91 - 11/18/2003
BERKELY - Tung-Yen (T.Y.) Lin, a professor emeritus in civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visionary whose pioneering work in prestressed concrete had a profound influence on modern structural design, has died. He was 91....

Flynn: A Nondisruptive Highway Project? - 11/18/2003
DENVER - The current job is costing about $2 million. It may cost $5 million to repair the outbound bridge. The reason is that half the length is being fixed on one, while the entire 1,350-foot length of the other one needs repair....

Slow Lagoon Bridge Plans, Some Plead; Tunnel Option Eyed - 11/18/2003
MARTHA'S VINEYARD - Some of the Island's heavy hitters in shellfish and water quality management are warning MassHighway to slow its plans for the construction of a temporary drawbridge across Lagoon Pond....

Bridge Collapse Survivors 'lucky To Be Alive' - 11/18/2003
SOUTH AFRICA - wo survivors of Thursday's dramatic scaffolding collapse at the Coega bridge outside Port Elizabeth, which claimed the lives of two workers and injured about 20 others, say they are lucky to be alive....

Causeway To Be Renamed In Memory Of Collapse Victims - 11/18/2003
TEXAS - The causeway linking South Padre Island to the rest of Texas will be renamed the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway....

Collapsed Bridge: Site Inspection Under Way - 11/18/2003
SOUTH AFRICA - Department of labour inspectors surveyed on Friday morning the wreckage of a bridge which collapsed at the Coega development zone outside Port Elizabeth and interviewed eight construction workers about the disaster....

Part 1: Golden Gate Bridge History - 11/18/2003
CALIFORNIA - For many years before the Golden Gate Bridge was built, the only way to get across San Francisco Bay was by ferry, and by the early twentieth century the Bay was clogged with ferries. In the 1920s, engineer and bridge-builder Joseph Strauss became convinced that a bridge should be constructed across the Golden Gate....

Jta Investigating Wonderwood Bridge Delay - 11/18/2003
FLORIDA - The $36.8 million project was slated to open in November, but thanks to the current design, the bridge is too low where it crosses the Intracoastal Waterway....

Boston Bridge Demolition Sets Record (photos) - 11/18/2003
BOSTON - The demolition of this 2,662-foot-long Ohio Turnpike westbound bridge in Boston Township brought many onlookers to watch the display....

Corporations Give Money To Study Route 60 Bridge - 11/18/2003
WAUKEGAN - Work crews from the Illinois Department of Transportation can begin engineering plans for a wider version of the Route 60 bridge over the Tri-State Tollway as early as January, thanks to funding from corporations....

Real Story Of Kwai Bridge Is A Remarkable, Tragic Tale - 11/18/2003
THAILAND - 100,000 laborers died during construction of a 260-mile railway that linked Burma and Thailand...

Tz Bridge Review Requires More Public Discussion - 11/18/2003
NEW YORK - State officials conducting the environmental review of a possible replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge want to schedule another round of public meetings to review the alternatives, despite needing at least two additional months to do it....

Coalition To Push For New Bridge - 11/18/2003
CINCINNATI - The drive to fund the $750 million replacement of the Brent Spence Bridge will kick into a higher gear today with the formation of Coalition for a New Bridge, which will include a wide-ranging group of community leaders....

Some Seek To Preserve Stone Arch Bridge - 11/18/2003
WISCONSIN - History buffs interested in preserving the few remaining stone bridges in Price County been busy seeking support of others. One of these bridges, located on River Road in the town of Spirit, is the only double arch one remaining in Price County and is in danger of being removed....

Broomfield Bridge Long Rated 'deficient' - 11/18/2003
COLORADO - A bridge at the Wadsworth Boulevard interchange that carries traffic over U.S. 36 has been rated deficient by state transportation engineers for a decade, but officials have no timeline for fixing it....

Transportation A Heavy Load To Bear - 11/11/2003
DES MOINES - A 570–ton steam turbo generator destined for a Des Moines–area electrical utility is being readied for the last leg of its 7,000–mile odyssey at the Burlington riverfront....

Calif.'s Zampa Bridge Honors Ironworker Who Broke Its Ground - 11/11/2003
CALIFORNIA - Until now. In what's thought to be the nation's first major bridge honoring a blue-collar worker, a new span across a strait that empties into San Francisco Bay will be christened the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge....

Mdot Ups Weight Limit On Waldo-hancock Span - 11/11/2003
VERONA - Big trucks began rolling across the 72-year-old bridge immediately following his announcement that the bridge would be open to vehicles of 80,000 pounds for the first time since weight limits were imposed July 11....

Option Chosen To Bridge Tees (photo) - 11/11/2003
UK - Tees Valley Regeneration, the area's urban regeneration company, has revealed the design by Spence Associates has been selected as the stunning new crossing between the Teesdale site at Durham University Queen's Campus and NorthBank at Stockton....

Another Bridge Fiasco? - 11/11/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - As with other situations, it does not take an engineering degree to figure out that heavy traffic on a stone arch bridge nearly 200 years old, exacerbated by heavy traffic volume from a decade-long detour, could, and we stress could, cause trouble....

An Interview With Sarah Graham - 11/11/2003
OREGON - The pressure is on. A $1.9-billion development agreement and what some city leaders believe will be a major key to the city's economic future all hinges on single transportation link:...

An Engineering Marvel: Large Crowd Marks Opening Of Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge - 11/11/2003
CALIFORNIA - Thousands of people braved dark skies and intermittent rain to be the first to cross the new Carquinez bridge Saturday afternoon in Vallejo....

Further Damages Found In Glen Bridge Structure - 11/11/2003
BALTIMORE - Deterioration found during a structural assessment of the Glen footbridge will keep the structure closed indefinitely as officials decide whether to replace or repair the bridge....

Bridge Authority Budget Up 8.04% - 11/11/2003
HIGHLAND - Members of the authority's board of commissioners, who reviewed the figures last week, estimated that toll receipts will amount to $39.48 million, an increase of $55,000, or 1.65 percent....

Hard To Keep On Trucking - 11/11/2003
MICHIGAN - More than 11,000 trucks now cross the Detroit River every day and the growing congestion on both sides of the border has become a threat to the economy in Canada and the United States....

A Bridge Built To The Future - 11/11/2003
CALIFORNIA - Innovative new Carquinez span dubbed the `safest of its kind'...

Pair Demand Bridge Report - 11/11/2003
NEW ZEALAND - Ruapehu Mayor Sue Morris will ask for a copy of an Army report on a bridge collapse that claimed the life of a Taranaki beekeeper almost a decade ago....

Short Street Bridge May Receive A Makeover - 11/11/2003
CHICAGO - Village officials Monday discussed construction options for the 30-year-old bridge, which is in need of repair....

Overweight Vehicles Blamed For Bridge Collapse - 11/11/2003
OREGON - Overweight vehicles and wood rot combined to cause the collapse of the covered bridge in this Jackson County town, a report prepared for the county says....

Plans For Competing International Bridge In The Works - 11/5/2003
NEW YORK - The Ambassador Niagara Signature Bridge Group, the same people who operate the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, envision a privately owned bridge that would handle commercial traffic between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario....

Traffic Crisis In Lagos As Berliet, Other Roads Become Death Traps - 11/5/2003
AFRICA - "The roads are in very bad state of disrepair. There are washouts, massive gully erosions, huge pavement failures up to sub-grade level, eroded bridge abutments and approaches, water ponding on roads due to poor or non-existent drainage, lack of vegetation control, completely eroded road shoulders, bridges and culverts almost at the point of collapse. Some federal roads have become so bad that they are no longer motorable and have been abandoned"....

Avon Moves Ahead With Bridge Demolition - 11/5/2003
VAIL - The Avon Town Council decided to go ahead with the destruction of a dilapidated bridge between Agave and Sunridge Phase I Oct. 30, in the wake of a wave of comments for and against the demolition from Avon citizenry....

Juniata County Getting Bridge Grant - 11/3/2003
MEXICO - A $70,000 grant toward the restoration of the Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge has been awarded to the Juniata County Historical Society....

Suffolk Residents Shown Options For Old Kings Highway Bridge - 11/3/2003
SUFFOLK - More than 100 residents attended a public hearing Wednesday on plans for dealing with the Kings Highway Bridge, a picturesque but precarious bridge at the edge of Chuckatuck...

Taipei City Blamed For Contractor's Suicide - 11/3/2003
TAIPEI - The Control Yuan will be asked to investigate the circumstances surrounding the suicide of a man contracted by the Taipei City Government to demolish the Chungshan Bridge, a New Party city councilor said yesterday....

Historic Bridge May Be Renovated - 11/3/2003
CALIFORNIA - A historic 80-year-old bridge that is unlike any other in Solano County may avoid getting torn down and replaced....

Tay Bridge Work Wins Again - 11/3/2003
UK - The successful renovation of the Tay Bridge has won its second award in a month, this time from Scottish cultural and heritage body the Saltire Society....

Ruapehu Mayor Meets Berrymans Over Bridge Collapse - 11/3/2003
NEW ZEALAND - King Country couple Margaret and Keith Berryman were partially blamed in the corner’s inquest for the death of beekeeper Kenneth Richards following a bridge collapse in 1994....

Vdot Schedules Review, Repairs Of Safety Problems At Local Tunnels - 11/3/2003
VIRGINIA - A series of long-festering maintenance problems at the region’s tunnels – including broken fire hydrants and malfunctioning floodgates – will be cataloged and repaired under a review ordered by the Virginia Department of Transportation....

Waldo-hancock Bridge Reopens To Trucks, Buses - 11/3/2003
MAINE - The Maine Department of Transportation announced Thursday that cables supporting the Waldo-Hancock Bridge have been reinforced enough to allow buses and trucks to once again cross the span between Bucksport and Verona....

Officials: Bypass Would Boost Growth - 11/3/2003
WHITFIELD COUNTY - A planned bypass off Highway 225 would not only help ease some of Murray County's traffic problems but could boost economic growth in the area, local officials said Wednesday....

Bridge Girder Holds Up Traffic 1/16 Inch Means Miles Of Gridlock - 11/3/2003
CHARLESTON - Workers nestling a 40-ton, 147-foot-long piece of the new $632 million Cooper River bridge into place hit a snag about 4:30 a.m. when they realized one side of the girder had overshot its connection point....

Traffic Misery As Road Bridge To Stay Closed - 11/3/2003
SCOTLAND - THOUSANDS of commuters face more misery as one of the busiest routes into Glasgow is to stay closed for an extra four weeks....

Pedestrian Bridge Repair Costs Soar - 11/3/2003
ILLINOIS - The crumbling and aesthetically-challenged Deerfield Road pedestrian bridge at the Metra tracks will be replaced by August of next year at a cost of $1.5 million with a cedar bridge with a copper copula roof, if all goes according to plan....

Mccutcheon Says Sponsors Could Reduce Cost Of Bridge - 11/3/2003
BANFF - A footbridge over the Bow River, stalled for years because of cost, has new life under a plan championed by Daryn McCutcheon....

Secrets In The Sand - 10/29/2003
US - They are questioning the widely accepted theory that the arrival of the first North Americans came approximately 13,000 years ago when an ice-free corridor opened on a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska....

Crews Ready To Shift Load To Strengthen E. Maine Bridge - 10/29/2003
VERONA - Construction crews are ready to take a major step to strengthen the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, whose support cables have weakened over the years....

Transit: Time Running Out For Harbour Bridge Clip-ons - 10/29/2003
NEW ZEALAND - That means a third harbour crossing, which would take at least 16 years to build, is essential to the future of transport between Auckland and the North Shore, says the Government transport-funding body....

Bridge's Feet Are In The Past - 10/29/2003
NORTHWICH - THE expensive engineering problem of how to build a bridge across Witton Brook in Northwich has been solved by some 70-year-old photographs....

Man Dies In Desoto County Bridge Collapse - 10/29/2003
MISSISSIPPI - Jerrell Robinson, 20, of Hernando, and his car were crushed by one of six 30,000-pound steel-reinforced concrete beams that fell after being hit by a tract hoe that was working on a neighboring bridge, said Danny Walker, assistant district engineer for the Mississippi Department of Transportation....

Read The Mdot Statement On Collapse - 10/29/2003
MISSISSIPPI - At approximately 3:30pm, Harper Construction of Nashville, Tennessee, was working on the Highway 304 project and hit a span of beams supporting the bridge with a piece of escavation equipment causing the structure to collapse onto Highway 51....

Bridge Project Design Could Threaten Park - 10/29/2003
KENTUCKY - One month after federal officials cleared the way for Kentucky and Indiana to begin final design work for building two new Ohio River bridges and rebuilding Spaghetti Junction, Louisville waterfront officials are sounding an alarm....

Alarm Raised Over Aging U.s. Bridges - 10/29/2003
US - As many spans reach end of useful lives, costs rise and safety issues loom...

Eating Out Helps Pisgah Bridge Effort - 10/29/2003
ASHEBORO - Local residents can eat out while supporting the rebuilding of Pisgah Covered Bridge starting on Tuesday....

Scores Of Earthquake Sensors Being Built Into New Bridge Set To Open In November - 10/29/2003
CALIFORNIA - A $200 million suspension bridge that opens in three weeks across the Carquinez Strait will be the first major bridge in California with earthquake sensors built in, state officials said Thursday....

Retaining Walls Being Examined By State - 10/29/2003
KNOXVILLE - Records show the walls have become distorted, like the 93-foot-long one that collapsed Sept. 10 in Nashville, said Kim Keelor, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Transportation....

Bridge Inspections Under Scrutiny - 10/29/2003
CANADA - “The ministry is trying to do the best it can with less money. The MTO has a budget nine per cent less than it did in 1995 but, in real dollars, that’s likely more than 35 per cent,” Ramsay says, adding he fears for the future with another round of tax cuts possibly coming down the pipe at the next provincial budget....

Mayor Promises Renewed Enthusiasm For Bridge - 10/29/2003
TEXAS - It’s time for the city to get serious about a proposed second international bridge, says Del Rio Mayor Dora G. Alcalá....

Pontoon Bridge Opens To Traffic As A Trial Run - 10/29/2003
HANOI - Basic construction of a pontoon bridge spanning the Red River completed on Sunday, when the Hanoi Department of Public Transport and Army engineering units opened it to traffic for a trial run....

Spectacular Transformation Envisioned For Rochester's Aqueduct - 10/29/2003
NEW YORK - Cities such as Toronto have transformed their underground spaces into shopping or retail corridors. And over the decades, Rochester officials have proposed different uses for the massive urban cavern, none of which has materialized....

Blagojevich Puts Rock River Bridge On Fast Track - 10/29/2003
ILLINOIS - The new West Rock River bridge, a major expansion of Western Illinois University and protecting the future of the Rock Island Arsenal are on the list of Quad-City priorities getting the state’s attention, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Wednesday during a speech in East Moline....

Final Touches On New Bridge Next Week - 10/29/2003
CALIFORNIA - The new 460-foot-long, 43-foot-wide reinforced concrete box girder bridge will alleviate the weight restrictions and safety concerns of the old Shaffer Bridge, Senior Engineer Mark L. Reno of Sacramento’s Quincy Engineering, Inc., said in July of 2002....

Bridge Collapse Leads To Traffic Diversion - 10/29/2003
INDIA - According to reports, the bridge at Ongur had developed cracks a few days ago and yesterday it suddenly collapsed. Following the incident, traffic between Chennai and Tiruchy is being diverted through East Coast Road....

State Considers Second Bridge To Umass - 10/29/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - The state is studying whether to build a second bridge over the Connecticut River, connecting Hatfield directly to the University of Massachusetts campus....

Securing An Icon - 10/29/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - The platform of corrugated metal sags slightly under each worker's footstep, the waves of the Pacific Ocean crash 200 feet below and just overhead, the underbellies of cars and trucks flash through gaps in the roadway deck....

Bridge Collapse Tragedy Raises Questions - 10/29/2003
MEMPHIS - THE DEATH of a Horn Lake man at a highway-overpass construction site this week raises questions about a common construction method that has been used, experts say, since at least the 1950s....

Two-lane Rural Bridge Collapses; No Injuries - 10/29/2003
ALABAMA - No injuries were reported when the concrete bridge fell into a creek Saturday afternoon. A 911 call alerted sheriff's officials to the collapse of the Pine Barren Bridge, located about 2.5 miles east of Millry....

Flood The Worst Ever, Engineer Says - 10/29/2003
CANADA - An engineer this week said the flooding that occurred this past week in the Sea to Sky corridor is the most devastating in history....

Replacing Bridge Is Only Option - 10/29/2003
EAST PRAIRIE - A meeting at East Prairie Métis settlement hall on Oct. 14 had residents asking M.D. of Big Lakes to replace Baker's Crossing Bridge at a cost of more than $4 million....

The Emmental Bridges Tourism Gap - 10/29/2003
SWITZERLAND - The tourist office in canton Bern’s Emmental region is about to publish a unique travel guide to several of its most important historical monuments – its wooden bridges....

Testing The Water: Dive Team To Scout Out Lake Washington Mystery - 10/29/2003
SEATTLE - The rotting, 160-foot-long vessel, along with two old barges buried nearby, might be in the way of anchor cables needed to build a new span...

B.c. Man Recounts Surviving Bridge Collapse - 10/29/2003
CANADA - The cost of flood damage in British Columbia has risen to $25 million, but there are costs that can't be measured in dollars. Two men lost their lives in the raging waters while one managed to escape....

Police Investigate Bridge Collapse (photos) - 10/29/2003
MISSISSIPPI - A bridge under construction near Green T Road on Highway 51 just South of Nesbit in DeSoto County collapsed Monday, killing the driver of a vehicle passing underneath shortly before 3:30 p.m....

Police Open To Bridge Death Probe - 10/29/2003
NEW ZEALAND - Police say they are open-minded about whether to investigate a 1994 bridge collapse that killed a Taranaki man....

City To Improve Roebling Bridge Approach - 10/29/2003
CINCINNATI - The city of Cincinnati plans to lead a collaborative effort to reconfigure the Theodore M. Berry Way approach to the Roebling Bridge....

City Seeks Funds For New Topeka Boulevard Bridge - 10/29/2003
KANSAS - The finishing touches are being placed on design work for a new Topeka Boulevard Bridge over the Kansas River. Now, city officials have to find the money to pay for the $41 million project....

Press Release: Washington State Releases New Version Of Software Component Libraries - 10/9/2003
OLYMPIA - The Washington State Bridges and Structures Office has just released version 2.0 of it's Washington Bridge Foundation Libraries (WBFL). New components have been added to the libraries for superstructure analysis and reinforced concrete capacity analysis. The components are provided under the Alternate Route open source license....

Board Approves Four Contracts, Including Hereford Bridge Study - 10/8/2003
BISBEE - In approving the contracts, the board budgeted more than $110,000 toward the evaluation of the strength of the Hereford Bridge piers and abutments and the Portal Bridge...

Train Driver Escapes Tipperary Bridge Collapse - 10/8/2003
IRELAND - An investigation was under way today after a freight train derailed in Co Tipperary....

City Council Iffy On I-75 Plan - 10/8/2003
CINCINNATI - Although a Cincinnati City Council majority appears to support a plan for improving Interstate 75 by integrating light rail train service with more highway lanes, two city officials who get to vote on the regional plan likely will cancel each other out....

Proposed Policy Favors Local Firms - 10/8/2003
KANSAS - All Cecil Kingsley wants is a chance to design a bridge -- any bridge -- in Douglas County…...

Officers Of Knik Arm Bridge Authority Discuss Challenges They Face - 10/8/2003
ALASKA - A bridge across Knik Arm would be among the largest transportation projects in recent Alaska history, one that could remap the direction growth and development take in the region in coming decades....

Halliburton's Influence: Conflict Or Well Deserved? - 10/8/2003
WASHINGTON - Now, six months after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, there is mounting scrutiny of Halliburton's Iraq contracts, which total $3.1 billion and grow by the day...

More Bridges To Be Built On Lower Yangtze River - 10/8/2003
CHINA - East China's Jiangsu Province will construct 10 bridges and two tunnels to span the lower Yangtze River, the country's longest....

Some See A Landmark; Others, A Bridge Too Rusty - 10/8/2003
NEW YORK - For nearly 90 years, the Hojack Swing Bridge supported railroad cars as they crossed the Genesee River,...

Bridge Collapse Leads To Drug Bust - 10/8/2003
MISSISSIPPI - A Jones County bridge collapse led sheriff's deputies to a stash of crystal methamphetamine ingredients Tuesday....

Doh Designates Roads For Heavier Coal Trucks - 10/8/2003
VIRGINIA - The Public Service Commission took over responsibility for enforcing truck weight limits on Wednesday, but coal haulers anticipating a new 120,000-pound cap will have to meet existing limits until new signs are in place....

Forecast On Danube Bridge Ii - 10/8/2003
BULGARIA - THE construction of Danube Bridge II, linking the Bulgarian town of Vidin and the Kalafat in Romania, will cost between 210 and 240 million euro,...

Press Release: Rei Teams Up With Larsa To Enter The Bridge Design And Construction Market - 10/8/2003
YORBA LINDA, - --Research Engineers International ("REI"), a division of netGuru Inc. (Nasdaq:NGRU), provider of STAAD.Pro and other world class engineering software for structural engineering design and analysis, today announced that it has entered into a strategic venture with LARSA Inc. ("LARSA"), manufacturer of high-end software solutions for stage construction analysis of buildings and bridges for seismic, non-linear and time-dependent effects....

South Shore Repair Work Put Off Until Causeway Re-opens - 10/8/2003
BERMUDA - section of the road on South Shore completely devastated by the force of Hurricane Fabian is not likely to be rebuilt until the Causeway is completed and re-opened....

New Messages In Bridge Talk! - 10/1/2003
USA - We've had lots of messages posted in the BridgeTalk forums in the last couple of weeks. Many of the messages are from students and fellow bridge engineers seeking information and advice. Please visit the forums and help someone out today!...

Transportation Officials: Tunnels, Bridges Vulnerable To Terrorists - 9/30/2003
WASHINGTON - The panel found that 1,000 of the 600,000 bridges in the country are vulnerable and that terrorist attacks on these structures could result in substantial casualties and economic disruption....

Making A Case For A New Bridge - 9/30/2003
GEORGIA - Washington County officials will make a presentation to the Transportation Review Advisory Council next week, seeking funds for the North Muskingum River Bridge project....

Knik Bridge Group Begins Work - 9/30/2003
ALASKA - The idea of building a road and rail connection across the water between Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna region has been talked about and studied for three decades -- and the KABTA board seemed intent on making up for lost time....

Boat Owners Blame Pilot, Bridge Flaws For Collapse - 9/30/2003
WASHINGTON - The owners of the tugboat that crashed into the Interstate 40 bridge near Webbers Falls, Okla., in May of last year say a heart problem suffered by the boat’s captain led to the collision and deficient bridge construction contributed to its fatal collapse....

Penndot Commencement Ahead Of Schedule - 9/30/2003
PITTSBURG - Today, PENNDOT and Trumbull Corp. conducted the long-awaited commencement of the Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel reconstruction project. Officials, project engineers, workers and guests lined the Fort Pitt Bridge ramp to I-376 east to cut a portion of the ceremonial ribbon marking the completion of the ten-year project....

Region's Bridges To Get First Fix – Then Extra Traffic - 9/30/2003
OREGON - Chris Rupert of Parametrix pointed out Central Oregon bridge projects included in first phase of 10-year, $1.6 billion repair and replacement effort....

Female Engineers Take Charge - 9/30/2003
NEW JERSEY - For the first time, most leaders of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers are women...

Toll Deal Doesn't Bridge All Gaps - 9/30/2003
DELAWARE - The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission will decide today whether to follow Govs. Ed Rendell and James E. McGreevey's advice to roll back car tolls to 75 cents....

City Official: Grant Street Bridge Two Years Away - 9/30/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - There was good news for more than three dozen West Side residents who filled council chambers Sept. 23....

Big Rig Carries Bigger Beam To Bridge Site (photo) - 9/30/2003
SOUTH CAROLINA - The beam, the largest ever transported along South Carolina streets, eventually will support an on-ramp connecting Interstate 26 and the new bridge....

Losing Links To Another Era - 9/30/2003
MILWAUKEE - Another historic truss bridge, a disappearing feature on the Wisconsin landscape, is about to come down on Highway 33 in the heart of Saukville....

Budget Includes Funds For Census, Roads, More - 9/30/2003
ILLINOIS - $500,000 for an engineering study on the Southwest Highway bridge over LaGrange Road. Early studies of LaGrange Road improvements show the bridge must come up three feet....

Bridge Collapse Tugboat Owner Seeks To Limit Damages To $1.2m - 9/30/2003
ARKANSAS - The Tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request by Oklahoma officials to postpone lower court proceedings in a tugboat company's attempt to limit its damages....

Council Joins Quest To Preserve Old Bridge - 9/30/2003
TACOMA - Tacoma's nine City Council members and a group of determined residents embarked this week on a sort of bureaucratic treasure hunt in quest of money to save the Murray Morgan bridge....

Car Slams Into Bridge, Causing Further Damage - 9/30/2003
MISSOURI - Kennedy said this could be good news, in a way, for the city. It is possible the damage might be such that MoDOT sees the necessity of replacing the bridge. This could then make the city eligible for MoDOT funding to do preliminary engineering for a new bridge....

Waldo-hancock Bridge Getting Extra Cables - 9/30/2003
VERONA - The $4 million project involves stringing new strengthening cables that will enable the bridge to support vehicles as heavy as 80,000 pounds....

Mitigation Ongoing To Ease Impact Of New Bridge On City's East Side - 9/30/2003
CHARLESTON - Back when the details of the new Cooper River bridge still were murky, one thing was crystal clear. The span would connect peninsular Charleston with Mount Pleasant, its new interchanges cutting through several neighborhoods of Charleston's East Side....

Bridge Work Delayed Until Summer 2004 - 9/30/2003
ILLINOIS - The pedestrian bridge spanning Dundee Road between Field Elementary and London Middle schools will stand as is for another year....

Calcasieu Bridge And Westlake Overpass - 9/30/2003
LAKE CHARLES - With all the road construction projects we bump into, you probably don't want to hear about more. But some big ones could be coming our way, and they'll mean progress for the area. Replacing the Calcasieu River Bridge is one of them....

Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Under Construction - 9/30/2003
LAS VEGAS - Several major overpass projects are underway or about to start on local highways. The most visible project for the moment is in the heart of the Resort Corridor, where beams are being placed at Harmon and I-15. But that project is dwarfed by the one 45 minutes south of here....

Skowhegan Bypass Opponents Propose Advisory Balloting - 9/24/2003
MAINE - Opponents of a proposal to build a new Kennebec River bridge and bypass around Skowhegan are asking selectmen to run the idea past voters in a nonbinding referendum....

Townsend Bridge Project Put On Hold - 9/24/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - When Townsend Town Administrator Jim Johnson checked out the South Street Bridge project Wednesday, he noticed that the repair work that had been done practically every day for the past two months had ceased...

Brent Spence Seen As Top Priority - 9/24/2003
KENTUCKY - Kentucky highway officials scrambled Friday to reassure area leaders that not only is the renovation or replacement of the Brent Spence Bridge a top priority, the project is actually moving forward....

A Span-saving Plan Put Safety At Risk - 9/24/2003
SHELBYVILLE - Moving two of the county’s historic bridges to the planned city-county recreational park could allow needed road projects to move forward, county officials say, if they and state officials can bridge their differences....

Da: No Charges In Bridge Collapse - 9/24/2003
NEW YORK - The Oneida County District Attorney's Office will not file criminal charges as a result of the failed pedestrian bridge project in Marcy, DA Michael Arcuri said Friday. Whether or not the bridge design lands any parties in legal court is not up for Arcuri's office to judge, he said....

Bridge Closure Causing Concern Among Residents - 9/24/2003
OAKLAND - More than 30 people affected by last week’s closure of the Savage River Bridge near Bloomington met with Garrett County’s commissioners Tuesday to ask why the bridge was closed so quickly and what is being done to solve the problem....

Bridging The Banks - 9/24/2003
NORTH CAROLINA - The state has launched a study of whether to build a 17-mile bridge connecting Bodie Island to the village of Rodanthe, the northernmost community of Hatteras Island....

Residents Petition To Reopen Bridge - 9/24/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Several residents of Derry Township this morning presented a letter and a petition to the Montour County Commissioners in an attempt to open a county bridge which spans Mud Creek outside Washingtonville....

Mdot Holds Donnell's Bridge Hearing - 9/24/2003
MAINE - Maine Department of Transportation held a short preliminary public hearing Sept. 10 to gauge the concerns of Wells and Ogunquit residents regarding widening Donnell's Bridge....

New Span Goes Over Parkway, Under Greenfield Bridge - 9/24/2003
PITTSBURGH - The city is taking action to get ready for a much-needed facelift on the Greenfield Bridge, but WTAE's Ellen Gamble reports that they have built another span first....

Nature Tries To Shift Outer Banks But Man Keeps Shoveling It Back - 9/24/2003
NORTH CAROLINA - Nature endowed the Outer Banks of North Carolina with great beauty — long ribbons of sand with Atlantic Ocean waves on one side and marsh-fringed bays and sounds on the other. But the people who flocked to the Banks have been interfering with this fragile natural landscape for decades...

State Awards Money For Two Projects - 9/24/2003
BETHEL - The money will go toward a major renovation of the intersection of Plumtrees Road, Walnut Hill Road and Whittlesey Drive. It will also cover the cost of replacing the Plumtrees Road Bridge, which goes over East Brook....

Bridge Work Goes Out To Bid - 9/24/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - Two lines in the classified section of Saturday’s Boston Globe officially put the $5.1 million project out to bid....

Emergency Repairs Being Made To Adams Bridge - 9/24/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - The town declared a limited state of emergency Wednesday morning for a bridge on Upper East Hoosac Street that was unsafe and unable to support emergency vehicles....

Bosses Consider Bay Bridge - 9/24/2003
UK - Tourist bosses are considering an ambitious plan to build a 12-mile bridge linking Cumbria and Lancashire across Morecambe Bay....

Dot Officials Consider New Bypass Alignment - 9/24/2003
MAINE - Town selectmen are expected to ask state transportation planners later this month to consider pushing the northern arm of a proposed bypass farther east to avoid a residential area....

New Fhwa Web Site Puts Highway Specifications Under One Roof - 9/24/2003
WASHINGTON - Federal Highway Administrator Mary Peters today announced a new web site that, for the first time, makes available to highway agencies, contractors, construction engineers, and researchers all highway construction specifications from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico....

Council: Tear Down That Bridge - 9/24/2003
SEGUIN - A unanimous Seguin City Council made clear Tuesday night that they wanted the pedestrian bridge in Starcke Park, which critics have branded an “eyesore” and a “monkey cage,” to be torn down. However, questions still remain as to how quickly that could happen....

Reviewing Bridge Designs - 9/24/2003
ILLINOIS - Howard Miller admires the modernity of the cable-stayed single pylon bridge structure, but doesn't think it says Batavia as much as the elliptical plaza design....

Lining Up Bridge, Piece By Piece - 9/24/2003
SARASOTA - At 3,097 feet, the bridge is the largest single-box-girder structure in the world, a term that refers to the hollowed-out configuration of the bridge supports....

Roads And Bridges In Chechnya - 9/24/2003
CHECHNYA - Chechnya rebuilds its roads, bridges and railroads destroyed in fighting and the floods of summer last year. It is building new ones too. This work is done by Chechen workers, Russian companies, and the engineering units of the Russian forces in the North Caucasus and railway military units....

Last-minute Lawsuits Filed Over Padre Bridge Collapse - 9/24/2003
TEXAS - The two-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the Queen Isabella Causeway has passed with a rash of lawsuits filed just short of the deadline....

Federal Highway Bill Includes $4 Million For Stressed Bridge - 9/24/2003
MAINE - A highway and bridge bill that's just cleared a major hurdle in Congress includes $4 million to rehabilitate the Waldo-Hancock Bridge and several other projects in the state....

Report Cites Flaws In Bridge Collapse - 9/16/2003
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A pedestrian bridge that collapsed while under construction last October, killing one worker and injuring nine others, was braced by supports that were too weak, according to results of an investigation released Friday....

Flawed Bracing Design Blamed In Fatal Marcy Bridge Collapse - 9/16/2003
SYRACUSE - The 57-page report by the state Department of Transportation concluded that designers failed to properly account for the flexibility of the steel girders they used and the unusual slenderness of the 170-foot span....

Board Awaits Rail Redesign Report - 9/16/2003
HAMPTON - While the Board of Selectmen awaits the final engineering report on the Exeter Road railroad redesign, members seem reluctant to embark on a $1 million to $2 million project any time soon...

Pedestrian Walkway Planned For '04 - 9/16/2003
MICHIGAN - Utility relocation concerns that waterlogged the planned 2004 replacement of the River Avenue bridge have been reconciled and the project will likely start with construction of a pedestrian walkway next year and the entire bridge in 2005....

Two Years After Collapse, Causeway Gets Greater Protection - 9/16/2003
TEXAS - Almost two years after barges knocked a 240-foot gap in the Queen Isabella Causeway and vehicles plunged off the broken span, highway engineers are working to ensure that motorists crossing Texas' longest bridge are better protected....

Investigators Look At Structural Damage To Bridge After Train Derailment - 9/16/2003
MINNESOTA - Crash investigators in St. Paul are on the scene of a train derailment that happened Monday afternoon. The train hit the Summit Avenue Bridge over Ayd Mill Road around 4:45 p.m....

Fire Marshal's Widow Files Bridge Collapse Lawsuit - 9/16/2003
TEXAS - The widow of the Port Isabel fire marshal killed at the Queen Isabella Causeway's collapse has sued the state highway agency and other defendants in connection with the collapse two years ago that killed eight people....

Attention Now On Lawsuits - 9/16/2003
SYRACUSE - With the major report on last year's Marcy pedestrian bridge collapse complete, the focus now shifts to the several pending legal actions seeking a total of more than $300 million....

Retaining Wall Collapses On I-40; None Injured - 9/16/2003
TENNESSEE - The collapse of a retaining wall onto an Interstate 40 ramp yesterday appears to have been a ''freak occurrence,'' but officials probably are not going to know what happened until next week....

Bridge Design Awaits Funds - 9/16/2003
ASPEN - Elected officials from Aspen, Snowmass Village and Pitkin County reviewed the preliminary engineering work last week that has been done on a new bridge, which would replace the 116-year-old span that currently carries Highway 82 over the Maroon Creek gorge....

Understanding The Science Of 'sync' - 9/16/2003
US - Such an interaction took place when London's Millennium Bridge was opened in June 2000. As thousands of pedestrians marched across the bridge, the resulting vibrations caused foot traffic to synchronize and the bridge began to shake violently....

Funds Short For Repair Of 640 Turnpike Bridges - 9/16/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Michael Baker Jr. Inc., engineering consultant for the toll road, has estimated the cost of repairs and rehabilitation at nearly $1.2 billion over the next 30 years -- provided all of the bridges last that long....

Pisgah Bridge Replacement Design Approved By Idot - 9/16/2003
IOWA - Progress has been made in the quest of the City of Pisgah to get its new bridge over the Soldier River on County Road F20...

Column: Citizens Know A Worthy Expense When They See One - 9/16/2003
MICHIGAN - More than just the prettiest span of its kind, the Mackinac Bridge is a metaphor for a state that has long prized both its natural beauty and its engineering know-how....

Now Is The Time For Bridges To Be Built - 9/16/2003
BERMUDA - Former United Bermuda Party Minister Quinton Edness has called on Government to be better prepared for future hurricanes by building two bridges in the East End of the Island....

Cooper River Bridge Crews Start Preparing - 9/16/2003
CHARLESTON - The threat of Hurricane Isabel has gotten the attention of those working on the most expensive construction project in South Carolina's history....

Salem To Consider Bridge Buy - 9/16/2003
OREGON - Three years of negotiations will come to an end Monday when the Salem City Council considers buying the Union Street railroad bridge for $1....

New Bridge Is One For The Books - 9/16/2003
FLORIDA - During the long debate over the design of the new Ringling Causeway bridge, Sarasotans made one thing perfectly clear: They didn't want an "off the shelf" bridge from the Florida Department of Transportation...

Span That Once Carried Trains Will Carry Trail - 9/10/2003
PITTSBURG - We bridge gaps in our lives. We advise loved ones to cross bridges when they come to them, but not burn them afterwards. We caution against concerning ourselves with water under the bridge. And speaking of water, we sing about bridges over the troubled kind....

Legislative Actions May Create Jobs - 9/10/2003
OREGON - One will supply $2.5 billion from bonds during the next decade to fix the worst of Oregon’s cracked bridges and crumbling roads. The other will raise $150 million in bonds of the $350 million estimated cost of a new Portland-area stadium to lure the Montreal Expos or another professional baseball team....

Bridge Sees Many Firsts - 9/10/2003
ALASKA - Within minutes after the William Ransom Wood Centennial Bridge officially opened to pedestrians Friday afternoon, an eager throng of Fairbanksans crossed it....

Bridge Design Is Up To You - 9/10/2003
CHICAGO - The type of bridge that spans the Fox River in downtown Batavia may be essential to the city's vitality and beauty. As the choice of bridge design affects residents and business owners as well as future generations, the city is looking for the public's input....

Swing Is Gone, But Not Forgotten - 9/10/2003
ILLINOIS - In its last year of operations, more than 9,000 cars a day crossed the 135th Street swing bridge that linked Romeoville and Lemont....

Money For Bridge Rejected - 9/10/2003
CALIFORNIA - The Ukiah City Council chose not to approve an additional $89,271 from city funds toward building the Orr Creek bridge, proposed Wednesday by city staff....

Harris Ranch Bridge Delayed Again - 9/10/2003
IDAHO - The proposed East ParkCenter Bridge hit another snag this week when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers withdrew its consideration of a request for a permit to build the bridge....

Bridge Offers Sense Of Pride For Engineers - 9/10/2003
LAFAYETTE - For engineers at PENSCO, the opening of Camellia Bridge is a source of both relief and pride....

Soldiers Build Bridges In Peru - 9/10/2003
UK - An Army spokesman said: "The new bridge was opened and the mayor of the village showed his appreciation by presenting an old sheep to the work force, which they had to slaughter. This is a great honour in Peru."...

Louisville Bridges Project Confirmed - 9/10/2003
LOUISVILLE - The Federal Highway Administration has issued its "record of decision," the official document allowing the $1.9 billion project to proceed....

Season Of Facelift For Federal Roads - 9/10/2003
LAGOS - After several false starts in the rehabilitation of federal roads across the country, there seems to be a silver lining in the horizon with the establishment of a road maintenance agency and the award of contracts for road rehabilitation, the government appears to be yielding to public demand to reduce carnage on roads,...

Surat’s Oldest Bridge To Be Demolished - 9/10/2003
INDIA - TO prevent another Daman-Ganga tragedy, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to demolish the 128-year-old Hope Bridge on the Tapi. For the past three years, the SMC’s Standing Committee had been pondering about the ‘structural stability’ of the bridge. But, the recent tragedy made up their minds for them....

Oregon Crews Gearing Up For Years Of Bridge Repair Projects - 9/10/2003
PORTLAND - Oregon's new $1.6 billion bridge repair program includes about 33 structures in Northwest Oregon, including Portland, that will be repaired or replaced to speed the region's flow of passengers and goods...

Modot Seeks Public Input On Missouri 64/nemo Bridge Plan - 9/10/2003
SPRINGFIELD - A plan to rehabilitate the Missouri 64 bridge over Pomme de Terre Lake near Nemo will be presented at a public meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Hermitage, and Missouri Department of Transportation engineers want to hear what people think about it....

Two Down, One To Go In City's Bridge Game - 9/10/2003
PARK HILLS - It is two down and one to go in this city's bridge game, but it is not a game being played with a deck of cards. And one player, Councilman Mike Glore, is not playing his cards close to his vest -- he is playing a completely open hand....

5 New Bridges Bring Hope To Depressed Barangays - 9/10/2003
PAMPANGA - Residents in five villages in various 2nd district towns are hopeful that bridges erected by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) would make their daily lives easier....

Fireworks Flare Up Fear In Wake Of Bridge Bomb Scare - 9/10/2003
MICHIGAN - Fireworks meant to cap off a day-long welcome home for returning National Guard troops in Sault, Mich., Saturday night ended up sparking worry in the Canadian Sault just one day after a bomb scare closed the International Bridge....

Collapsed Bridge Cuts Off Kano-jos Road - 9/10/2003
AFRICA - Travellers from Kano State to Plateau and Nasarawa States are now forced to go through Saminaka and Ikara in Kaduna states extending their journey by one hour....

One Killed In Scaffolding Collapse - 9/10/2003
PHILADELPHIA - A 44-year-old Delran man was killed after a construction scaffolding collapse in Camden, New Jersey....

Council Oks Revised Bridge Design - 9/10/2003
MARINETTE - The Marinette City Council has approved the Department of Transportation's design of the new Interstate Bridge along with a revised, more costly design for the slough bridge that links Marinette with Stephenson Island....

Group Fights Bypass Plan - 9/10/2003
MAINE - Opposition to plans for a second Kennebec River bridge and bypass appears to be mounting even as state transportation planners zero in on a location for the roadway....

Bay Bridge Is Engineer's Newest, Biggest Challenge - 9/4/2003
OAKLAND - In her 15th-floor Oakland office, engineer Janet Adams manages the largest and arguably the highest-profile project in Caltrans' history, the $2.9 billion replacement of the Bay Bridge's eastern span....

Angry Protests Follow Bridge Collapse - 9/4/2003
INDIA - Indian police fired tear gas on Friday at an angry crowd that took to streets in the Arabian Sea resort of Daman to protest the deaths of 24 children and an adult after a bridge over a river collapsed, a police official said...

Eight Killed In Daman Bridge Collapse - 9/4/2003
INDIA - Eight school children were killed and 22 people injured after a number of vehicles, including those carrying school children, plunged into swirling waters of Damanganga river following collapse of the bridge connecting Nani Daman and Moti Daman due to heavy rains in the Union Territory of Diu and Daman in south Gujarat today, police said....

Expressway Study Gets Go-ahead - 9/4/2003
FLORIDA - Lee County wants to know whether an expressway linking western Charlotte County to Interstate 75 through Cape Coral makes sense....

Single-lane Bridge Viewed As Top Option - 9/4/2003
ARIZONA - The Hereford Road bridge collapsed April 25 after a cement truck weighing about 67,000 pounds crossed it once, then back tracked after the driver became lost. The bridge, which was designed to hold about 30,000 pounds, fell in the midst of the truck's second pass....

Overpass Problems Surface - 9/4/2003
CALIFORNIA - The $15 million Kansas Avenue-Needham Street overcrossing is nearing completion in Modesto, but how truck traffic is going to get on and off it is in dispute....

Building Bridges - 9/4/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - Gazing out the window of an aeroplane, the importance of bridges to San Francisco becomes obvious, as the view reveals a wealth of man-made links that stitch together the patches of land bordered by water....

Bridge Collapse Killed Man 100 Years Ago - 9/4/2003
CANADA - As he looks down to the murky river, where jets of water flow from the Third Street dam to underneath the bridge, Curle always remembers how it was at this spot, 100 years ago today, that his great-grandfather William Curle was killed in a bridge collapse that changed the city's northern entrance forever....

Council Oks Revised Bridge Design - 9/4/2003
WISCONSIN - The Marinette City Council has approved the Department of Transportation's design of the new Interstate Bridge along with a revised, more costly design...

Thousands Being Asked About Sanibel Causeway - 9/4/2003
FLORIDA - Thousands of Lee County residents are being asked to respond to a survey on how to replace the Sanibel Causeway. But some are wondering what could be the point of responding to a non-scientific and non-binding survey?...

Bridge Design Still Stirring Up Debate - 9/4/2003
FLORIDA - You don't have to be an expert in architecture, engineering or sculpture to have an opinion of the new bridge's aesthetics. Passing motorists looking at 75,000 tons of masonry might think it's a big hunk of concrete. Others would like it to be more dramatic, to make more of a design statement. Still others marvel at its construction and monumental proportions....

Battle Of The Bridge Designs - 9/4/2003
MAINE - The Department of Transportation came down firmly on the side of a cable-stayed replacement for the 72-year-old Waldo-Hancock suspension bridge, but some members of the Project Advisory Committee, a citizen panel working with the agency, have other ideas...

Western Bypass Hits Roadblock - 9/4/2003
MUNCIE - A traffic engineering consultant will recommend widening Nebo Road - and many other routes throughout the county - instead of building a new freeway or expressway around the west side of Muncie....

If Historic Tacoma Bridge Is Saved, Citizens Can Take A Bow - 9/4/2003
TACOMA - "It's always been one of my favorite bridges," DeLony said. "It's a classic, exquisite example of industrialized bridge building." It's special because it is one of a handful of vertical-lift bridges in the West, it was built on an angle to accommodate the different elevations of downtown and the port, and it was designed by J.A.L. Waddell, "the most prominent civil engineer" of the early 20th century....

Cribstone Bridge: Showing Its Age - 9/4/2003
CONNECTICUT - "We're not here to take it down but we need to make sure it's safe."...

Old Bridge, New Effort At Repair - 9/4/2003
MAINE - Residents turned out in force Tuesday night to make it clear they don't want to see the character of the historic Cribstone Bridge changed. But state engineers say the passage of time makes some change inevitable....

Bridge Collapse: Minister To Demand Judicial Probe - 9/4/2003
INDIA - Judicial inquiry into the Daman-Ganga bridge collapse, which claimed 30 lives, will take place and those involved will be dealt with strictly, said Union Minister of State for Law and Justice P C Thomas during his visit to Daman on Wednesday....

Bridge Collapses In Daman, Eight School Children Killed - 9/4/2003
INDIA - At least eight school children were killed when their bus along with some other vehicles fell into the Damanganga river following the collapse of a dilapidated bridge over it in the Union territory of Diu and Daman....

Collapsed N.s. Bridge To Be Replaced By Early November, Government Promises - 9/4/2003
CANADA - Ron Russell, the minister in charge of the department, said the $700,000 project will replace the timber bridge that collapsed earlier this month. A woman narrowly escaped serious injury in the incident....

Yuderi Bailey Bridge Collapses - 9/4/2003
BHUTAN - The Phongmey and Sakten geogs in northern Trashigang have been cut off from its dzongkhag headquarters with the collapse of the Yuderi bailey bridge on the Trashigang - Phongmey road on August 20....

Neglect Of Bridge Led To Daman Tragedy - 9/4/2003
INDIA - Shoddy maintenance and repair work is being blamed for the bridge collapse, which killed at least 26 people, including 21 children, in Daman. The bridge connecting the Nani Daman and Moti Daman collapsed...

Bridge Band-aids - 8/26/2003
USA - CFRP materials can be used as a bandage of sorts, wallpapered on lengths of concrete or wrapped around pillars to strengthen the structure—all with minimal disruptions in traffic....

Proposed Bridge Could Double As Power Generator - 8/26/2003
OHIO - Marietta City Council will support a plan to re-route heavy traffic around city streets by placing a new bridge across the Muskingum River at Ohio 821 near Devola....

Will Santiago Calatrava's High-design Style Work At Ground Zero? - 8/26/2003
NEW YORK - Santiago Calatrava, the 52-year-old Spaniard picked earlier this month to design a big new train and subway station at the World Trade Center site, is a singular figure in the design world: a remarkably inventive architect who's also a civil engineer and a sculptor. But is he a good fit for Ground Zero?...

New Ir Inlet Bridge Unveiled - 8/26/2003
DELAWARE - State transportation officials have unveiled a model of the new Indian River Inlet bridge, a structure they said will rise up and blend in with the seaside landscape and serve as a striking landmark for Delaware's resorts....

Stevens: Knik Arm Bridge And Railroad Expansion Top Priorities - 8/26/2003
ALASKA - Stevens said a bridge is needed because the Anchorage Bowl, bordered by water, military land and mountains, is quickly running out of room to grow....

Adman Pitches Famed Horseshoe Curve As '8th Wonder Of The World' - 8/26/2003
PITTSBURGH - The Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark is named for its shape. It was built using picks, shovels and horses and opened in February 1854 as a way to get trains around a ravine in the Alleghenies. Because the ravine's sides were uneven, a bridge across it would have been too steep for trains to climb, so planners instead sliced the face off a mountain and created the large semicircle where the curve was built....

Bridge Of Lions' Rebirth Nears - 8/26/2003
FLORIDA - Five years after federal officials wanted it reduced to rubble, the 76-year- old Bridge of Lions is heading for a $43 million facelift intended to restore its original beauty....

Port Explores Replacing Almonaster Bridge - 8/26/2003
NEW ORLEANS - If the Port of New Orleans gets its way, the old Almonaster Avenue Bridge will become a relic of the past at the end of this decade....

Railway Plans Renovations - 8/26/2003
NEW YORK - The Staten Island Railway plans to overhaul three of its railroad overpasses beginning sometime next year, work that could permanently disrupt schedules, make trips take longer and possibly eliminate express service to Great Kills, sources say....

Likelihood Of Rust On Bridge Cables First Reported In 1959, Dot Says - 8/26/2003
AUGUSTA - State transportation officials knew of potential rust problems on the supporting cables of the Waldo-Hancock Bridge as early as 1959, but didn't correct the problem, according to a report....

Location Chosen For New Bridge - 8/26/2003
MAINE - The new Waldo-Hancock bridge will be built in close proximity to its 72-year-old predecessor....

Boat Hits Bridge, Flies Over I-77 - 8/26/2003
CHARLOTTE - Davidson police are on the scene of a bizarre accident that happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday when a boat traveling on Lake Norman slammed into the concrete base of a land bridge on I-77 at exit 30....

The Space Elevator: 'thought Experiment', Or Key To The Universe? - 8/26/2003
WASHINGTON - In order to balance the weight of the lower portion, and to compensate for the reaction produced by ascending payloads, the space elevator has to extend far beyond geostationary orbit. The upper portion may be regarded as the mass which keeps the cosmic sling taut, as it whirls round the Earth every 24 h....

Two-vehicle Crash Damages S.e. Iowa Bridge - 8/26/2003
IOWA - Iowa Department of Transportation officials are questioning the structural soundness of a Southeast Iowa bridge after a car and piece of construction equipment collided and damaged the span...

China Pushing Ahead With Railway To Tibet - 8/26/2003
TIBET - China says the project, begun in 2001, will bring unprecedented economic development and opportunity for the long-isolated Himalayan region....

Flawed Highway Bridges To Get Repairs On I-196 - 8/26/2003
MICHIGAN - After nearly 10 months of delay, work will resume on three flawed bridges and ramps connecting the new South Beltline freeway to I-196 just southeast of Hudsonville....

Caltrans Claims Bay Bridge Project 'making History' - 8/26/2003
OAKLAND - Morales noted that when the Bay Bridge opened in 1936 it was the longest bridge in the world. He promised that the new eastern span, which will be 2.18 miles long, "will be one of the safest bridges in the world."...

Vdot Takes 2nd Spin At Mixing Bowl Work - 8/26/2003
VIRGINIA - Project managers overseeing reconstruction of the Capital Beltway's busiest interchange prepared intensely all week, just as they had the week before....

136-year-old Bridge On The Yamuna River Is Still Going Strong - 8/26/2003
DELHI - Even as the monsoon rains create havoc on city roads and flyovers, and buildings constructed recently develop cracks or are collapsing, the 136-year-old bridge on river Yamuna is still going strong....

County Panel Backs Giving Bridge Money To St. Charles - 8/26/2003
CHICAGO - Sticking to the spirit of an 11-year-old agreement, a Kane County board panel decided Friday that $362,000 worth of Fox Mill subdivision building fees should help pay for a future Red Gate Road bridge....

Unr Moves To Forefront Of Quake Research With 3rd Shake Table - 8/12/2003
NEVADA - Civil engineers revved up a new earthquake simulator Tuesday at the University of Nevada, which they say gives the school an unmatched ability in the United States to test innovations key to preparing for the temblors....

Tas Govt Denies Playing Role In Bridge Collapse - 8/12/2003
AUSTRALIA - The Tasmanian Government denies forestry operations have led to the destruction of the Blackwell's Road bridge in the Hellyer Gorge...

Bridge To Get Major Overhaul - 8/12/2003
FLORIDA - A year ago, closure of a segment of the Old Seven Mile Bridge that stretches from Marathon to Pigeon Key appeared imminent....

Bridge's Sidewalk 'should Be Closed' - 8/12/2003
CANADA - The family of a pedestrian killed when an SUV jumped the curb on the Queensborough Bridge wants the bridge's sidewalk closed until road crews can make safety improvements....

Tacoma's Titanic: Galloping Gertie's World Of Wonders - 8/12/2003
TACOMA - Bob Mester figures he's scuba dived onto the ruins of Galloping Gertie - the first bridge across the Tacoma Narrows, blown apart in 1940 - more than 300 times....

Third-generation Trucker Supports 120,000 Pound Limit - 8/12/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - As a third-generation coal truck driver, Tracy Dotson is a staunch supporter of the coal industry, and believes coal is still the future of southern West Virginia....

Willimantic's 'frog Bridge' Wins Beauty Prize - 8/12/2003
CONNECTICUT - An engineer once turned to former Windham First Selectman Walter M. Pawelkiewicz and gawked at the Thread City Bridge, saying, "This either belongs in Paris or in Disney World."...

New Spans: Wider, Sturdier, But Not As Stylish - 8/12/2003
VACAVILLE - And the moderns ones that sometimes replace these historic spans? Utilitarian at best. The concrete walls that serve as railings are often the same type set up for temporary freeway dividers. "They have no aesthetic appeal," Comfort said....

To Build A Bridge, You Must Part The River - 8/12/2003
WISCONSIN - Thirty-five feet deep and holding back the might of the Mississippi River, it is rectangular metal cofferdams that bridge workers use to work below water level. "It's kind of a marvel, something you don't do every day," said Gary Snyder, bridge project supervisor. "For me, it's very exciting being down there. You look up and see blue sky, knowing the water is surrounding you."...

Farmers Theorize Bridges Added To Flooding - 8/12/2003
FORT WAYNE - Adams County farmers whose crops were decimated by the overflowing St. Marys River in July have a theory about why their land flooded so badly....

Woman Left Stranded After Bridge Washes Out - 8/12/2003
OAKVALE - "I had a flashlight and I shined it on the bridge and watched it go," Nelson, 68, said. "The lower point of it looked like it went up, and the higher point went down, and it just went -- just like that....

Mount Rainier Called A Threat - 8/12/2003
SEATTLE - Wedding cake white and big beyond words, Mount Rainier floats above Puget Sound like a child’s dream of what a mountain might be....

Few Measures To Curb Collapse Of Buildings - 8/12/2003
AFRICA - The collapse of the Injaka bridge in Mpumalanga in 1998 killed 14 people, while about 50 people were injured when the Kolonade retail complex collapsed in peak shopping season at the end of 2001. Part of Pretoria's Brooklyn shopping centre collapsed early last year....

Bridge Inspections Under Scrutiny - 8/12/2003
CANADA - Timiskaming MPP David Ramsay says he has been hearing some disturbing reports of warnings about the bridge, including inspection hatches that were painted over....

State Officials Look At Project Here - 8/12/2003
KANSAS - Deb Miller, secretary of transportation with the Kansas Department of Transportation, and state representatives Sharon Schwartz, R-Washington, and Bruce Larkin, D-Baileyville, toured the $45 million overpass, flood control and Union Pacific Railroad relocation project late Tuesday afternoon....

Spanning Time - 8/12/2003
ST. LOUIS - From building a monumental bridge to deepening the channel at New Orleans, James Eads forever changed the face of the Mississippi...

Press Release: Third International Conference On Bridge Design, Construction And Maintenance - 8/6/2003
SHANGHAI - Third in the successful series of international bridge conferences organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Includes a unique technical visit to the Shanghai Lupu Bridge, a steel arch bridge with a span of 530m, the longest in the world of its kind. Conference will take place September 29, 2003....

Bridge Work Still In Limbo - 8/5/2003
CANADA - City officials await word from the Goderich & Exeter Railway about the future of a condemned railway bridge along closed Black Bridge Road....

Dismantling Of Larkspur Trestle Begins - 8/5/2003
CALIFORNIA - Work on the dismantling of a 100-foot section of the historic Larkspur Trestle spanning Sir Francis Drake Boulevard began last night, igniting the ire of some who say the structure should have been saved....

Newspaper Had Difficulty Obtaining Bridge Information - 8/5/2003
PARKERSBURG - When the News and Sentinel started looking into deficient bridges in the Parkersburg area, requests for information were met with roadblocks....

Another Cross-river Bridge Plan Ok'd - 8/5/2003
SHANGHAI - Shanghai will build another bridge alongside the existing Fengpu Bridge, which links Minhang and Fengxian districts on the two banks of the Huangpu River, to provide toll-free and fast cross-river transportation, today's Wen Hui Bao reported....

The Gap Bridging:illinois Has Among The Lowest Number Of Deficient Bridges In Nation - 8/5/2003
DECATUR - Driving along Oakland Avenue at the eastern edge of Decatur, the busy road seems to narrow as it comes to a blind rise over a bean field. Topping the hill, motorists find themselves on a bridge over Interstate 72....

Bridge Upgrade Delayed - 8/5/2003
ARKANSAS - Completion of renovations to the historic R.M. Ruthven Bridge in Cotter may be delayed until sometime early next year according to Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department spokesman Glen Bolick. The project orignally was expected to be finished this year...

Cape Air Bridge Damages Jumbo - 8/5/2003
CAPE TOWN - CAPE Town International Airport's new R12-million air bridges have been taken out of service after one fell on a 747 airliner, damaging the aircraft....

Support Divided On New Muskingum Bridge - 8/5/2003
MARIETTA, OH - As county officials renew interest in the Muskingum River crossing project, residents of Oak Grove and Third Street in Marietta continue to give mixed reactions but agree they don't want to pay more in taxes for it....

Wilson Bridge Job Hinges On Fine Point - 8/5/2003
WASHINGTON - After 11 years of planning, another 11 years of construction and $2.56 billion, the success of the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge project will come down to one-eighth of an inch....

Tall Tail Lands Frontier In A Jam - 8/5/2003
DENVER - New plane might not fit under DIA bridge...

Glitch In Bridge Repair Wrecks Morning Rush - 8/5/2003
NEW JERSEY - Delays in routine road repairs on the Garden State Parkway's Alfred E. Driscoll Bridge triggered a 12-mile backup during yesterday morning's rush hour, prompting state officials to penalize the contractor $20,000 and briefly waive tolls....

Director Warns Of More Bridge Disasters Like Webbers Falls - 8/5/2003
OKLAHOMA - If Oklahoma doesn't get more money to repair the state's bridges the state could have a bridge disaster worse than the one that killed 14 people at Webbers Falls in 2002, Transportation Director Gary Ridley said Monday....

Old Bridges Worry Truckers - 8/5/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - Haulers fear a major setback if old bridges in West Virginia are disallowed in the proposed network of coal hauling roads in 15 counties targeted for an overall maximum weight of 120,000 pounds in a new law....

San Luis Pass Bridge Work More Than Expected - 8/5/2003
GALVESTON - Repairing decades of corrosion on the bridge over San Luis Pass will cost the county about $1 million more than expected....

Underwater Tunnel Could Link Taiwan To Mainland - 8/5/2003
TAIWAN - Mainland Chinese experts said yesterday the best way to build an underwater tunnel between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is to connect Hsinchu with Fukien's Pingtan...

"innovative" Design For Leamouth Bridge Project - 8/5/2003
LONDON - A 'landmark' bridge design is to be made reality in east London, after being chosen for a new crossing to the Lea Peninsula....

Project May Speed Bypass Construction By Five Years - 7/29/2003
ALABAMA - Elected officials and a developer believe they have found a shortcut to speed up construction of a four-lane bypass that would relieve traffic congestion in Helena....

Mdot Hires Designers For New Bridge - 7/29/2003
MAINE - Project Advisory Committee views three possible sites for span...

Csx Sues Deldot, Wilmington Over Bridge Repairs - 7/29/2003
DELAWARE - State and railroad disagree on who should pay for $4.5 million in work needed on 4 structures...

Press Release: Do You Have Limited Space When Installing Bridge Jacks? - 7/29/2003
BRIDGEPORT, CT - Richard Dudgeon, Inc. has designed a new multi-piston 50-ton hydraulic jack specifically for bridge lift (and other heavy structure) applications that have limited clearance between jacking surfaces....

Calera Officials Study Bypass - 7/29/2003
ALABAMA - Fed up with the rumble and dust created by near-constant truck traffic on Alabama 25, Calera officials said they are studying a bypass that would reroute the trucks south of the city center....

State Weighs Bridge Options - 7/29/2003
NORRIDGEWOCK - Efforts to fix the historic but dangerous concrete covered bridge is moving slowly through a laborious federal process designed to balance safety concerns and historic resources....

Bridge Replacement Scheduled - 7/29/2003
NEW JERSEY - Money has been made available to begin replacement of the Buckshutem Road bridge, which links Commercial Township and Millville by crossing a 76-foot span of Laurel Lake....

Park Officials To Crack Down On Kinzua Bridge State Park Looter - 7/29/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Whether seeking souvenirs or scrap metal, people taking wreckage from a massive train bridge that collapsed in a tornado in Western Pennsylvania on Monday will be prosecuted, officials said....

Mayor Urges Politicians To Stop Playing 'football' - 7/29/2003
AUSTRALIA - Bega Valley Shire Mayor Councillor David Hede has called on the State and Federal Governments to stop using the Pambula Bridge as a "political football" and to replace the existing timber structure as a matter of urgency....

Transportation Legislation Passes To Rescue Roads, Bridges - 7/29/2003
OREGON - Over the past few years, Oregon discovered that many of its bridges have deteriorated to the point of causing detours and weight restrictions for heavy trucks -- and more bridges are expected to reach this stage....

Extra Cables Will Reinforce Waldo-hancock Bridge - 7/29/2003
ELLSWORTH, ME - The deteriorating Waldo-Hancock Bridge’s load-bearing capacity will be augmented by the installation of 16 new cables....

Laurel Hill Bridge Work Postponed - 7/29/2003
NORWICH - The Laurel Hill Bridge will not be replaced this year and there is no guarantee construction will start next summer, state Department of Transpiration officials said....

International Building Code Could Cost Dyersburg Jobs - 7/29/2003
TENNESSEE - Their concerns centered around earthquake standards for buildings that would likely increase the cost of residential construction by 10 to 15 percent and commercial or industrial construction by 25 percent or more....

Tas Govt Denies Playing Role In Bridge Collapse - 7/29/2003
AUSTRALIA - The Tasmanian Government denies forestry operations have led to the destruction of the Blackwell's Road bridge in the Hellyer Gorge....

Road Collapse Disrupts Traffic - 7/29/2003
MISSISSIPPI - An unexpected settlement under Interstate 20 has caused the eastbound left lane, where it crosses over McRaven Road, to be closed to traffic. The closure has been stacking up traffic all the way back to Clinton....

Truck Pulls Down Bridge - 7/29/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - Preliminary investigations indicate the dump trailer on the 1994 Peterbuilt was slightly raised, which broke through the bridge's north girders as it began to cross the span. As the truck neared the south end of the bridge, the trailer caught a matching set of girders, which weakened the structural integrity of the bridge enough to cause the collapse, said officials....

Scaffolding Collapse Kills Worker - 7/29/2003
FLORIDA - A bridge construction project claimed a second life and four other workers fell or jumped 50 feet into St. Andrew Bay when a scaffolding collapsed Wednesday....

Bridge Collapse - 7/29/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - A bridge crossing the Muskingum River and Wolf Creek collapsed late Wednesday morning....

More Menangle Rail Bridge 'botch-ups': Mp - 7/29/2003
AUSTRALIA - Newly released State Government documents reveal continuous "botch-ups" in the reopening and repair of the Menangle rail bridge, Southern Highlands MP Peta Seaton said....

Bridge Across Spillway Would Link North, South Shores - 7/22/2003
FAYETTEVILLE - Monday afternoon, Edmonston and the Fayetteville Parks and Recreation Department conducted the third of three public hearings about a proposal to seek a state matching grant to help build a bridge across the spillway, which is at the southern end of the Lake Fayetteville dam....

Folsom, Agencies Buoyed By House Water Vote - 7/22/2003
CALIFORNIA - Folsom officials on Friday cheered a congressional panel's vote in support of a new bridge spanning the American River, and representatives of area water agencies welcomed the prospect of money for water supply and conservation projects....

Report: S.c. Bridges Need Major Repairs - 7/22/2003
SOUTH CAROLINA - A new federal report shows an increasing number of deficient bridges in South Carolina, raising red flags in a state with little money to make necessary repairs, officials say....

Casin' The Caisson: A Piece Of The Narrows Bridge Is Put Into Place - 7/22/2003
TACOMA - Bridge builders fight the tide to tow a caisson into place...

Kew Gardens Interchange Renovation Plans Unveiled - 7/22/2003
NEW YORK - The state Department of Transportation unveiled tentative plans Monday night in the major renovation and construction project slated for the Kew Gardens interchange and its nine bridges on or above the Van Wyck Expressway....

Facelift For Menai Bridge - 7/22/2003
UK - Members of Menai Bridge Town Council say they have been raising concerns about the condition of the Thomas Telford suspension bridge over the Menai Straits for more than ten years....

City Likely To Ok $4m Study Of Interstate 5 Deck - 7/22/2003
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento city officials are expected to approve $4 million in spending this month to explore building a deck over Interstate 5, restoring the connection between downtown and the riverfront south of Tower Bridge....

Probe Into Bridge Disaster - 7/22/2003
JOHANNESBURG - Allegations are being investigated that the 14 victims of the Injaka bridge disaster in Mpumalangda in 1998 died because of negligence of medical personnel....

Plan To Replace 1912 Bridge Draws Opposition - 7/22/2003
OREGON - To the untrained eye, the short, narrow Beaver Creek Bridge on the Historic Columbia River Highway doesn't appear to be much of an engineering or architectural marvel....

Faulty Beam Blamed For Fall - 7/22/2003
OREGON - Despite the unsettling collapse of Wimer Bridge last weekend, state and county officials say they won’t be able to increase inspections or repairs for Oregon’s 51 covered bridges....

Structure's Christening A Big Deal In 1913 - 7/22/2003
TACOMA - On a cool, gray afternoon 90 Februarys ago, 10,000 people showed up for speeches, free punch and military band music to celebrate the opening of the bridge over Thea Foss Waterway. Tacoma's population was 84,000....

11 Towers On The Kinzua Viaduct Collapse Monday - 7/22/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - A section of the Kinzua viaduact that collapsed can be seen near Kushequa, Pa. Tuesday, July 22, 2003, after high winds and storms blew down the center section on Monday afternoon....

Bridge Over The Strait Comes Together - 7/22/2003
CALIFORNIA - A year and half behind schedule and plagued with cost overruns that have nearly tripled the price tag to $904 million, motorists will be happy to hear that contractors finished pile driving in mid-July....

Kinzua Viaduct Seen As Irreplaceable; Tourism Impact Feared - 7/22/2003
PITTSBURGH - Railroad and engineering enthusiasts were mourning the collapse of the Kinzua Viaduct, an engineering marvel that was once the tallest and largest railroad bridge in the world, and wonder if it can — or should — be rebuilt....

Sea-bridge Poses No Danger, Say Mongkut University Researchers - 7/22/2003
BANGKOK - Engineers at King Mongkut University of Technology say the proposed sea-bridge southern bypass would not hurt the local economy or the coastal environment as feared....

Money For Interstate Max Line Approved - 7/22/2003
OREGON - A congressional subcommittee has approved a $69.75 million payment for the next-to-last installment for construction of the 5.8-mile Interstate MAX light-rail line that will open next year in North Portland....

Wash Dot Scales Back Scope, Cost Of Major Highway Projects - 7/22/2003
OLYMPIA - The state Department of Transportation released new cost estimates for major highway improvements around Seattle on Thursday, shaving billions from their cost mostly by scaling down what the projects would tackle....

Fewer Bridges In Tennessee Deficient - 7/9/2003
TENNESSEE - State officials credit 27% drop to increased attentiveness, funding...

Wimer Bridge Collapses, Injuring Man, Twin Boys - 7/9/2003
OREGON - A faulty support beam that was identified during a previous inspection probably caused a covered bridge to collapse during the weekend, injuring a man and his 5-year-old twin grandsons, county officials said after preliminary inspections....

Water Causes Rail Bridge Collapse - 7/9/2003
MISSISSIPPI - High water from Tropical Depression Bill are being blamed for the Tuesday afternoon collapse of a 40-foot railroad span behind the Lake Terrace Convention Center that sent two railroad cars full of steel rods plunging into Mixon's Creek....

Bypass Section Collapses - 7/9/2003
CALIFORNIA - Investigators have begun their probe into the Saturday collapse of an overpass segment of the East Sonora Bypass project...

County's 'deficient' Bridges On Long Waiting List For Repair - 7/9/2003
KANSAS - More traffic, larger vehicles and old age are taking their toll on bridges in Douglas County, threatening to stretch an already tight budget for repairs and replacement....

Derailway Minister Nitish - 7/9/2003
INDIA - With no signs of an end to the nightmare on tracks, the Railways this morning stared at Accident No. 3 in barely two months when a speeding Golconda Express plunged from a Warangal bridge onto a busy road below, killing 18 and causing serious injuries to 32....

Board Oks $1.5 Million For Southside Bridge - 7/9/2003
CALIFORNIA - The San Benito County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.5 million contract with a Sacramento construction company Tuesday to build a new Southside Road bridge....

Flamboyantly Inappropriate For Iraq - 7/9/2003
IRAQ - Mr. Wright proposed a "Butterfly Bridge" over the Tigris River at the Isle of Elena -- or Pig Island, as we called it then....

Companies Ready Pitches For Bridge Deal - 7/9/2003
LOUISVILLE - Two companies competing to manage the $1.9billion Ohio River Bridges Project say they can keep the work on budget and complete it sooner than the 17 years that officials have said will be needed...

Petaluma: Legos Help Build Kids' Enthusiasm For Engineering - 7/9/2003
CALIFORNIA - Seizing a chance to take playing with Legos to a new level, a group of children sprawled on a floor with their newly-built, battery-powered cars....

Making California Earthquake Proof - 7/9/2003
SAN DIEGO - California's officials are wrapping up a seven billion-dollar project to make the state's bridges and freeway ramps earthquake proof....

Bridge Fueling Debate - 7/9/2003
NORTH CAROLINA - The replacement of Bridge 64 over Pungo Creek along N.C. Highway 99 is scheduled for construction in early 2005, but North Carolina Department of Transportation officials are still unsure how that replacement will take place....

Council Says It Wants High-rise Bridge - 7/9/2003
NEW ORLEANS - Offering its opinion on the proposed Florida Avenue bridge, the St. Bernard Parish Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution saying it wants a high-rise bridge with entrances and exits to Paris Road in Chalmette....

Opposition To Bridge Plan Grows - 7/9/2003
NORTH CAROLINA - The Town Council reaffirmed its opposition to the potential closing of the three remaining bridges on N.C. Highway 99 at its regular meeting Monday night and backed up its stance with letters of support from other county agencies...

One-quarter Of U.s. Bridges Remain Deficient - 7/9/2003
WASHINGTON - More than a quarter of all U.S. highway bridges are considered deficient, a high number but a marked improvement after a decade of increased government spending....

Bridge Repairs Put On Hold - 7/9/2003
MASS - Selectmen decided yesterday to hold off on repairs to the Washington Street bridge until fall, hoping the delay will open the possibility for state funding....

Lupu Bridge Marks Construction Breakthroughs - 7/2/2003
SHANGHAI - Construction of the Lupu Bridge, the longest arch bridge in the world, made several breakthroughs in bridge building technique, officials from the Shanghai Science Commission and Shanghai Municipal Engineering Administration Bureau said yesterday....

Warning Signs Went Unheeded - 7/2/2003
STAMFORD - The collapse of a 100-foot section of Interstate 95 North over the Mianus River on June 28, 1983, killed three people, injured three others and focused national attention on bridge and highway safety...

Excellence In Structural Engineering Awards Announced - 7/2/2003
CALIFORNIA - The Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) announces the Year 2003 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards for four San Francisco Bay Area projects....

County Oks Nearly $500,000 For Bridge Projects - 7/2/2003
SAN BENITO COUNTY - The San Benito County Board of Supervisors approved a $444,000 contract for engineering services needed to replace bridges on Lone Tree and Cienega roads....

James Eads Forever Changed The Face Of The Mississippi - 7/2/2003
ST LOUIS - In the mid-19th century, his contemporaries said it would be impossible to build a bridge across the Mississippi River. But James Buchanan Eads–a driven and innovative visionary–would prove them wrong...

More Spent Than Necessary - 7/2/2003
OREGON - The Abernethy Bridge Replacement: There is no doubt that the bridge needed replacement. However, did we need stonework and wrought iron with lighting along the edges?...

Bridge Is Closed To Traffic After Partial Collapse - 7/2/2003
CENTER TWP - The 81-year-old bridge was closed Wednesday afternoon after a portion of the decking broke loose, leaving a 4 foot by 5 foot hole on the east side of the span....

We Need Your Help! - 7/2/2003
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New Airbus Jet Forces $100m Changes At Airport - 7/2/2003
AUSTRALIA - The next generation of passenger planes, the Airbus A380, is so big that Sydney Airport will have to widen its runways and reinforce the bridge over General Holmes Drive to cope with its size....

Date Is Set For New £2.5m Bridge - 7/2/2003
UK - A £2.5 million scheme to demolish and rebuild a bridge over a railway line in Brierley Hill is due to start next week....

What Once Was The Headache Of A Trip To, Through Or Around Marysville, Kan., Is, By Steps, Being Relieved In A Big Way. - 7/2/2003
MARYSVILLE, KAN. - The overpasses, one on U.S. Highway 36 on the north side of town, and one off U.S. Highway 77 on the town's southern end, will span all eight tracks, the Big Blue River (on the U.S. 36 bridge) and Spring Creek (on the U.S. 77 bridge) and a levee being built on both the river and the creek....

Many County Bridges Structurally Deficient - 7/2/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - The study, performed by The Road Information Program, TRIP, investigated high-volume bridges throughout Pennsylvania, ranking the state third in need of bridge repair or replacement. The study also reported that 24 percent of bridges in Sullivan County are structurally deficient and 10 percent are structurally obsolete....

Homestead Bridge Overhaul To Start In 2005 - 7/2/2003
PITTSBURG - Work that will restrict traffic on the Homestead Grays Bridge to a single lane in each direction will take place during the 2005 and 2006 construction seasons, or about two years later than originally planned....

Ice-chunk Death Spurs Move To Install Fences - 7/2/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission on Monday agreed to consider installing fencing on 10 overpasses to protect drivers from falling debris....

'all Aboard' Signal Given - 7/2/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - With the majestic former Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge providing a backdrop, officials said Tuesday the start of engineering means the controversial regional rail plan is going to happen....

Sauvie Island Bridge Site Picked - 7/2/2003
OREGON - Multnomah County will build a new Sauvie Island bridge upstream of the existing bridge, county transportation officials announced Tuesday....

I-95, Rt. 1 Bridge Expansion Plans Advance - 7/2/2003
NEW JERSEY - As work to expand the Interstate 95 bridge over the Delaware River moves forward, the toll bridge commission is also setting its sights on expanding the Route 1 toll bridge....

The Night The Bridge Collapsed: Two Decades Later, Witnesses Recall A Gaping Hole, A Fatal Plunge And A Dramatic Rescue - 7/2/2003
STAMFORD - Albrecht emerged from the boat's cabin and turned to see a tractor-trailer plummet through a gap in the Mianus River bridge...

Allentown Mayor Wants Landmark Bridge - 7/2/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Mayor Roy Afflerbach wants to have a bridge over the Lehigh River that would not only bring an expressway into downtown Allentown but would also serve as an architectural landmark...

Four Foreign Tourists Plunge As Suspension Bridge Collapses - 7/2/2003
BANGAR - Four foreigners suffered injuries yesterday at the Temburong National Park when the suspension bridge they were using to cross a river suddenly collapsed....

$2.5 Million Verdict Overturned - 7/2/2003
CLEVELAND - An appeals court has overturned a $2.5 million jury verdict against a paving company in connection with a 1998 crash that killed the two young sons of a Cleveland couple, according to court records....

New Span Going Over Parkway, Under Greenfield Bridge - 7/2/2003
PITTSBURGH - The city is finally taking action to get ready for a much-needed facelift on the Greenfield Bridge, but WTAE's Ellen Gamble reports that they have to build another span first....

Roads And Bridges In Chechnya - 7/2/2003
CHECHNYA - Chechnya rebuilds its roads, bridges and railroads destroyed in fighting and the floods of summer last year. It is building new ones too. This work is done by Chechen workers, Russian companies, and the engineering units of the Russian forces in the North Caucasus and railway military units....

Bus Roof Crushed In Repeat Of Bridge Crash - 7/2/2003
UK - An investigation is under way after a bus smashed into a low railway bridge in Bath - eight months after an identical incident involving the same double decker. The top of the bus was crushed in the drama at the bridge at the junction of Twerton High Street and Lower Bristol Road....

Don’t Get Caught On The Wrong Side - 7/2/2003
LITTLE ORLEANS - Shirley Stoner looks into the sky and mutters, “Oh well.” She expects that shortly after the rain starts St. Patrick Road will be clogged with traffic....

Mice Can Predict Earthquakes - 6/26/2003
TOKYO - Japanese researchers said on Wednesday they have proved mice act strangely after being exposed to electromagnetism similar to that often monitored ahead of a big earthquake....

Wilson Bridge Spans American History - 6/25/2003
MARYLAND - Washington County's oldest stone bridge has endured a near-demolition from both Mother Nature and a wrecking ball in its 194-year history to remain a standing tribute to the westward expansion of early America....

Forth Bridge Repair Costs 'can't Be Cut' - 6/25/2003
UK - EXPERTS drafted in to investigate whether the spiralling maintenance bill for the Forth Rail Bridge could be reduced have found no way to cut costs....

Millions Sought For Gates Project - 6/25/2003
DENVER - According to the document filed with the city, Cherokee's list of proposed improvements to the site includes $10 million worth of new roads, $8 million in new sewers, $5 million in new electrical and communications utilities, a $14 million pedestrian bridge over South Santa Fe Drive, at least $15 million for environmental cleanup, and $5 million in demolition....

New Bridge Due For Glen - 6/25/2003
CHICAGO - The total cost of the project is estimated at around $4.3 million: roughly $2.3 million for preliminary work, including design, engineering and materials; and $2 million for the actual assembly....

Terrorists On The Brooklyn Bridge? - 6/25/2003
NEW YORK - The day after federal law enforcement officials announced a foiled terrorist plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, Steve Curry laced up his tennis shoes, donned a green windbreaker...

Train Bridge Repair Will Start Sooner Than Expected - 6/25/2003
CONNECTICUT - The project involves the replacement of the Amtrak Railroad bridge over Route 372 on Farmington Avenue....

Plans To Be On Display For $25 Million Bridge Project - 6/25/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - The state Department of Transportation will unveil plans for a new $25 million bridge from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Butler Days Inn along Route 8, just south of Butler....

Residents Take Closer Look At Bridge Project - 6/25/2003
KENT - A committee made up of residents studied the bridge and created the statement for the project. The statement, explained to residents by the City Engineer Gregory Bachman, includes two alternatives for the future of the bridge....

Three Projects Oked For Danube Bridge Ii - 6/25/2003
BULGARIA - Financial donors - the European Commission and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Germany's Credit Institution for Reconstruction, as well as by the Romanian partners, have approved three projects for the construction of a bridge between Bulgarian port of Vidin, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Sofia, and the Romanian port of Calafat on the opposite bank....

A Conspicuous Terror Target Is Called Hard To Topple - 6/25/2003
NEW YORK - Could one terrorist, or even several, armed only with blowtorches actually bring down the Brooklyn Bridge?...

Smart Bricks, Or A Dumb Idea? - 6/20/2003
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - Technological advances often bury quaint vestiges of simpler times. The latest victim may be the old expression, "dumb as a brick." Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a "smart brick" filled with electronic sensors to continuously monitor the structural health of buildings for both routine maintenance and safety in emergencies....

New Bridge To Be Built Over Little River - 6/17/2003
ALABAMA - A new bridge over Little River on State Route 35 at the Cherokee/Dekalb County Line is only in the planning stages, but already some Cherokee County authorities are trying to get the community more involved....

Dam Failure Costs Pegged At $2.1 Million - 6/17/2003
CUMBERLAND COUNTY - Portions of an earthen dam at Hope Mills Lake collapsed after heavy rains over the Memorial Day weekend. A portion part of Lakeview Road and a bridge were washed out, and water spilled downstream into Little Rockfish Creek. Several homes and a business were damaged....

Group Hounds Young Stance On Bridge - 6/17/2003
ALASKA - Taxpayers for Common Sense slapped Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, with a Golden Fleece Award for his advocacy of a bridge near Ketchikan....

Residents Want New Bridge Constructed Next To Old Span - 6/17/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - After listening to numerous residents and considering the impact on traffic, both the Keyser City Council and the Mineral County Commission have decided to back the proposal for Memorial Bridge that would construct a new span adjacent to the existing one....

Bridge To Link Trail Systems - 6/17/2003
CHICAGO - The village also has been approved for funding to cover 70 percent of the cost of the second phase of engineering and 70 percent of funding, not to exceed $1 million, for construction of the bridge, May said....

Pedestrian Walkway Will Span Interstate - 6/17/2003
ILLINOIS - Mayor Bob Utz informed the Effingham City Council Tuesday that the city has received a $510,000 Illinois Transportation Enhancement Project grant for construction of a pedestrian walkway over Interstate 57/70 adjacent to Keller Drive....

A Bridge Too Far Gets Go-ahead - 6/17/2003
AUSTRALIA - A 30-METRE extension to the 244 meter South Alligator River Bridge in the Northern Territory’s Kakadu National Park will ensure Jabiru residents and thousands of tourists do not find themselves stranded in remote Arnhem Land....

Collapse Of Historic Bridge Closes Road Temporarily - 6/17/2003
NEW JERSEY - Instead of pavement, anyone crossing the stone bridge on Old York Road last week could see rushing water from recent heavy rains through a gaping hole in the road....

Historic Keystone Arch Bridge To Get A Facelift - 6/17/2003
IOWA - Tuckpointing, rock replacement, storm drainage projects...

State Seeks $35,000,000 For Bridge Repair - 6/17/2003
MISSISSIPPI - The state has asked the Mississippi Development Bank for $35 million to repair 60 unsafe bridges....

Mississippi River Bridge Won't Get Needed Funding - 6/17/2003
ST LOUIS - The new Mississippi River Bridge project needs $1.3 billion in federal funding to go forward. However, people working on the project say there is no chance of the project getting that amount in the upcoming transportation reauthorization bill....

Ben Gelman: Lincoln Played A Legal Role In The Mississippi Bridge - 6/17/2003
ILLINOIS - The tale begins a century and half ago, in 1853, when the Rock Island Co. started work on a railroad bridge across the Mississippi -- the first such structure across the Father of Waters -- from Rock Island, Illinois, to Davenport, Iowa....

Electric Death Of Boy Still Mystery - 6/17/2003
COLUMBUS - - A breeze brushed the hulking downtown bridge as 9-year-old Willie Wagner crawled under a chain-link fence for a better look at the drowsy Scioto River. He and a friend were dropping stones over the bridge's weathered concrete railing....

Rail Cars Find New Life As Bridges Of Buchanan County - 6/17/2003
IOWA - Buchanan County Engineer Brian Keierleber credits Winnebago and Cerro Gordo county officials and Iowa State University professors with bringing the unique structures to Iowa. They were discovered in Oklahoma eight years ago....

Tiny Space Is Key For Big Bridge - 6/17/2003
MARYLAND - Engineering: The two sides of the $1 billion new draw span across the Potomac must align within an eighth of an inch....

Inspection Will Address Questions About Bridge - 6/10/2003
KENTUCKY - The paint and structural integrity of the Madison-Milton Bridge will be inspected this year, along with all the other bridges that are the responsibility of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, a cabinet spokesman said Friday....

Assembly Rushes Caltrans Bill For Bay Bridge Funds - 6/10/2003
OAKLAND - The Assembly was set to pass an emergency Caltrans bill late Wednesday that would help the agency get competitive bids to build the landmark span of a new Bay Bridge, something that has been in doubt all spring....

Violent Earthquake Could Wreck Golden Gate Span, Report Warns - 6/10/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - The 66-year-old span could fail if there is an earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater on the San Andreas or Hayward faults, the district concluded in its latest status report....

60 Unsafe Bridges On Track For Repairs If $35m Loan Granted - 6/10/2003
MISSISSIPPI - The state could repair 60 unsafe bridges this year — three times as many as normal — if the Mississippi Development Bank approves a $35 million loan....

County Engineer Says More Funding Is Needed For Bridge Projects - 6/10/2003
INDIANA - The number of bridges in the county that need to be replaced or repaired is growing, but Hendricks County Engineer John Ayers' budget isn't....

Webb County Gets Ok To Build Bridge To Mexico - 6/10/2003
TEXAS - Webb County has received initial approval to proceed with its plans to build a fifth international bridge to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, officials announced today....

Dike 'safety Valve' Went Terribly Awry - 6/10/2003
MARQUETTE, MICH - Perched high in the hills about 30 miles west of here, a Wisconsin Public Service-owned dam and its surrounding dike system did a stellar job of holding water in the Silver Lake Basin reservoir for about 90 years. Until the government decided to fix it....

Quake Fear Brings Urgency To Bridge Work - 6/10/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - The Golden Gate Bridge is "at high risk of damage or collapse" if a major earthquake strikes, according to a new report, a stark reminder the region is in a race against time to complete major seismic retrofits on the two spans connecting Marin with the rest of the Bay Area....

China: Engineering Feats Setting Records - 6/10/2003
CHINA - China's Three Gorges hydroelectric project has involved the construction of the world's largest dam and reservoir, but even as the project is set to generate its first electricity, China is embarking on another 10-year project: building the world's longest trans-ocean bridge....

Bridge Won't Get Needed Funding - 6/10/2003
ST LOUIS - The new Mississippi River Bridge project needs $1.3 billion in federal funding to go forward. However, people working on the project say there is no chance of the project getting that amount in the upcoming transportation reauthorization bill....

Fiscal Problems Threaten Future Road Projects - 6/10/2003
ILLINOIS - The state's broke," said Mike Lammey, Kankakee County's transportation planner, after the highway improvement draft was presented to the Metropolitan Planning Organization....

Lack Of Funds Could Delay Parkway Plan - 6/10/2003
AUGUSTA - The second phase of the Interstate 520 extension into South Carolina could be delayed for up to eight years unless the project gets a $143 million infusion of federal money...

Feds Releasing More Money For Hoover Dam Bypass - 6/10/2003
LAS VEGAS - Update) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation tomorrow will release another $6 million dollars for construction of the Hoover Dam bypass bridge....

Venice Hopes Gates Will Turn The Tide - 6/10/2003
ITALY - Last month, the Italian government began construction of a mammoth system of locks designed to stop the flooding. The project's name is Mose -- Italian for Moses, who parted the Red Sea. It's also the abbreviation of the Italian name for the device behind the project, the Experimental Electromechanical Module....

Plans For Bridge Presented - 6/10/2003
EAST FALLOWFIELD - The state transportation department’s plans for rehabbing Speakman No. 1 Covered Bridge that spans the borders of East Fallowfield and West Marlborough were presented to several dozen concerned residents Wednesday easing some worries and leaving others with feelings of distrust....

U.s. 33 Bypass On List For State Funding - 6/4/2003
OHIO - State Department of Transportation officials approved their annual list of road construction priorities on Thursday, extending projects out into 2007 thanks to new gas tax funds....

Collapsed I-80 Bridge Hurting Area Farmers - 6/4/2003
BIG SPRINGS - A bridge collapse that closed Interstate 80 was a temporary inconvenience to travelers over Memorial Day weekend, but area farmers and ranchers who relied on the bridge are still hurting....

New Bridge To Restore Link To Cut-off Region - 6/4/2003
NAIROBI - A 50-metre steel bridge will replace the one washed away by floods recently at Wakor River in West Pokot....

Optimistic About Funds For Bridge - 6/4/2003
AUSTRALIA - Northern Grampians Shire Council is keeping its fingers crossed that the State Government will come to the party and provide funding for a new bridge in Halls Gap....

New Bridge Might Cost About $1.2 Million - 6/4/2003
BIG SPRINGS - The bridge collapse that closed Interstate 80 last month could end up costing taxpayers about one-point-two (m) million dollars....

Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan Agree To Construct "rahgozar" - 6/4/2003
IRAN - Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan have agreed here Monday to sign a draft agreement establishing a road link from Iran to Central Asia via Afghanistan and Uzbekistan....

County Revises Bridge Plans - 6/4/2003
TEWKSBURY - Citizens who wanted to preserve two of the township's one-lane bridges, one on Potterstown Road and the other in the Mountainville section of the township, said they are more satisfied with the county's latest drawings, which call for very narrow two-lane spans, but are still looking for additional compromises....

Reisner's Final Work Depicts Life After 'big One' - 6/4/2003
CALIFORNIA - In "A Dangerous Place," the late Marc Reisner explores in frightening detail the almost inevitable consequences of placing so many people in harm's way. Read this slim but captivating volume about the state's vulnerability to a massive earthquake, and the peril will not lurk just in the back of your mind. It will be front and center, and it will stay there for some time....

Park Hills Council Considers Getting Out Of Bridge Project - 6/4/2003
MISSOURI - It was suggested at a meeting Tuesday evening that the city get out of the Seventh Street bridge project and let the Flat River Special Road District move ahead and get the bridge repaired or replaced....

Fort Myers Beach Official Pushing Coconut Road Bridge Plan - 6/4/2003
FLORIDA - The last time the Coconut Road Bridge was seriously considered, it was being championed by Roland Roberts. Roberts, the last Fort Myers Beach resident to serve as a Lee County commissioner, hasn't been on the commission for 19 years....

Cronyism Charged In Building Of County Roads - 6/4/2003
MONTANA - Yellowstone County's Road and Bridge Department consistently builds roads that are unsafe and substandard, and the department is plagued by "chronic favoritism and cronyism," says County Public Works Director Bill Gibbs....

Bridge Could Go To State - 6/4/2003
FLORIDA - The crumbling, county-owned Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville could be returned to state ownership within the next year or two, increasing the chances the 55-year-old span will be repaired or replaced in the near future, said Rep. Bob Allen, R-Merritt Island....

Getting There: Whole Lotta Shakin' -- But Ship Canal Bridge Is Safe - 6/4/2003
SEATTLE - Not to be a Chicken Little, but Greg Gerhard sees all the heavy trucks around him on Interstate 5's Ship Canal Bridge in Seattle. And he wonders if it's going to fall down....

List Of Brown County Highway, Bridge Projects, 2004-09 - 6/4/2003
WISCONSIN - Here are Brown County’s highway and bridge improvement projects proposed for the next six years. Projects are listed by municipality, county highway, project location, miles, improvement type and total cost. Dollar amounts are rounded....

Middleville: bridge Load Limit May Be Permanent, Maybe Not - 6/4/2003
MICHIGAN - "Inspection shows it's fine; we won't have to build a new bridge in the next year or so, but we probably will in the next five," said village manager Bryan Gruesbeck....

Tractors Get The Ok To Use Parkway - 6/4/2003
KENTUCKY - Little green convoys of tractors are doing something that is perhaps unprecedented: Driving on the Audubon Parkway with the knowledge, permission and aid of state authorities....

Bechtel Says Iraqis To Get Bulk Of Deals - 6/4/2003
BAGHDAD - Bechtel, the US firm given the prime contract to rebuild Iraq, will farm out most sub-contracts to Iraqi firms, not the thousands of foreign ones clamouring for a share, a company executive said on Tuesday....

Sauvie Island Set On Bridge But Not Where To Put It - 6/4/2003
OREGON - A moorage owner says the new Sauvie Island Bridge should be downstream from the existing bridge. A marina president says it should be upstream. And an island landowner says it doesn't matter...

Interstate Bridge Collapse Kills 1, Shuts Down Highway (photos) - 5/27/2003
NEBRASKA - bridge over Interstate 80 collapsed when a semi-trailer slammed into it, killing the driver. The accident shut down a 10-mile stretch of the busy interstate....

Crash Causes Collapse On I-80 - 5/27/2003
NEBRASKA - A tractor-trailer slammed into a bridge support on Interstate 80 in western Nebraska, sending the bridge crashing down onto the truck and killing the driver....

Murtala Mohammed Bridge On The Verge Of Collapse? - 5/27/2003
AFRICA - No fewer than 10 per-sons have died while several others have sustained various degrees of injury since a wide gap was created by structural shifts on the Murtala Mohammed Bridge near Lokoja, the Kogi State capital....

Foster's Bridge Defies Protests To Soar Over French Wilderness - 5/27/2003
FRANCE - That same wilderness will acquire a striking new element this week that can be seen either as the first engineering wonder of the twenty-first century or as a terrible metal and concrete scar that will change the landscape for ever....

Route 205 Bridge Replacements To Go To Hearing - 5/27/2003
WASHINGTON DC - On June 5 the Commonwealth Transportation Board will conduct separate hearings in Lexington and in Suffolk in order to solicit public comment concerning the proposed replacement of Westmoreland's two bridges on State Route 205....

Quake-proofing Costly, Difficult - 5/27/2003
MEMPHIS - Although Memphis already has seismic requirements in its building code, new standards being reviewed by state officials could raise construction costs and bring added federal pressure to retrofit critical facilities, such as schools, fire stations, hospitals, bridges and airports....

Bridge Fix Bids Exceed Estimates - 5/27/2003
OREGON - What was expected to be a $6.4 million Band-Aid to temporarily fix the dilapidating Coos Bay rail bridge will cover far less than originally thought....

Strong Support For Mersey Bridge Proposals - 5/27/2003
UK - More than 100 representatives from a range of public and private sector organisations attended the event at the Liverpool Marriott Hotel South to hear how the Mersey Crossing Group plans to secure the first 21st century estuary bridge....

Ministers Differ On Yallahs Bridge - 5/27/2003
JAMAICA - TWO senior ministers who hold responsibilities for infrastructure and disaster relief seem to differ on what should be the government's response to Saturday's destruction of the seven-month old Bailey bridge over the Yallahs River in St Thomas....

One Year After Bridge Collapse, Many Gather To Remember - 5/27/2003
OKLAHOMA - Interstate traffic over the Arkansas River went on Monday, even as hundreds stopped on a nearby bank to remember 14 people killed when the same span collapsed a year ago....

Span Bid Draws Poker Faces - 5/27/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - As the world's bridge experts gathered last week to mull plans for a new Bay Bridge, they could see, straight across the shallows of the Bay, waterborne cranes where the first part of the job is already under way. But even after Caltrans relaxed provisions on the main contract, it is still unclear whether any builders will pluck the $729 million fruit...

Take A Virtual Tour Of The New S.f.-oakland Bay Bridge - 5/27/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - A California landmark is getting a new look. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge is being retrofitted and updated....

Engineering Work Needed To Prevent Runaway Lahars - Council - 5/27/2003
NEW ZEALAND - It made no sense to pour millions of dollars into strengthening the Tangiwai rail bridge but not spend $150,000 to protect it, he said. The bridge would be "seriously threatened" by the predicted lahar - potentially bigger than the 1953 event that wiped out the previous bridge ad killed more than 150 people....

University Of Michigan Study Helps Define Why Fewer Women Choose Math-based Careers - 5/27/2003
ANN ARBOR - Girls and boys who are confident in their math abilities tend to pick a science career based on their values more than on their skills, a study by two University of Michigan researchers suggests. The study found that both boys and girls who were people-oriented tended to choose college majors in the biological sciences---medicine, environmental sciences or social sciences---rather than the mathematically based sciences such as engineering, physics, or astronomy. It also found that math self-confidence, while stronger in boys than girls, played a much smaller role in the choice of college majors and careers than previously thought....

Glitch Delays Bridge Placement - 5/27/2003
FLORIDA - The pre-constructed Staples Avenue bridge arrived via a flat-bed truck Thursday, but it's not time for the ribbon cutting ceremony yet. An engineering glitch made the foundation too low to support the 35-foot bridge....

Happy Birthday, Brooklyn Bridge (photos) - 5/27/2003
NEW YORK - The Brooklyn Bridge celebrated its 120th birthday on Saturday in a manner that befit its status as an architectural icon and symbol of New York City....

Master Builder - 5/27/2003
US - At only 15, Don Ruffatto is already one of the best bridge designers in the world...

Rail Line Expected To Reopen Soon After Fatal Train Wreck Near Mcbride, B.c. - 5/21/2003
CANADA - CN Rail hoped to reopen its northern line by Friday evening, following a deadly train wreck near this east-central B.C. community....

The Art Of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy On View At Princeton - 5/21/2003
PRINCETON - This spring, the Princeton University Art Museum celebrates the contributions of a group of highly influential Swiss engineers who are widely recognized as the most innovative structural designers of the 20th century in The Art of Structural Design...

Ashland Council Approves Grant To Repair Bridge - 5/21/2003
OHIO - During its Tuesday meeting, City Council approved allocating $87,975 in Community Development Block Grant project money to improving the bridge....

Companies From All Over Seek A Piece Of Action Rebuilding Iraq - 5/21/2003
NEW YORK - The pleas are being lavished mainly on the Bechtel Corporation, which as the lead contractor in the United States-financed rebuilding effort will be dispensing subcontracts for everything from bridge building to port repairs to restoring water supplies....

Exit Foes Appeal I-81 Plan - 5/21/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Construction of another exit on Interstate 81 at Chambersburg has been challenged again in court....

Covered Bridge To Move To Monroe County - 5/21/2003
INDIANA - A bridge to be erected over Bean Blossom Creek in 2005 will be new to Monroe County -- but it won't be new....

Residents Get Look At Bridge Options - 5/21/2003
WEST VIRGINIA - There is “no easy solution” to what will be done to either renovate or replace the Keyser-McCoole bridge, and that is why the West Virginia Division of Highways is now inviting suggestions and comments from the public....

Public Helps Plan New Indian River Span - 5/21/2003
DELAWARE - Arched design for bridge will be presented for community input...

'bridge Trolls' Coming Home - 5/21/2003
WYOMING - The 157 members of the Wyoming Army National Guard 1041st Engineering Company (Assault Float Bridge) based in Rock Springs, Evanston and Afton are returning home, Guard officials announced Tuesday....

Hoover Dam Project Gets International Attention - 5/21/2003
LAS VEGAS - The Hoover Dam Bypass Project is gaining international attention. This week, the leaders of major construction companies from across the country, including Europe, are in town in preparation of bidding on the massive project....

Bridge Design Lands Drury Students Honor - 5/21/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - Some physics students at Drury High School have built an early bridge to success by placing fifth and sixth in the state in a nationwide contest developed by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point....

Board Sees Its Way Clear To Build Glass Bridge - 5/21/2003
ILLINOIS - After countless plan revisions and more than $20,000 spent on a redesign, Mark of the Quad Cities director Steve Hyman is on the verge of getting the all-glass skybridge he envisioned from the beginning....

Official Puts Cost Of Rebuilding Ground Zero At $10 Billion - 5/21/2003
NEW YORK - Rebuilding the World Trade Center site will cost roughly $10 billion, with two-thirds of that paying for the office, cultural and transportation buildings envisioned in the architect Daniel Libeskind's design, a top rebuilding official said yesterday....

Clark Pleads Guilty In Oklahoma Bridge Imposter Case - 5/21/2003
OKLAHOMA - A man who claimed to be an Army captain and took charge of the scene at the Interstate 40 bridge collapse pleaded guilty Friday to impersonating a military officer....

Fatal Mcbride Trestle Collapse Called 'unique' - 5/21/2003
CANADA - In the last three years there have been six main-track derailments just west of McBride, where a rail accident this week claimed the lives of two Prince George men....

Safety Questions Raised After Fatal Train Wreck - 5/21/2003
CANADA - Tough questions are now being raised in Ottawa about the deadly bridge collapse and how the government enforces rail safety....

Bypass, Road-widening Top List Of Priorities - 5/21/2003
YORK COUNTY - A York County transportation planning group Friday approved a list of long-term transportation projects for the county's eastern, urban area....

Bridge Issue Tops Meeting - 5/13/2003
INDIANA - Discussions about the historic Bell Ford Covered Bridge west of Seymour dominated discussions during much of the Jackson County commissioners’ meeting Tuesday morning at the courthouse in Brownstown....

Federal Funds To Cover Cost Of Bridge Reconstruction - 5/13/2003
ROXBURY - Using about $6 million in federal money obtained from the state, Morris County plans to revamp and reconstruct the Landing Road Bridge....

Bridges Detour Money From Roads - 5/13/2003
NEW YORK - The county maintains 410 miles of road, 267 bridges and 256 culverts. Complaining of the poor condition of many county roads, Mr. Ellis said, “We won’t be able to get to the bridges.”...

Closed Bridges Quickly Reopened - 5/13/2003
GEORGIA - It took engineers armed with high technology less than 24 hours to inspect and reopen nearly two dozen bridges closed by flood waters in west Georgia late Thursday. A major bridge on I-85 near the Georgia-Alabama line was reopened within 15 hours....

Loma Linda Secures $4.5m For Bridge - 5/13/2003
LOMA LINDA - The city of Loma Linda has received a $4.5 million federal grant that will help to ease commuter traffic along the Mountain View Avenue bridge....

North Barfield Bridge To Be Redesigned - 5/13/2003
FLORIDA - Construction will cost nearly $1.3 million and does not include engineering costs, landscaping, lighting or the cost of relocating public or private utilities, Ryziw said....

County Approves Bridge Design - 5/13/2003
GEORGIA - Bob Gardner, with the county's engineering department, presented the matter to the Board and recommended that the county shift to using steel span bridges rather that the concrete-intensive culvert design that is most common....

Underpass Dilemma - 5/13/2003
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN - The bicycle path under Causeway Boulevard is often subject to flooding and the buildup of mud left by waves from Lake Pontchartrain. An engineering study offers two options on making the path usable....

Idot Unveils Upcoming Projects - 5/13/2003
ILLINOIS - The Illinois Department of Transportation's 2003-07 road program includes a number of projects for the Sauk Valley area....

Ex-toledo Smelter Recast As Bridge Unit Fabricator - 5/6/2003
TOLEDO - A Toledo industrial site is being used for manufacturing again, this time to make massive concrete sections for the largest construction project in Ohio history....

North Barfield Bridge To Be Redesigned - 5/6/2003
FLORIDA - Construction will cost nearly $1.3 million and does not include engineering costs, landscaping, lighting or the cost of relocating public or private utilities,...

Bypassing Competitive Bidding - 5/6/2003
OREGON - More than $86 million in public projects — from the new $4.6 million Bend police station to the ongoing $10 million construction of a new Jefferson County Jail — have been exempted from state competitive bidding laws in Central Oregon since the mid-1990s...

Professor Lauded For Artful Engineering - 5/6/2003
ZURICH - David P. Billington's passion for Swiss structural engineering focus of exhibit at university art museum....

Randall Road Improvements On State's List - 5/6/2003
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois transportation officials on Monday released a plan of the highway projects that the state hopes to fund in the next five years....

Governor Touts Area Road Projects - 5/6/2003
ILLINOIS - Gov. Rod Blagojevich released his five-year highway transportation budget Monday, which calls for a decrease in current funding but proposes to handle many significant road projects....

Funding For Mcginnis Widening Cloudy - 5/6/2003
GEORGIA - A much needed $30 million project to widen McGinnis Ferry Road remains uncertain as the state Department of Transportation awaits word on funding for the project....

Placing Church Street Extension Bridge Truss A High Drama - 5/6/2003
NEW HAVEN - Hundreds from around the state shirked a good night’s sleep and descended on the city’s Metro-North commuter rail yard, pressing themselves against the chain-link fences lining Union Avenue and Brewery Street....

Half Of Allegheny Bridges In Bad Shape - 5/6/2003
PITTSBURG - More than half of the 1,211 bridges in Allegheny County are structurally deficient or obsolete, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review analysis of federal inspection data....

Readers Say Fix Viaduct, 520 Bridge - 5/6/2003
SEATTLE - This spring, nearly 2,000 Seattle Times readers responded to an invitation to design their own transportation packages for the county, choosing from among 42 options for 29 different freeway, road and transit projects....

System Could Warn Of Earthquakes - 5/6/2003
MILWAUKEE - Scientists have developed an earthquake early-warning system that could give southern Californians a few precious seconds to get under a desk, shut down a commercial operation, get away from dangerous chemicals or high-tail it off a bridge....

Rescuers Search For Survivors After Earthquake In Turkey - 5/6/2003
TURKEY - A bridge and at least 25 buildings collapsed in the center of Bingol, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, Mayor Feyzullah Karaaslan said. Damage could be seen throughout the city, where the streets were filled with terrified residents....

Planned Road Construction Tops $270 Million - 5/6/2003
RENO - More than $270 million worth of major road and highway projects, including the start of a freeway bypass around Pleasant Valley, are planned this summer to help handle growth and the cars that come with it....

Residents Weigh In On New Bridge - 5/2/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - The route is one of seven between Cheswick and Tarentum being considered for the so-called Alle-Kiski Connector bridge. Its estimated price is $150 million....

Design Possibilities Unveiled At Bridge Workshops - 5/2/2003
DELAWARE - Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) planners and designers from Florida-based Figg Engineering presented the designs at two separate public workshops: April 23 in Rehoboth Beach and April 24 in Ocean View....

Roads And Bridges In Chechnya - 5/2/2003
CHECHNYA - Chechnya rebuilds its roads, bridges and railroads destroyed in fighting and the floods of summer last year. It is building new ones too. This work is done by Chechen workers, Russian companies, and the engineering units of the Russian forces in the North Caucasus and railway military units....

Quick Patch Re-opens Crumbling Bridge - 5/2/2003
CONCORD - Public Works Engineer Ken Kalinowski said a quick-dry patching material is in place now so that the bridge can be safety traversed, albeit at a slower rate of speed...

Calatrava Addition Wins National Award (photo) - 5/2/2003
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Art Museum's gravity-defying Calatrava addition has won top honors from the nation's oldest engineering society,...

Bench Connection Would Provide Alternative To Main - 5/2/2003
MONTANA - Officials from a half-dozen public and private agencies have been meeting in recent months to lay the groundwork for the Bench Connection, which is tentatively scheduled for construction in 2006....

Pisgah Bridge Gets Green Light With A Little Help From The County - 5/2/2003
PISGAH - A resolution passed by the Harrison County Board of Supervisors last Thursday gives the green light to the long-awaited Soldier River bridge project at Pisgah....

Rte. 140 Project Is A Green Light - 4/29/2003
MASSACHUSETTS - After 20 years of planning, lobbying and delays, the $20 million reconstruction of Rte. 140 has the green light....

Locals Pressure Senate Panel Over Route 121 Repairs - 4/29/2003
VERMONT - The removal from the state transportation bill of more than $2 million for much-needed renovations to the heavily potholed Route 121 has left local business owners and town officials worried about their economic future....

Town Wants To Replace Entrance Bridge - 4/29/2003
ASPEN, CO - The City Council has endorsed replacing the 115-year-old Maroon Creek Bridge, a project that had become embroiled in a failed effort to make getting into town easier for tourists....

U.s. Soldiers Present An Unusual Birthday Gift To Saddam’s Hometown - 4/29/2003
IRAQ - TIKRIT’S NEW BRIDGE, said to be the longest floating river bridge assembled in a combat theater since World War II, provides a second lane of traffic across the Tigris River....

Commissioners Continue With Bridge Work - 4/29/2003
FLORIDA - The county will move forward with original plans to replace Lost Bridge, following a decision by Miami County Board of Commissioners Monday....

A Never-ending Task: Paying Off The Painters Of The Forth Bridge - 4/29/2003
UK - The rising cost of that never-ending task of drudgery, painting the Forth Bridge, is to be investigated by a team of engineers who want to reduce spending on the iconic Victorian structure....

Politics Blamed In Rush To Build Bridge - 4/29/2003
OAKLAND - Bridge contractors, observers and some Caltrans insiders suggest the ambitious timetable to finish the new Bay Bridge span has less to do with engineering and more to do with prestige and politics....

An Engineer's Dream Job - 4/29/2003
OAKLAND - One month before Caltrans is set to open bids on its most important project, erecting a new Bay Bridge, the world's bridge building experts are saying they want nothing to do with it....

City Discusses New Bridge Concerns - 4/29/2003
DEL RIO - City officials believe questions about Ciudad Acuña’s commitment and an engineering firm’s fees must be resolved as the next steps toward the construction of a second international bridge....

Cellphone Pact Stalls In Tunnel - 4/29/2003
BOSTON - The official name for the new highway underneath Boston may be the Liberty Tunnel, but I've been calling it by a different name: the Chasm of the Dropped Calls....

Shultz Denies Role In Bechtel's Iraq Deal - 4/29/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Secretary of State George Shultz, the imposing, blue-eyed eminence grise of Republican politics, finds himself at the center of an international controversy over his support of the Iraq invasion and the role of San Francisco's Bechtel Group in postwar Iraq....

Army Engineers Work To Restore Tikrit's Lifeline Across The Tigris - 4/29/2003
IRAQ - The bridge over the Tigris River here is somewhat like the Eads and Poplar Street bridges in St. Louis - except for the two gaping holes left by U.S. bombs....

Penndot Probing Charges That Inspectors Are Being Overpaid - 4/29/2003
HARRISBURG - PennDOT has launched a statewide investigation into whether its district offices have systematically overpaid the private inspectors they hire to oversee state road and bridge work....

Amtrak Chief Unveils Five-year Plan - 4/29/2003
WASHINGTON - $8 Billion Sought to Repair Infrastructure, Trains in Northeast...

Veterans Overpass To Be Rebuilt - 4/29/2003
ARIZONA - Construction of a new Veterans Memorial Overpass on South Palo Verde Road will start this fall, and Pima County officials say it will be safer and less confusing for drivers....

County Grants $3.4 Mil To Replace Bridge - 4/29/2003
OREGON - Washington County has given Carter and Company a $3.4 million contract to replace the Tualatin River bridge on Rood Bridge Road south of Hillsboro....

No Location Has Been Decided On Second Bridge From Bullhead To Laughlin - 4/29/2003
NEVADA - Bullhead City officials and the Clark County Public Works Department have gotten together and submitted a request to the U.S. Congress, via Sen. Porter, that would fund a $2 million study that would explore the various locations for the bridge by conducting environmental and engineering studies....

City Invites Public Input On North Barfield Bridge Replacement - 4/29/2003
FLORIDA - Public Works Director Vlad Ryziw will host a community workshop on the city's plans to replace North Barfield Bridge, which spans the Marco River Inlet near Windmill Avenue....

State To Pay $3.4 Million For Rights-of-way Next Year - 4/29/2003
GEORGIA - The state plans to spend $3.4 million next year buying right-of-way for an eventual upgrade of Georgia Highway 316 to an interstate-style limited-access highway, according to a recently completed regional transportation plan....

Metroparks Agrees To Odot Request For Bridge Review - 4/29/2003
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Metroparks will pay an engineering firm $112,000 to check another firm's design of two complex bridges on the Towpath Trail....

Senate Approves $4.2 Billion Transportation Plan - 4/28/2003
OLYMPIA, WA - After more than a decade of inaction and an unequivocal rejection from voters in the fall, the Senate voted Saturday to start fixing the state's congested and crumbling transportation system by raising the sales tax on gasoline by 5 cents a gallon....

County Has No Plans To Re-cover Damaged Bridge - 4/23/2003
WASHINGTON - Unlike many covered bridges, which are made entirely of wood, Wilson-Lawton Bridge rested on an iron frame, which remains structurally sound. The 114-year-old covering structure was moved to the location about 20 years ago when Cross Creek Lake was created....

I-80 Extension Plans Hit Roadblock - 4/23/2003
RENO - A plan to link Interstate 80 at Tracy with U.S. 50 at Silver Springs has run into an obstacle because Lyon County commissioners decided to sell the necessary land to the highest qualified bidder rather than sell directly to the Reno-Tahoe Business Park....

Dot Designs Hwy. 108 Bridge Roundabouts - 4/23/2003
NORTH CAROLINA - The N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a design for roundabouts on the Hwy. 108 bridge that are expected to ease traffic congestion for several years....

Road Fund Is Leaner Than Usual; $225m To Fund 50 Projects - 4/23/2003
NASHVILLE - The state will fund an estimated $225 million in new road projects this year, including nine in counties around Nashville, but the program is leaner than in years past....

Penndot: Gulph Road Bridge Has Outlived Lifespan - 4/23/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - For nearly a century, a stone bridge on Gulph Road in the northern rim of Tredyffrin Township has carried travelers over Trout Run....

Bridge Threatens Village - 4/23/2003
HONG KONG - Tai O's 2,600 villagers agree that would be a shame, but they find themselves perilously close to the likely path of a proposed bridge across the Pearl River Delta that would link Hong Kong with Zhuhai, China, and the formerly Portuguese gambling enclave of Macau....

2 Louisville Bridges Over Ohio To Cost Billions, Take 13 Years - 4/23/2003
LOUISVILLE - Construction on two proposed bridges over the Ohio River could start in about four years and be completed by 2020, highway officials said Wednesday....

Bridge Planners Get Feedback - 4/23/2003
AUGUSTA - If Memorial Bridge is replaced and the two traffic circles reconfigured, engineering designs should be pedestrian-friendly and aesthetically pleasing, residents said Tuesday night...

Florida Bridge With Color And Style - 4/23/2003
DAYTONA BEACH - The Buffalo News today continues it's series on notable bridges, as our community works toward an agreement on what kind of bridge to build across the Niagara River. Daytona Beach, Fla.'s, Broadway Bridge, designed with a marine-life theme and constructed for a relatively modest $37 million....

Turkey Bridge To Be Rebuilt - 4/23/2003
MORRISTOWN - The bridge across Turkey Creek on West First North Street appears on the Tennessee Department of Transportation's "most dangerous bridge list," so it's got to go, according to Morristown Mayor John R. Johnson....

Tappan Zee Bridge's Safety Rating Slips (video) - 4/23/2003
TARRYTOWN - A decline in the Tappan Zee Bridge's safety rating is fueling speculation about what the future of the bridge will hold....

Bridging The Span Of Time - 4/23/2003
SOUTH BEND - Elegant Jefferson bridge has long history...

Modot Helps Fund Umr Bridge Research - 4/23/2003
MISSOURI - Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working with the Missouri Department of Transportation to improve the stability and strength of Missouri bridges. MoDOT recently invested $1.2 million into UMR's research using composites to strengthen bridges....

Jinxed Or Mismanaged? You Decide - 4/23/2003
MUMBAI - This was to be the month when the first of Mumbai’s 20 lakh vehicles zoomed across the city’s spanking new sealink, boldly stretching four kilometres over the Arabian Sea from Bandra to Worli. But with the March 31 deadline gone, and new engineers Dar Consultants drawing up yet another bridge design,...

Iowa Dot To Discuss Replacing, Improving Black Hawk Bridge - 4/23/2003
IOWA - The Iowa Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting Tuesday, April 29, on a two-year feasibility study on improving or replacing the Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River at Lansing....

Cog Puts Rail Line Vote On Hold - 4/23/2003
CALIFORNIA - The Council of San Benito County Governments has postponed a feasibility study for bringing a commuter rail line to Hollister....

U.s. Citizen From Yemen Arrested, Accused Of Videotaping Bridge - 4/23/2003
DETROIT - Elmathil and his 30-year-old neighbor were taken into custody after police and FBI agents accused Elmathil of videotaping the Ambassador Bridge, connecting Detroit and Canada. He was pulled over and arrested by patrol officers Sunday night. Neither has a criminal history, according to state records....

Commissioners Debate Bridge Rehabilitation - 4/23/2003
FLORIDA - Engineering costs to replace Lost Bridge will require a $15,775 supplemental agreement, with no guarantees the Federal Highway Administration would approve the plans, the Miami County Board of Commissioners learned Monday....

Model Man: 1-95 Bridge Rebuilt From Memory - 4/23/2003
PORTSMOUTH - Portillo is an expert model-maker and recently completed a version of the Piscataqua River Bridge, also called the "High-Level" bridge. Portillo has now built two model bridges. Officials of the Iron Workers International Union accepted both of his models for display at the headquarters in Washington, D.C....

Bridge To The Future - 4/15/2003
UK - THE preferred route for one of the 21st Century's first big engineering projects - a second bridge linking Runcorn and Widnes - has been agreed by council bosses....

`it's A Cover-up' - 4/15/2003
AUSTRALIA - NSW Liberal leader John Brogden has called for criminal charges to be levelled against those responsible for keeping Menangle Bridge open despite severe damage to its structure. "For 22 days, the lives of thousands of commuters were put at risk," Mr Brogden said....

Opponents Of Bridge Dispute Claims 4/9 - 4/15/2003
INDIANA - Boone County residents Peter Kunz and Cindy Lamberjack have no plans to step aside and allow a planned $1.7 million Ford Road bridge project without a fight....

Expert: Ontario Bridge A Hazard - 4/15/2003
ONTARIO - After using a pick ax to show the stability of the Rock Road Bridge, and indicating where debris could fall from the 1863 structure, William J. Vermes concluded the bridge is "functionally obsolete."...

Oil Boosters Want New Roads Over Alaska Tundra - 4/15/2003
ALASKA - Governor Frank Murkowski wants the state to build a 123-mile (198-km) road loop connecting Prudhoe Bay,...

Town To Replace Old Village Street Bridge - 4/15/2003
DEEP RIVER - The town will spend up to $600,000 to replace or rehabilitate the old Village Street Bridge spanning a good-sized stream called the Deep River, the town's namesake....

Start-up's Sensors Keep Tabs On Bridges' Health - 4/15/2003
BOSTON - founders of a Waltham start-up company want to change the way bridges are inspected -- again....

Five Options For Third Crossing Of River Don - 4/15/2003
UK - Aberdeen City Council's environment and infrastructure director Dave Gordon outlines five possible routes for a third Don crossing....

Workers Falls In Water; One Drowns - 4/15/2003
CHICAGO - A barge struck a boom holding two bridge inspectors Thursday morning in Blue Island, spinning the boom 180 degrees and throwing the men out of their cage and into the murky depths of the Calumet Sag Channel....

George R. Hermach: Roads And Bridges -- Who Should Pay? - 4/9/2003
OREGON - The general public's cars and pickups had absolutely nothing to do with Oregon's bridge failures. Increased heavy truck weights and speeds had everything to do with this destruction. Therefore, the only fair answer to the second question is that the trucking industry must accept this responsibility....

Move Ahead With Plans To Rebuild, Not Widen, I-94 - 4/9/2003
DETROIT - MDOT announced Friday that it was delaying some major expansion projects until at least 2007, including a $1.3-billion plan to rebuild and widen 7 miles of I-94 between I-96 and Conner. Former Gov. John Engler classified I-94 as an expansion project that required two added lanes. Gov. Jennifer Granholm has wisely frozen expansion projects....

It's Old, Ugly, Rickety - And Absolutely Worth Saving - 4/8/2003
TACOMA - The Murray Morgan Bridge that has linked downtown Tacoma with the Tideflats for 90 years is one of those architectural statements that produces strong feelings....

Road Builders Seek New Ways - 4/8/2003
CINCINNATI - Imagine bridges that last 100 years and road surfaces that last 50 years. Federal highway officials can, as they look for ways to shorten and even eliminate the dreaded summer road construction that plagues drivers everywhere, including the Tristate....

A Bridge Too Frail - 4/8/2003
AUSTRALIA - TRAINS carrying hundreds of passengers still crossed Menangle Bridge despite a risk of catastrophic collapse, it was revealed last week....

Wildlife Fears Over 12-mile Morecambe Bay Bridge Project - 4/8/2003
UK - AMBITIOUS plans to build one of the world’s longest bridges across Morecambe Bay are likely to provoke widespread concern among environmentalists....

Barrier Has A Grim Grandness - 4/8/2003
TORONTO - But who can say that this necessarily grim new monument doesn't suit its environment? It's springtime in Toronto. Don't jump....

Bypass Idea Gets Mixed Response - 4/8/2003
NORWICH - Department of Transportation officials foresee the bypass fitting in with overall improvement plans for Route 2. The state still plans a long disputed Route 2A bypass project that would widen the Mohegan Pequot bridge, bypass Route 2A and widen Route 2 to four lanes....

Public To Get First View Of Area’s Future Road Projects - 4/8/2003
TOLEDO - Four years from now, the Ohio Department of Transportation expects to spend $44 million rehabilitating most of I-75 through central Toledo, including a $23 million re-decking of the DiSalle Bridge....

Funding Will Help Refurbish Bridge - 4/8/2003
OHIO - The Newton Falls Covered Bridge will get some major renovations as early as next summer courtesy of funding from the federal government....

Dot Budgets $77 Million For Bridges - 4/8/2003
HONOLULU - The state wants to spend $77 million in the next two years to replace or upgrade nearly a dozen aging rural bridges, including five along O'ahu's Windward coast....

Collapsed Bridge Leaves Residents Stranded - 4/8/2003
MISSISSIPPI - Flood waters have caused major damage in the metropolitan area. A bridge that collapsed in north east Hinds County has left several families stranded at their homes....

Tear Up I-5 In Seattle, Start Over, Dot Says - 4/8/2003
SEATTLE - First we learned the Alaskan Way Viaduct might collapse in an earthquake. Then we found out the Highway 520 bridge might sink in a big storm. Now this....

Wollongong Uni Bridge Expert Gone To Ground - 4/8/2003
AUSTRALIA - TWO days after the contents of a damming report into the safety of Menangle Bridge became public, the Wollongong academic who wrote the report has gone to ground....

Green Bank Bridge Spans Local History - 4/2/2003
ATLANTIC CITY - - William Walters can remember opening the Green Bank Bridge by hand, with a wooden crank. "I used to run that bridge when I was that high," he said, holding an open hand about waist high....

Skowhegan Officials Say New Bridge Funds Likely - 4/2/2003
MAINE - The state Department of Transportation's proposed work plan for the next two years includes $4 million to continue planning for a second bridge over the Kennebec River in Skowhegan...

Public To Get First View Of Area’s Future Road Projects - 4/2/2003
OHIO - Four years from now, the Ohio Department of Transportation expects to spend $44 million rehabilitating most of I-75 through central Toledo, including a $23 million re-decking of the DiSalle Bridge....

Next Hurdle For La Salle Connector: Money - 4/2/2003
MONTANA - A month after committing to build a proposed connection between La Salle Road and Conrad Drive, the Flathead County commissioners are still wondering how they'll pay for it....

Board Discusses Second Bridge - 4/2/2003
TEXAS - Reserve funds for the construction of a planned second international bridge were discussed during a recent meeting of the city’s international bridge board....

Boston's Big Dig Tunnel Opens - 4/2/2003
BOSTON - Weekday motorists flowed with relative ease through the new tunnel under Boston and over a stunning new bridge for the first time Monday, marking a milestone in the nearly completed $14.6-billion "Big Dig" construction project...

Hntb Lays Off 6.5 Percent Of Work Force, Including 35 In Kc Area - 4/2/2003
KANSAS CITY - "We've been looking at our staffing levels because of a downturn in the infrastructure market," said Scott M. Smith, president of HNTB's central division. "A lot of states are facing budget shortfalls, and a lot of our work is impacted by that."...

One Man Campaigns To Save Bridge - 4/2/2003
NAPA - Despite three years of tilting at a very large windmill -- the $250 million Napa River flood control project -- Al Edmister is still attempting to save the historic First Street bridge over Napa Creek from demolition....

Hsiluo Bridge Celebrates Its 50th Birthday - 4/2/2003
TAIPEI - Although it has been superceded as the main transport link between Changhua County and Yunlin County, the Hsiluo Bridge has retained its place in the hearts of local residents. The bridge, which was completed in 1952, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary as the center of a cultural festival designed to showcase the tourism potential of two of Taiwan's less high-profile counties....

Marcy Bridge Cleanup Begins - 4/2/2003
NEW YORK - The results of tests on the debris could point to what was at fault when the 170-foot-bridge collapsed, killing construction worker Scott Couchman and injuring nine others Oct. 10....

Commissioners Ok Road, Bridge Projects - 4/2/2003
OHIO - Commissioners awarded a $138,679 contract to Page Excavating Inc. of Lucas to replace a deteriorating bridge on Honeytown Road in Franklin Township. They also approved a $31,086 contract for Engineering Associates of Wooster to design plans for the bridge....

Seven Mile Bridge Links History Of Keys In Documentary - 3/26/2003
FLORIDA - And as part of its "Modern Marvels" series, the History Channel is telling the story of the Overseas Highway, which started as the Henry Flagler railroad project people said couldn't be done....

Vigilance -- Order Of Day On Bay - 3/26/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - With the Bay Bridge towering nearby, a Coast Guard homeland security patrol nudged its boat next to a dinghy that appeared a little too close to a bridge piling Tuesday morning....

Seabees Begin Bridge Work Near An Nasiriyah - 3/26/2003
IRAQ - Seabee dump truck drivers, road graders and bridge builders left their desert makeshift camp for this scene of heavy fighting to rebuild a bridge....

State, Feds Will Try To Recover Big Dig Cash - 3/26/2003
BOSTON - Group Will Pursue Reimbursement For Project Overruns...

Tram Edges Closer To Reality - 3/26/2003
OREGON - Today four architecture and engineering teams from New York, Switzerland and Holland will compete head-to-head to design Portland's proposed aerial tram....

Marine Engineers 'ecstatic' About Results Of Exercise With S. Koreans - 3/26/2003
SOUTH KOREA - U.S. and South Korean Marines test a medium girder bridge they've set up during a battlefield engineering exercise near Pohang, South Korea....

Legislators Get A Firsthand Look At Alaskan Way Viaduct Damage - 3/26/2003
SEATTLE - Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and state transportation officials are going to new, creative lengths to raise awareness of the deteriorating condition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct....

For Some, Bridge's Toll Is Too High - 3/26/2003
WASHINGTON DC - With homes close to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge construction site -- a $2.56 billion project not expected to be completed until 2011 -- they complain that dust, noise and mysterious vibrations are robbing them of precious sleep and making their daylight hours extremely unpleasant....

Nothing Old About Design Of Bridge Leading To Meadowcroft Museum - 3/26/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - When Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life reopens Memorial Day weekend, visitors will travel a new bridge to get there, one that may represent a step forward in structural design....

New Malabon-valenzuela Span Eyed - 3/26/2003
MANILA - Lakas Rep. Magtanggol Gunigundo II of Valenzuela City urged the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to maintain the original plan to construct a new bridge that will replace the more than 50-year-old Tullahan Bridge in the boundary of the city and Malabon to prevent flooding and avoid any accident....

Cold Winter Heats Up Confederation Bridge Research - 3/11/2003
CALGARY - The data collection includes observations gathered by video cameras, measurements of the ice forces on the piers and measurements of related data such as the response of the bridge to ice forces, wind speed and direction, air temperature and ice thickness....

County To Replace Narrow Bridge Near Hannibal - 3/11/2003
HANNIBAL - Old bridge does not accommodate larger trucks, school buses...

Expert: Damage Not Visible Prior To Lms Walkway Collapse - 3/11/2003
CHARLOTTE - In the trial against Lowe’s Motor Speedway Tuesday, defense attorneys wasted no time chipping away at the prosecution's case. They targeted prosecution testimony that the collapse of the walkway in May of 2000 could have been prevented...

Sound Transit Considers Tunnel For North Line - 3/11/2003
SEATTLE - The need for a four-mile tunnel, typically the priciest type of construction, raises questions about whether the agency can afford to keep its promise, made to voters in 1996, for light rail to reach the university and beyond....

Public To Get Chance To Review Masontown Bridge Plans - 3/11/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - The public will get its first opportunity to look at the $50 million project to replace the aging Masontown Bridge and upgrade a three-mile stretch of Route 21 between Fayette and Greene Counties during a meeting scheduled for next week....

Bridge Closes For Restoration, Safety - 3/11/2003
ITHICA - Friday's closure was the second time the pedestrian bridge was shut since late December when a resident said they felt the ground shake while plowing it with heavy equipment....

Bridge Collapse: Victim Wants Inquiry - 3/11/2003
AUSTRALIA - Mr Comerford says he has all the evidence needed to prove the State government, the RTA and the NSW legal profession have conspired to cover up the cause of the Wellington Bridge collapse, which has cost more than $1.5 million in legal fees and professional expenditure....

Grout Maker Dropped As Defendant - 3/11/2003
CHARLOTTE - A New Jersey company that makes grout was removed Monday as a defendant in a $27 million lawsuit by a couple injured when a pedestrian walkway collapsed at Lowe's Motor Speedway....

Bridge Tragedy Firm's First Serious Accident - 3/11/2003
ORANGEBURG - The Orangeburg company that employed a man who died after he fell while working on a bridge was fined for several safety violations in the 1990s, records show....

Bridging The Gap - 3/11/2003
KUWAIT - With the morning sun blaring down on them, they waited, staring at each other from 25 meters apart: two teams going head to head in a friendly competition. Suddenly, the roaring sound of "go" breaks the silence in the desert and Marines from Companies A and B with the 8th Engineer Support Battalion, attached to 1st Force Service Support Group, battled each other to determine which company could build a 25-meter, medium girder bridge the fastest....

Load Topples Trailer - 3/11/2003
CALIFORNIA - According to Caltrans public information officer Ann Jones, the driver of the truck was backfilling the abutment at the north end of the bridge when the accident occurred. When the long trailer lifted its dump bed into the air, the dirt failed to slide out, causing the trailer to become top heavy and off balance....

Preservation Board Grills Bridge Experts - 3/11/2003
KENTUCKY - Preservationists shared their concerns about the Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge with transportation officials Wednesday, hoping to get them to conduct more studies....

Glass Bridge Arrived On Time, But $500,000 Still In Question - 3/11/2003
TACOMA - It was a year ago that work restarted on Tacoma's $3.7 million Bridge of Glass after an interruption caused by, well, no one's exactly sure what....

Heavy-haul Trucks Banned From I-5 Bridges - 3/10/2003
OREGON - Many Oregon bridges were constructed with reinforced concrete deck girders as part of the interstate highway system built 40 to 50 years ago. Of 555 state-owned bridges of this type, an ODOT report earlier this year said 487 have developed cracks. The report said fixing deficient bridges will cost $4.7 billion — but not fixing them will cost between $14 billion and $123 billion, and thousands of jobs....

A Cracked Bridge To The Future - 3/10/2003
OREGON - The last thing Oregon needs is another substandard bridge. Yet the Legislature is pouring concrete around a highway funding package that is not strong enough to carry the weight of the state's transportation system into the future....

State Putting Local Bridge Repairs On Fast Track - 3/5/2003
NEW JERSEY - Officials want to streamline permit process and activists fear a reduction in public input...

Bridge Inspections Under Scrutiny - 3/5/2003
CANADA - Timiskaming MPP David Ramsay says he has been hearing some disturbing reports of warnings about the bridge, including inspection hatches that were painted over....

No Easy Target - 3/5/2003
WASHINGTON DC - Before his capture, suspected al-Qaida operations chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed reportedly was plotting a new round of terrorist attacks calling for members of the group to, among other things, bring down high-profile suspension bridges in New York and elsewhere by cutting their cables....

Dot Says Short-term Fix Could Improve Hwy. 108 Bridge Traffic For Several Years - 3/5/2003
TRYON, NC - DOT division engineer Ron Watson says the change will buy some time and allow the state to wait longer before widening or replacing Polk County’s busiest bridge....

West Side Bypass Plan Resurfaces - 3/5/2003
MARYLAND - The Wicomico County Council on Tuesday approved a $7.9 million capital improvements budget for next year's projects, including $150,000 to start planning a new bypass on the city's West Side....

Toothpicks Of Steel - 3/5/2003
WISCONSIN - Bayfield students continue domination of toothpick bridge building contest...

Tribes Oppose Ft. Hamer Bridge - 3/5/2003
FLORIDA - A coalition of 24 American Indian tribes has denounced a proposed bridge at Fort Hamer, because it considers the site a historic link for the Seminole people to the infamous Trail of Tears....

New Bridge At Junction Pt - 3/5/2003
AUSTRALIA - The State Government will fund construction of a new bridge and approaches across Tuena Creek at Junction Point on the Goulburn to Bathurst road, estimated to cost $700,000....

Falling Revenues Put Squeeze On Bridge Plans - 3/5/2003
FLORIDA - But planning ahead, when the Boca Grande Swing Bridge is concerned, could mean expenses of up to $1.4 million. This is a hard figure to face, especially at a time when bridge traffic and projected revenues appear to be declining....

Anger As Demolition Of Forth Bridge Raised - 3/5/2003
EDENBURGH - A LEADING MSP today raised the prospect of demolishing the Forth Bridge in favour of a cheaper substitute because of its soaring upkeep costs....

Design Funds Ok'd For Bruceville Road Bridge - 3/5/2003
EASTON - The Talbot County Council unanimously approved the engineering and design for the bridge, on Bruceville Road northeast of Trappe....

The Spans Of Time: Port Angeles Seeks New Eighth Street Bridge Designs - 3/5/2003
WASHINGTON - The long process has begun for replacing the Eighth Street bridges over Valley and Tumwater creeks. The estimated $15.6 million project could take two construction seasons....

OSE Seeks New Span In Folsom - 2/25/2003
SACRAMENTO - Rep. Doug Ose will introduce legislation today authorizing a new four-lane bridge over the American River as the Friday deadline looms for the closure of a well-used commuter route over Folsom Dam....

Worker Dies In Noyo Bridge Accident - 2/25/2003
CALIFORNIA - An ironworker was killed and a co-worker injured Wednesday morning when a steel reinforcement cage for a concrete column collapsed on a project to replace the aging Noyo Harbor Bridge south of Fort Bragg....

Engineers: Waldo-Hancock Bridge Safe ... For Now - 2/25/2003
MAINE - More than a graceful landmark on the Maine coast, this 72-year-old suspension bridge at the mouth of the Penobscot River provides an economic role, linking Hancock and Washington counties with the rest of the state. That link is more tenuous than once thought, though, according to the Maine Department of Transportation....

Designs For New Indian River Inlet Bridge To Be Discussed - 2/25/2003
DELAWARE - State transportation officials will host a workshop Wednesday to outline how the new Indian River Inlet Bridge will be designed, and to listen to ideas from the public....

Residents Plan To Fight Bridge Project - 2/25/2003
ZIONSVILLE - Gathering on a cold February morning near the site of a planned $1.6 million project to straighten the approaches and strengthen the structure of the small bridge along Ford Road near 96th Street, a group of homeowners attempted to illustrate their opposition of the project....

Bridge Work On Hold - 2/25/2003
MISSISSIPPI - Lincoln County supervisors Tuesday were unable to award a contract for two District 2 bridge replacement projects due to funding restrictions related to the end of the current board term....

Bridge's Future In Question - 2/25/2003
BELLEVUE - Construction of two new bridges over the Missouri River, combined with uncertainty about the future ownership of the Bellevue Bridge, might make the existing bridge superfluous and a candidate for demolition, city and county officials heard recently....

Link From Sicily To Mainland May Be A Bridge Too Far - 2/25/2003
ITALY - Italy's plan for a suspension bridge linking Sicily to the mainland have been put in doubt following a report which says that the structure will be anchored on a shifting seabed....

Bridge Work Shelved - 2/25/2003
WASHINGTON - Plans to begin work on a new Ebey Slough bridge on Highway 529 this summer have been shelved due to lack of money, state transportation officials say....

New Crossing - 2/25/2003
AUSTRALIA - The Mayor of Crookwell, Councillor Brian McCormack has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Roads, the Hon Carl Scully, of funding amount to $700,000 to provide a bridge at the Tuena Creek crossing on the road from Crookwell to Bathurst....

New Bridge Plans Have Long Way To Go - 2/25/2003
SOUTH DAKOTA - After nearly a decade of study, planning and public input, a new bridge at Yankton still has a long way to go before construction would begin in 2006....

Feds Come Through With Bremerton Tunnel Funds - 2/25/2003
OLYMPIA - A federal transportation bill with nearly $16 million in projects for the West Sound is sitting on President Bush's desk awaiting his signature....

Building Bridges Over Troubled Times - 2/25/2003
KUWAIT - As the Marines work, they bark out orders in a language it seems only they understand....

In Toledo, A Bridge Made (partly) Of Glass - 2/25/2003
BUFFALO - The pylon on the cable-stayed bridge will include 200-foot glass panels on all four sides that will reflect light during the day and, at night, will be illuminated by lighting that can change colors....

Lantana Bridge Decision On Tuesday's Agenda - 2/25/2003
FLORIDA - Palm Beach County commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a 12-month, $348,000 contract with EC Driver & Associates to determine the fate of the 102-foot bridge, built in 1950....

Proposals Pitched For Transportation - 2/25/2003
VERMONT - The Douglas administration presented its plans for paving, road construction and other transportation-related spending to lawmakers Monday, but House budget writers had their own ideas about where some of the $356 million should be spent....

Officials To Discuss Indian River Inlet Bridge Design - 2/25/2003
DELAWARE - Delaware transportation officials will host a workshop Wednesday to outline how the new Indian River Inlet Bridge will be designed, and to listen to ideas from the public....

Feds Boost Transportation Projects - 2/25/2003
OLYMPIA - A half-dozen Snohomish County transportation projects get to share about $10 million now that the federal budget for 2003 has finally been adopted....

Lack Of Funding Delays Dam Reconstruction - 2/25/2003
NEW JERSEY - The Lake Lefferts dam was deemed unsafe in 2000 following a statewide crackdown on annual dam inspections. The crackdown occurred after the failure of several New Jersey dams in 1999....

U.s. Soliders Have Bridge-building Race - 2/25/2003
KUWAIT - Master Sgt. Ted Etling gathered team leaders to explain the rules for the bridge-building contest, like a boxing referee standing between the heavyweights....

More Bridge Collapse Suits Filed - 2/25/2003
NEW YORK - Seven lawsuits have been filed against the state and the state Department of Transportation. The suits were filed in the Court of Claims, which handles lawsuits against the state....

Missouri River Bridge's History Spans More Than A Century - 2/25/2003
YANKTON - The Meridian Bridge carries U.S. Highway 81 over the Missouri River and connects Yankton to Cedar County, Neb. The bridge was the first major crossing of the Missouri River in the Yankton area....

180 Oak Ridge Families Stranded By Collapsed Bridge - 2/18/2003
KNOXVILLE - "When it started going it was just a big hole that went 'boom, boom, boom' all the way cross", said Victoria Lenne. She capture the bridge's collapse on home video....

Swiss Support For Suspension Bridges - 2/18/2003
BHUTAN - Nine new suspension and suspended bridges will be constructed in nine dzongkhags within this year according to the suspension bridge division of the department of roads (DOR)....

$230-m Federal Funding Secured For Critical Transportation Projects - 2/18/2003
OLYMPIA - Officials at the Washington State Department of Transportation expressed appreciation to US Senator Patty Murray and US Representative Norm Dicks for securing nearly $230 million in discretionary federal funds to help fund critical transportation projects throughout Washington State....

County Seeks Funding For Railroad Bypass - 2/18/2003
SOUTH DAKOTA - The Hughes County Commission agreed Tuesday morning to send a letter to South Dakota's congressional delegation asking them to put $80 million into a transportation bill for the railroad bypass....

Flooding Could Be An Iraqi Weapon - 2/18/2003
IRAQ - Lt. Matthew K. Massey, a U.S. Marine Corps combat engineer, says he almost laughs when he hears talk about a "desert war" with Iraq. "Maybe it will be more like a water war," he said....

Bad Quake Report For East Coast Rail Bridge - 2/18/2003
NEW ZEALAND - A taxpayer buy-in to the national rail tracks could start in Hawke's Bay, with Tranz Rail confirming it would not repair the Ahuriri rail bridge if, as expected, it did not survive an earthquake....

Railroad Bridge Might Get New Life - 2/18/2003
OREGON - The city is $600,000 closer to turning a retired railroad bridge into a new pedestrian crossing over the Willamette River....

Party Time For A Bridge That Spans Four Decades - 2/18/2003
UK - FOR 40 years it has stood in the shadow of its more photogenic neighbour. Now plans are under way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge, recognising its status as one of the engineering wonders of its age....

Victims File Lawsuits In Bridge Collapse - 2/18/2003
NEW YORK - Poor training and a flawed design contributed to the collapse of pedestrian bridge last fall that killed one man and injured nine other workers, according to two lawsuits filed against the state....

Fight Is On To Save Oldest Bridge - 2/18/2003
UK - HERITAGE campaigners are fighting to save the world's oldest stone railway bridge from the wrecking ball....

Pm To Inaugurate ‘hanging Bridge’ Today - 2/18/2003
KRISHNARAJA PURAM - Said to be the biggest of its kind in the country, every inch of this 1.8 km cable-stayed bridge is a marvel. With a four-lane carriage way and two service lanes, this Rs 45-crore bridge crosses over five railway tracks. The twin-legged pylon, which hold the cables, stands as high as 45 metres above the ground....

State Mum On Bridge Safety - 2/18/2003
KNOXVILLE - Taxpayers aren't allowed to see safety reports on bridges in the state, because Transportation Department officials believe they don't have the expertise to interpret the information....

Who's Checking Safety On Mississippi's Bridges? - 2/18/2003
MISSISSIPPI - As you drive across bridges every day you may wonder, are they safe? The safety of Mississippi bridges has always been an issue, but more so after the collapse of a Wayne County bridge which killed three people last November....

Safety, Funding: Bridging Gap Tough - 2/18/2003
MISSISSIPPI - Nearly a third of Mississippi's county bridges, 3,576 in all, are considered too weak to safely support the school buses, farm trucks and other heavy vehicles that cross them every day....

Bridge Collapse Suits Seek Millions - 2/18/2003
NEW YORK - Two lawsuits totaling more than $80 million have been filed against the state in the aftermath of the Marcy pedestrian bridge collapse....

$3-m Repairs For Stubs Bridge In Spanish Town - 2/18/2003
JAMAICA - THE Stubs Bridge in Spanish Town, St Catherine, which spans the Rio Cobre River and links Spanish Town to Kingston, will be repaired to the tune of $3 million, according to Roger Smith, National Works Agency (NWA) technical services manager....

Dot: Meridian Bridge Top Of Priority List - 2/18/2003
NEBRASKA - State transportation officials say plans to replace Yankton's Meridian Bridge are one of the agency's top priorities....

Road Funding Draws Debate In High Court - 2/4/2003
AUGUSTA - A controversial plan financing highway construction projects that would connect Augusta with other parts of the state is now under scrutiny by Georgia's highest court....

I-75 Bridge Study Funds Dodge Oki - 2/4/2003
KENTUCKY - At some point, it became obvious to regional planners studying transportation needs along Interstate 75 that the aging Brent Spence Bridge would have to undergo major repairs or perhaps even be replaced....

Osha Cites, Fines Contractor For Chas. Crane Collapse - 2/4/2003
SOUTH CAROLINA - A South Carolina contractor has been cited and fined by the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Republic Contracting Corporation was cited Monday for two crane collapses at the company's Maybank Highway Bridge construction site....

Explosion Destroys Bridge, Derails Train - 2/4/2003
GEORGIA - A bridge in western Georgia collapsed today as a train was passing over, causing three tankers filled with oil to fall into a river....

Bridge To Farms Can't Carry Water Trucks - 2/4/2003
AUSTRALIA - Beef producers Wayne Woodlands and Terry Smith and their families are effectively isolated from some services including fuel and water delivery after Hastings Council advised them the timber bridge is not safe for heavy loads....

Magnolia Bridge Options Narrowed - 2/4/2003
SEATTLE - Four options remain for a new Magnolia Bridge under a study conducted by the Seattle Department of Transportation....

Budget Shortages Affect Local Earthquake Network - 2/4/2003
CALIFORNIA - California seismologists say they are in a special position to understand the troubling links between the crash of space shuttle Columbia and NASA's ongoing budget woes....

Ford Road Bridge To Be Replaced, Jan. 29, 2003 - 2/4/2003
INDIANA - With an engineering report in hand and statistics and figures supporting their position, a number of Zionsville area residents came to the Tuesday, Jan. 21, meeting of the Boone County Board of County Commissioners. They were prepared to once again state their case that the Ford Road bridge just north of 96th Street does not need to be replaced....

Now Pigeon-proofed, Paseo Bridge Will Open By Sunday - 2/4/2003
KANSAS CITY - Pigeon droppings had accumulated for decades in a pocket near a key pivot point on one corner of the suspension bridge, corroding the 11-inch pin that was supposed to allow the bridge to flex with traffic. Frozen for years by the corrosion, a plate cracked Jan. 22, forcing the closing of the bridge for repairs....

Experts Say Bridge Safe, Drivers Aren't - 2/4/2003
MONTREAL - Excess speed is blamed for accidents. Stricter enforcement by police is urged after fatal crash on Île aux Tourtes span...

To The Moon In A Space Elevator/bridge? - 2/4/2003
SEATTLE - Long imagined by science-fiction writers but seen by others as hopelessly far-fetched, the space-elevator concept has advanced dramatically in recent years along with leaps forward in the design of carbon nanotubes. Using the lightweight, strong carbon material, it's feasible to talk of building a meter-wide "ribbon" that would start on a mobile ocean platform at the equator, west of Ecuador, and extend 62,000 miles up into space....

Class Grooms Budding Engineers And Scientists - 2/4/2003
OLYMPIA, WA - For this class, building bridges and sail cars or launching rockets are all in a day's lesson....

Bridge Plan Approved - 2/4/2003
OKLAHOMA - A final engineering plan for early construction of bridges that will be part of a relocated Oklahoma City Interstate 40 Crosstown Expressway was unanimously approved Monday by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission....

Rise And Fall Of The 'tubes' - 2/4/2003
NEW YORK - "The Tubes: Rails Under the Hudson, 1874 to the Present-day PATH" is the new exhibit at the Hoboken Historical Museum that delves into the perils, innovation, and spectacle of the sub-aqueous tunnels that commuters pass through every day....

Paseo Bridge To Remain Closed For Repairs After Failure Of Metal Plate - 1/29/2003
KANSAS CITY - The failure of a metal plate -- not a steel pin as originally thought -- caused the 49-year-old bridge to separate from the south approach near Front Street on Wednesday afternoon....

Spi On Signature Campaign For Second Causeway North Of Town - 1/29/2003
TEXAS - Support for a second causeway site north of the existing bridge is divided by the Laguna Madre’s shallow water, with the Port Isabel and South Padre Island officials on polar ends....

31 Bridges In County Obsolete Or In Disrepair - 1/29/2003
WASHINGTON STATE - Thirty-one bridges in Pierce County and hundreds around the state are in disrepair or obsolete, and many may need to be replaced, an analysis of federal inspection records shows....

The Enduring Grip Of Italy's Mafia - 1/29/2003
ITALY - New questions have been raised about the strength of Italy's commitment to fighting organized crime by the controversy over the recent murder conviction of seven-time prime minister Giulio Andreotti, the dominant figure in Italian postwar politics, opportunities for organized crime in the construction of a $5 billion, two-mile-long rail and road bridge connecting Mafia-dominated Sicily to the Italian mainland, and efforts by current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to reform the country's legal system....

Jury Selection Begins In Walkway Collapse Trial - 1/29/2003
ATLANTA - Jury selection began Tuesday in the first civil trial involving people seeking damages for their injuries in the May 2000 walkway collapse at Lowe's Motor Speedway....

New Attraction Coming To Royal Gorge - 1/29/2003
COLORADO - Skycoaster designed to take up to three people more than 1,000 feet above the Royal Gorge will be built in time for the 2004 opening of the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park....

A Growing Concern - 1/29/2003
INDIANA - PROPOSED: A widened and elevated roadway spanning Eagle Creek and the wooded valley where 96th Street abruptly veers north, adjoining Ford Road before heading west below Zionsville....

Neda Ok’s P12.6-b Infrastructure Projects - 1/29/2003
MANILA - The second project, the P2.9-billion Countrywide Bridge Project under the President’s Bridge Program aims to enhance countryside development through the construction of bridges in poor and remote barangays in the 13 regions of the county. It involves the construction of 200 priority local bridges nationwide with a total length of 5,306 lineal meters using modular steel bridging technology....

Tussing Road Bridge Is Collapsing - 1/29/2003
OHIO - The Tussing Road bridge over Blacklick Creek is sinking because of heavy traffic and high water. If the problem doesn't stop -- and soon -- the bridge will be closed until a new one can be built....

Fhwa Unveils New Web Site To Help State, Local Agencies Manage Traffic Congestion - 1/28/2003
WASHINGTON - The new “Congestion and Traffic” Web site – at www.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion – is part of the FHWA’s efforts to help state and local transportation agencies develop initiatives to reduce congestion through effective system management and operations strategies....

New Bay Bridge Web Site Helps Track History In The Making - 1/24/2003
OAKLAND - The California Alliance for Jobs has posted a new web site to track progress on the construction of the new Bay Bridge....

Http://www.sun-herald.com/newsarchive2/012303/tp1ch16.htm?date=012303&story=tp1ch16.htm - 1/23/2003
FLORIDA - Gov. Jeb Bush was asked to sign an emergency order to eliminate the weight limit on trucks so growers can harvest what they can and get it to market before the cold damages the fruit....

Powerful Earthquake Rocks Mexico; 23 Dead - 1/22/2003
MEXICO - A powerful earthquake shook central and western Mexico, killing at least 23 people on the Pacific coast, a death toll that could rise further on Wednesday once the full extent of the damage is revealed....

Causeway Beams To Be Analyzed - 1/21/2003
FLORIDA - The Sanibel causeway is back in one piece after emergency repairs shut down the middle bridge for more than 24 hours. Transportation officials plan to conduct a 2-3 week long inspection of the entire causeway to make sure it won't crack again....

Highway Closed After Bridge Collapses - 1/21/2003
CANADA - ''It's not as if there was an accident,'' Mayor George Lefebvre said Tuesday. ''I'm just looking at it and the roadway ... well, it's dropped four feet.''...

Exploding Fish Threaten Bridge, Highway Projects - 1/21/2003
OAKLAND - The cost of preventing exploding salmon could spell the demise of the new Benicia Bridge or of a major freeway interchange in Hayward....

Making Sure Projects Have A Good Foundations - 1/21/2003
ROANOKE - In Schnabel's central soils-testing laboratory in Blacksburg engineers use samples to determine the behavior of soils, their strength, how much they will settle and how water moves through them....

City Staff: Bridge Planning Should Go Distance - 1/21/2003
COLORADO - City staff strongly recommends the Glenwood Springs City Council not abandon the proposed “south bridge” across the Roaring Fork River, according to a memo from Glenwood Springs City Manager Mike Copp....

Highway Closed In Tacoma After Concrete Falls From 56-year-old Bridge - 1/21/2003
TACOMA - Washington 7 was closed for nearly a day after a piece of concrete half a foot square and a foot long fell onto the road from a historic bridge just east of Interstate 5...

York County Transportation Plan Hits Detour - 1/21/2003
SOUTH CAROLINA - After debating over a bridge and a bypass, a local transportation planning group on Friday delayed adoption of a 20-year transportation plan for York County's urban areas....

Web To Bridge Gap In Iron Horse Trail - 1/21/2003
CALIFORNIA - Internet site allows bicyclists, joggers, moms behind strollers to weigh in on overcrossing plan...

Bridge Mural In Works - 1/21/2003
CALIFORNIA - A three-way effort is under way in Salinas to bring art, color and meaning to a lackluster train bridge over North Main Street by attaching colorful murals to its sides....

Teens Take On Heavy Load - 1/19/2003
OHIO - So fragile that it could be squeezed and smashed in a person's hand and small enough to fit in a shoe box, the bridge Fairchild and Brennan built during Christmas vacation held a pile of metal weights from the athletics department so high that physics teacher Dwight Souder called the whole thing off....

Several Area Bridges Slated For Replacement This Year - 1/19/2003
MICHIGAN - The Macomb County Road Commission is planning to replace 11 bridges in northern Macomb County this year....

Six La Guardia Workers Hurt When Plane Hits Passenger Bridge - 1/19/2003
NEW YORK - Two mechanics were moving the Northwest Airlines Airbus A319 from a parking space to a gate about 6:25 a.m. when the plane struck the loading bridge, causing its landing gear to collapse, according to Kurt Ebenhoch, a spokesman for the airline....

United Front Is Sought For Bridge Project - 1/19/2003
CINCINNATI - The drive to secure $500 million in federal funding to replace or renovate the Brent Spence Bridge continued Wednesday with a strategy session in Cincinnati among top government and business leaders....

Bridge-building Unit's Call-up Shows Need To Cross Euphrates - 1/19/2003
KNOXVILLE - Worried that allied troops will suffer from a bridge not far enough if America invades Iraq, the Pentagon this week called to active duty a small National Guard engineering unit from rural Alabama....

Tussing Bridge Is Falling Down - 1/19/2003
OHIO - The middle support piling for Tussing Road Bridge, the most traveled bridge in the county, has been sinking and may cause the bridge to be closed for repairs....

Bridge's Fate Sparks Larger Debate - 1/19/2003
INDIANA - Sumava Resorts may have its own improvement club, but the town that is nudged up along the Kankakee River isn't necessarily about change....

Congestion Killing Interstates, Report Says - 1/19/2003
WASHINGTON - A new report from a national transportation research group says that America's interstate highways are increasingly congested because new travel is rapidly outpacing existing capacity and eroding the system's safety and economic benefits....

Old Bridge Needs Money For Assembly - 1/19/2003
TUSCALOOSA - Old Bull Slough was to become a historic addition to Northport, but Richard Powell, Northport city engineer, said plans to restore and relocate the bridge wouldn’t proceed until funding is allocated for it....

Bridge Failure Forces Detours In North (photo) - 1/19/2003
ONTARIO - The partial collapse of a bridge Tuesday afternoon on one of the major highways in northeastern Ontario could cause months of major detours for traffic....

Txdot To Install Warning System On Causeway - 1/19/2003
TEXAS - The Texas Department of Transportation will install a warning system on the Queen Isabella Causeway and provide significant protection to a vulnerable spot in response to the Sept. 15, 2001, partial collapse of the causeway that claimed eight lives, state officials announced Wednesday....

Tawa Bridge Ruined Due To Officials' Apathy - 1/19/2003
HOSHANGABAD - Tawa bridge, constructed almost 16 years back, is in a dilapidat- ed state, due to the PWD officials' apathy, which poses great threat to the citizens' lives....

Second Quake In 5 Days Rattles Westchester - 1/19/2003
NEW YORK - Many residents experienced the Friday quake as a deep, resonating explosion, while the one on Tuesday night felt more like a rumble, according to police officers in Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Greenburgh, Irvington and Ardsley who fielded scores of calls from nervous residents....

Maxwell Bridge Replacement May Survive Budget Crisis - 1/19/2003
CALIFORNIA - A stunningly low bid this week to build a replacement Maxwell Bridge may improve the project's chances of surviving the state budget crisis....

Tay Bridge Disaster Caused By The 'millennium Wobble' - 1/19/2003
UK - The fault that caused London's Millennium footbridge to wobble has been blamed for the worst structural engineering failure in British history....

Mega-bridge To Sicily Is Approved - 1/19/2003
ITALY - Italy inched forward Tuesday toward its goal of building the world's longest suspension bridge to link the island of Sicily to the mainland -- a project critics say is inviting disaster....

State Sues City Over Bridge Repair Bill - 1/19/2003
TEXAS - The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the city of Galveston claiming it is responsible for repaying nearly $200,000 for roadway and bridge repairs caused by a 2001 waterline rupture....

Clash Of Titans Over Bay Bridge Deal - 1/19/2003
CALIFORNIA - A huge, politically connected California contractor poised to win a $180 million state contract to work on the Bay Bridge is receiving new scrutiny about a fraudulent-claims verdict in Los Angeles and a city of San Francisco lawsuit accusing the company of behavior that is "immoral, unscrupulous and offends public policy."...

Leaders Look To Solve Future Traffic Problems - 1/15/2003
CALIFORNIA - One long-term project calls for constructing a bridge over the Mojave River on Apple Valley's Yucca Loma Road to connect it to Nisqualli Road in Victorville, which will eventually link to Interstate 15....

Expressway Go-ahead ... In 7 Years - 1/15/2003
NEW ZEALAND - The $135 million downtown Tauranga expressway has passed its first planning hurdle but it could be another seven years before completion....

Proposed Galveston Bridge Concerns Environmentalists - 1/15/2003
GALVESTON - Environmentalists are concerned a proposed bridge that would link Galveston to the Bolivar Peninsula would disturb natural habitats in the area and increase pollution levels....

Repairing The State's Roads, Bridges Gets A New Priority - 1/15/2003
VIRGINIA - Standing before a newly rehabilitated bridge on Route 2 in Arlington, Governor Mitt Romney yesterday announced a potentially sweeping shift in funding state transportation projects, with more emphasis placed on fixing ailing infrastructure than on expanding road capacity....

Overloaded Truck Sparks Furore - 1/15/2003
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa's judiciary came under scathing attack after a truck driver, whose vehicle carried an overload of 50 tons of cobalt, was fined only R2 000. The law provides for a fine of up to R120 00, or six years in prison, for such a severe offence....

Bridge Can Be Saved, Octa Told - 1/15/2003
CALIFORNIA - A crack-plagued $12 million bridge linking the Costa Mesa and San Diego freeways won't have to be torn down but instead can be salvaged, Orange County transportation officials were told Thursday....

Pile-driving To Begin Despite Fish-kill Fears - 1/15/2003
CALIFORNIA - California Fish and Game Commissioner James Kellogg of Concord brokered an agreement that permits the contractor and Caltrans to begin pile driving and to test cheaper fish-protection methods....

Emergency Declared To Replace Os Bridge - 1/15/2003
MISSISSIPPI - The supervisors Monday declared an emergency to replace the bridge after receiving a report from engineering consultants Batson and Brown that weight restrictions on the bridge and the nearby Shearwater Drive bridge prevented emergency vehicles from reaching homes in the area....

Great Bridge Bridge On Track As Funds Stall - 1/15/2003
MAINE - After years of promises and artist renderings, drivers in Great Bridge finally have evidence that a new five-lane bridge will someday replace the old two-lane bottleneck....

Bridge Planned For Indian Wells - 1/15/2003
CALIFORNIA - A new bridge will more efficiently link the newest residents of Indian Wells with the center of town....

New Bridge Decks Showing Problems - 1/15/2003
SALT LAKE CITY - Just two to four years after rebuilding nearly 130 bridges in the fast-track Interstate 15 reconstruction, some of the new decks are showing cracking....

Floodwall Will Get More Study - 1/10/2003
INDIANA - A proposed Wheeling Avenue promenade needs more study and possibly more money, according to Muncie's Board of Public Works and Safety....

Hearings Support Mon Bridge Plan - 1/10/2003
PITTSBURGH - The tunnel to nowhere through Mt. Washington is going somewhere after all — and its destination may be Downtown, via a bridge that has been 14 years in the planning....

I-75/71 Bridge May Be Replaced - 1/10/2003
KENTUCKY - It's been kicked around by highway engineers, studied a little by consultants and lobbied for by civic leaders, but the possible replacement of the Brent Spence Bridge is about to get a lot more attention....

City Plans Bridge Over Alcoa Highway - 1/10/2003
TENNESSEE - The bridge, which Johnson said will be ``architecturally pleasing,'' is in the design phase, and will be ``one of the neatest things, as far as a landmark for Alcoa, that we've had in a long, long time,'' Johnson said....

Warmer Climate Creates Engineering Challenges - 1/10/2003
ALASKA - Alaska's warming climate is creating new challenges for state crews grappling with damage to road surfaces, bridges and channels....

Fixes Help Burnside Bridge Take Tremors - 1/10/2003
OREGON - As nine months of construction came to a quiet end this month, the Burnside Bridge became the first and only one of Multnomah County's six Willamette River bridges to be strengthened against damage from a major earthquake with a Portland epicenter....

Birth Of A New Bay Bridge (photo) - 1/10/2003
SAN FRANCISCO - Construction of a new Bay Bridge is about to get a lot noisier and more visible...

End Of The Historic Road As Nebraska Highway 38 Goes Off The Map - 1/10/2003
NEBRASKA - The state highway that followed Center Street and West Center Road for 11 miles through Omaha was the only state highway in Nebraska whose length was completely within the boundaries of a city....

Parkway Design Trashed - 1/10/2003
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Two city-hired consultants ripped the Broad Street Parkway apart, calling it “deficient,” “overkill” and “not in character” with neighborhoods....

Funding For U.s. 58 Program Falls Short - 1/8/2003
VIRGINIA - Following a review of the Route 58 corridor development program, the Virginia Department of Transportation has identified a funding shortfall of $272 million....

Driver Injured, Cited In Bridge Collapse - 1/8/2003
ARKANSAS - A small bridge over Bull Creek in White County collapsed Monday under the weight of a truck hauling building supplies....

State Sees Money At The Pump - 1/8/2003
OHIO - As state officials look for ways to increase the amount spent on road construction and repair, a state task force has targeted the state gas tax and vehicle paperwork fees for future increases....

Relics Of Bethlehem Steel Face Possible Demolition - 1/8/2003
PENNSYLVANIA - Bethlehem Steel -- or, simply, "Steel" to the surrounding city of 69,000 -- stopped all work at its headquarters plant in 1998. It was offered a $1.5 billion buyout Monday by International Steel Group to bring the industrial giant out of the bankruptcy protection it filed for in 2001....

Kc Aligns With Rural Missouri Over Road Funding Proposals - 1/8/2003
KANSAS CITY - The Department of Transportation's new proposals on how to divide road funds between urban and rural areas are pitting Kansas City and outstate Missouri against St. Louis....

Memorial Set For Victims Of I-40 Bridge Collapse - 1/8/2003
TULSA - A 14-foot-tall memorial will honor the 14 victims of last year's Interstate 40 bridge collapse at Webbers Falls....

World's Tallest Tower To Produce Energy From Desert - 1/8/2003
AUSTRALIA - Australia's merciless sunshine is about to be harnessed to produce massive amounts of renewable energy. As part of the process, the tallest man-made structure built, a one-kilometre-tall tower, will rise from the red desert in the south-west of New South Wales....

Leaders Present Transporation Alternatives To State - 1/8/2003
MISSOURI - Local business and civic leaders testified before the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission Monday proposing two alternative plans to the proposed $45 million in spending cuts for local highway and bridge projects....

Engineers Seek New Solution For Plumsted Twp. Bridge Problem - 1/8/2003
OCEAN COUNTY - "We have never encountered a soil so dense," said Ocean County Engineer Ronald Lotrecchio. "To drive a wooden pile through this, it is just not happening."...

Second River Crossing To Be Discussed With Minister - 1/8/2003
AUSTRALIA - THE possibility of constructing a second river crossing in Kempsey will be discussed later this month at a meeting between representatives of the Kempsey Shire Council and the minister for Transport, Mr Carl Scully....

Architects Call Tram Design A Plum - 1/8/2003
OREGON - Four up-and-coming firms that span the globe have been selected as finalists in the competition to design an aerial tram to run between Oregon Health & Science University and the North Macadam District....

Light-rail Extension Study Proposed - 1/8/2003
PHOENIX - A proposal to extend the Valley's light rail system another five miles is the focus of a study the Phoenix City Council is expected to approve this week....

7-year Traffic Budget Revealed - 1/8/2003
SHANGHAI - The Shanghai government announced yesterday it will invest 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion) over the next seven years on a series of new roads, many of which are already under construction....

Wang's Black Bridge Could Be Unsafe - 1/8/2003
AUSTRALIA - The 'black bridge' spanning the railway line at Wallerawang has been the subject of repeated criticism for more than half a century because of its obvious inadequacies....

Bluff Bridge Divides Public - 1/8/2003
TEXAS - Hundreds of Flour Bluff residents have split public opinion on whether the city should replace or remove a bridge on Laguna Shores Road, which runs north and south alongside the Laguna Madre....

Council Approves Rebuilding First Street Bridge - 1/8/2003
NORTH DAKOTA - After two months of discussion and debate about locating a bridge across the James River, the Jamestown City Council approved Monday rebuilding a bridge at First Street West....

Bridge Estimate Increases - 1/1/2003
ILLINOIS - Design work is continuing on the new Mississippi River bridge project, which is now expected to cost $1.3 billion, an increase from projections of $1 billion that transportation leaders previously had given....

State Selects Figg Engineering For New Inlet Bridge - 1/1/2003
DELAWARE - A committee headed by Secretary of Transportation Nathan Hayward III chose Tallahassee, Florida-based Figg En-gineering to design a new bridge over the Indian River Inlet, Governor Ruth Ann Minner announced Dec. 23....

Carmenita Bridge Project May Be Delayed - 1/1/2003
PASADENA - The concerns focus on Gov. Gray Davis' proposal to cut $1.8 billion in state transportation funds. That would eliminate $71 million allocated for the Carmenita Road bridge-widening project, local officials said....

Mississippi River Bridge Plans Aesthetically Pleasing - 1/1/2003
ARKANSAS - Designers working on the Great River Bridge that will span the Mississippi River in northeast Arkansas are looking to aesthetics as well as function....

Civic Investment Hits Record - 1/1/2003
CHINA - The city government announced yesterday that investment in major municipal construction projects this year reached a record 50 billion yuan (US$6.02 billion), an increase of 8 percent from a year earlier....

2003's Big Fight: Highway Dollars - California Looks For Larger Share Of Billions Allocated By Congress - 1/1/2003
CALIFORNIA - As the jockeying begins anew over a program that provided states with $217 billion the past six years for transportation projects, motorists should hold on to their wallets. Even though President Bush is an avowed tax-cutter, some key Republicans in Congress have joined highway and transit advocates to urge an increase in the 18.3-cents-a-gallon federal tax to pay for a more ambitious construction and repair program....

Road Expansion Inevitable - 1/1/2003
SOUTH CAROLINA - The growth of South Carolina's economy and population has relied and will continue to rely heavily on the development of its transportation infrastructure....

Task Force Proposes Gas Tax - 1/1/2003
OHIO - The state needs more money for roads, and Ohioans may soon be providing it at the gas pump and the BMV. As state officials look for ways to increase the amount spent on road construction and repair, a state task force has targeted the state gas tax and vehicle paperwork fees for future increases....

Brown County Eliminates Special Bridge Department - 1/1/2003
KANSAS - The move meant that the department's foreman -- James Schumacher, a Brown County employee since 1983 -- lost his job. The department's two remaining employees were to be transferred to the county's road and bridge department....

Vdot's New Boss Aims For Renaissance - 1/1/2003
VIRGINIA - With a mandate from Gov. Mark Warner to make VDOT credible to Virginians and manage its money responsibly, Shucet's first act as commissioner signaled a sea change in Virginia's arguably most criticized agency....

New Interchange Gains Federal Nod - 1/1/2003
ARKANSAS - City leaders are a step closer to getting a new Interstate 540 exit ramp after federal highway officials gave the initial go-ahead, developer Bill Schwyhart said Friday....

Barks Road Overpass On Tap - 1/1/2003
OHIO - Where traffic backs up on Barks Road today, a new, multi-million dollar railroad overpass will boost drivers over the tracks in about two years....

Bridge Plan Concerns Goose Shoals Residents - 1/1/2003
ALABAMA - Some residents of the Goose Shoals area are concerned about how a raised roadbed leading to a new bridge will affect the flow of water in Shoal Creek and the surrounding landscape....

Old Seven Mile Bridge Repair Estimates Expected Soon - 1/1/2003
FLORIDA - The cost of keeping the bridge open long term has been under speculation, with estimates ranging from $10 million to $60 million. But Neugent said repair costs should not exceed $19 million....

Uneven Track Set Off Tay Bridge Disaster - 1/1/2003
UK - A reappraisal of Britain’s worst structural failure, which claimed 75 lives, has also concluded that the railway bridge had been in an even more dangerous state than previously thought....

Canaan Span In Line For Rebuilding - 1/1/2003
MAINE - A construction project that would improve the safety of a dangerous bridge over Carrabassett Stream could begin this summer, according to state officials....

Obsolete And Over Capacity,brent Spence Bridge Is Nearly Out Of Time - 1/1/2003
CINCINNATI - Time's running out on the Brent Spence Bridge, a key in the nation's interstate system and one of the Tristate's most important pieces of transportation infrastructure....

Will Chamberlain's Picturesque Bridge Get A New Look? - 12/25/2002
SOUTH DAKOTA - SD DOT holds informational meeting to get input on Highway 16 bridge. Will the old bridge lose it's historic look? This was one of the many questions on the minds of folks who attended the informational meeting held at Cedar Shore Resort last Tuesday evening...

Route For I-69 Narrows - 12/25/2002
LOUISIANA - Officials to reveal ''preferred corridor'' for so-called NAFTA Highway next week...

Partners For Progress: Cooperation Drives Success In Tough Economy For Transportation Projects - 12/23/2002
ST LOUIS - St. Charles County -- collar county to St. Louis and among the top two percent of the fastest-growing areas in the United States -- has been a model for innovative and efficient local funding methods to finance transportation projects....

Holding Breath For Transit Funding - 12/23/2002
WASHINGTON STATE - The City Council directed staff members this week to pursue funding for three top projects -- the Vasco Road-Interstate 580 interchange upgrade; the Interstate 580 High-Occupancy Vehicle (car pool) lanes; and the Highway 84 improvements south of Livermore between Isabel Avenue and Interstate 580....

Bridge On First Street Favored Over Third Street - 12/23/2002
JAMESTOWN ND - Near the end of the meeting Thursday at City Hall, several residents asked if anyone present was in favor of the Third Street bridge. No one said yes....

Bridge Closed, Inspections Ordered - 12/23/2002
NWSHOBA COUNTY - Citing safety concerns, particularly for school buses, the Board of Supervisors closed a bridge on County Road 303 Monday until repairs can be made and at the same time ordered the inspection of all other bridges less than 20 feet....

Loan To Help Fund Bridge Repair - 12/23/2002
MISSISSIPPI - Mississippi officials will borrow $25 million to shore up efforts to repair unstable bridges throughout the state's 82 counties....

Bridge Was Victory For The People - 12/23/2002
UK - BUILDING the Orwell Bridge was a triumph for local people over central government bureaucracy - that's the view of the man who more than 30 years ago was at the forefront of lobbying Whitehall for the cash and who also helped plan the growth of Suffolk....

Hauling A Long Load (photo) - 12/23/2002
JAMESTOWN - Three large concrete and steel bridge beams make their way down First Avenue Friday on their way to the U.S. Highway 52/281 bypass construction project near Jamestown. Each structure is approximately 125 feet long and weighs about 120,000 pounds....

State's Covered Bridges In Disrepair - 12/23/2002
MASS - "It's criminal what they are doing to covered bridges of Massachusetts,'' Bill Coli, a selectman in Charlemont, told The Boston Globe...

Tacoma Overpass Reopens After Fire - 12/23/2002
TACOMA - Inspectors examined the state Route 509 overpass at the Tacoma Tideflats yesterday to determine whether a spectacular rail-car tanker fire had damaged the structure, including the taut steel cables that help support it....

Putting Beams Into Place (photo) - 12/23/2002
JAMESTOWN, ND - Two cranes manuever a large bridge beam into place Monday on the U.S. Highway 52/281 bypass construction project near Jamestown. The 60-ton concrete structure is about 125 feet in length....

Dot, Town See 2 Ends Of Bridge Issue - 12/23/2002
ORLANDO - The state Department of Transportation plans to widen U.S. Highway 27/441 over County Road 25 in about 10 years from two to four lanes, but an alternate plan would get rid of the bridge altogether, which would add new frontage property and a busy new intersection with C.R. 25....

In A Blink, It's Gone (photo, Video) - 12/23/2002
FLORIDA - Bridge builder PCL Constructors takes down a section of the new Memorial Causeway Bridge that was damaged recently....

Four Bridges Will Be Replaced - 12/17/2002
LINCOLN COUNTY - Four bridges are slated for replacement as part of two projects approved by Lincoln County supervisors Monday....

County Pondering How To Cope With Funding Crunch - 12/17/2002
KANSAS - Other proposed cuts -- including reductions in funding from the LAVTR and city/county highway fund -- would not affect the county's budget for 2002, but they would have a substantial impact on the budget for 2003....

Bridge To Be Moved To Reservoir - 12/17/2002
MONTANA - After a century spanning the Jefferson River, the Silver Star Bridge will be moved to Milltown Reservoir on Wednesday for what Bruce Hall hopes will be a second century on the Clark Fork River....

Seattle Wants Road Money For Light Rail - 12/17/2002
SEATTLE - Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels wants $1.3 billion for Link light rail to Northgate, and to get the cash, he has asked to rewrite the state law that gave Puget Sound counties power to improve and widen their freeways....

Bridge Collapses, Truck Falls Into Creek (video) - 12/17/2002
OHIO - "I was coming back across, and it sounded like a shotgun going off, a big pow," McAlister said. "Then the truck just started going over."...

Grenada Bridges Get Good Report From State - 12/17/2002
MISSISSIPPI - Officials in 63 Mississippi counties have been told to close more than 300 bridges for repair or face possible loss of state funding, but Grenada County bridges are in good shape....

Inspection Area Urged In Canada - 12/17/2002
BUFFALO - The region's largest business advocacy group wants a new bridge at the existing Peace Bridge corridor site but prefers that all of the inspection stations and other administrative facilities be located on the Canadian side of the border....

Bridge To Island Too Tough, Too Costly - 12/17/2002
CANADA - Cost-effective technology to build a bridge linking Vancouver Island with the mainland is not yet available, says a Transportation Ministry report....

Bridge Collapse Kills 7, Injures 12 In China - 12/17/2002
CHINA - The bridge, which was under construction, crumbled when more than 20 workers were pouring concrete onto one of its supporting arches on Saturday, the Shanghai Morning Post reported....

Bridge Study: More Motorists Use Bridge With Higher Speeds - 12/17/2002
LOUISIANA - Traffic on a proposed route for a fourth Ouachita River bridge would carry more vehicles each day if the speed limit on the road were increased to 65 miles per hour...

Fish Creek Bridge Cost Soars - 12/17/2002
CANADA - Although the $33.3 million project was described as a "Cadillac" by some members of council, most believed a bridge 90 metres longer than the 180-metre version initially proposed would be friendlier to the fragile Fish Creek environment....

Rep. Bridges Wants More Bridges - 12/17/2002
ALABAMA - In a recent talk at the City of Valley Senior Center, Rep. Bridges said he saw as two high priority items the construction of a four-lane bridge over I-85 between Valley and Huguley and a new, wider bridge over Osanippa Creek on Highway 29 next to Givorns in Valley....

5-year Road And Bridge Work Plan Wins Iowa Dot Approval - 12/15/2002
IOWA - The Iowa Transportation Commission has approved a five-year plan for road and bridge construction that delays about $100 million in projects because of budget shortfalls....

Town Planning Attack On Erosion - 12/15/2002
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Studies have determined that the east side of the creek, just south of the bridge, and the west side of the stream bank, north of the bridge, should be stabilized with sheet piling. Much of the rest of the creek could be stabilized with rock riprap....

Blackford To Get Two New Bridges - 12/15/2002
INDIANA - Blackford County will see the construction of two new bridges next summer....

Partnership Reflects On Why It Lost Road Vote - 12/15/2002
VIRGINIA - Business and municipal leaders acknowledged Friday that they stumbled badly in their effort to win taxpayer support on Nov. 5 for funding regional transportation projects....

Lawyer Asked Cleanup On Marcy Bridge Be Halted - 12/15/2002
UTICA - State Supreme Court Justice Robert Julian issued the temporary order Thursday to the Department of Transportation "preventing anyone from doing any type of work or testing at the site due to several pending lawsuits," DOT spokeswoman Melissa Carlson has said....

Bridge Future Looks Shaky - 12/15/2002
KANSAS CITY - The Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge is not salvageable. That was the word from members of the Kansas and Missouri departments of transportation at a public meeting Thursday afternoon at the Atchison Heritage Conference Center....

Bridges, Battlebots Help Youths Build Interest In Engineering - 12/15/2002
KENTUCKY - Adam Richey knew that the model bridge he and two other students made with about 800 Popsicle sticks could withstand a significant amount of weight without breaking....

Major Cedar Rapids Road Closed By Cracked Bridge - 12/15/2002
IOWA - A regular bridge inspection on Wednesday found fatigue cracks in the two long main steel beams supporting the bridge deck, prompting the closure at 3:30 p.m....

Old Barrington Bridge Bound For Umass - 12/15/2002
BERKSHIRE, MA - The university, on learning that the lenticular bridge had been replaced by the town, asked that the structure be donated to the engineering campus, as an example of a historically significant bridge construction style....

Federal Funds Available To Help With Bridge Fixes - 12/15/2002
ILLINOIS - There are holes in the bridge and the concrete edges are breaking off, he said....

Jolley Bridge Not Top Priority At State Among Collier Projects - 12/15/2002
FLORIDA - It will probably be five years before Marco Island's primary link to the mainland is widened....

Planners Weighing 6-lane, 8-lane Bridge - 12/15/2002
SEATTLE - The number of minutes some commuters spend in their cars crossing Lake Washington would triple if a new Highway 520 bridge is expanded to eight lanes instead of to six, state planners said yesterday. And under the eight-lane option, planners said, drivers could face bridge tolls of more than a dollar to pay for a new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge....

City, County Panels To Meet On Road Plans - 12/15/2002
KENTUCKY - Here is what the county's list looks like, ranked in order of importance:...

Reality For Viaduct May Be Retrofit - 12/15/2002
SEATTLE - A new element has been added to the discussion of what to do about the earthquake-crippled Alaskan Way Viaduct. That element is reality. It's a grim reality, made so by the abysmal failure of Referendum 51 and the close but convincing success of Initiative 776. Both dashed hopes for state funding for any grand transportation improvements....

After Defeat Of Road Plan, Call Goes Out: What Now? - 12/15/2002
VIRGINIA - South Hampton Roads residents, including those who resoundingly defeated last month's transportation referendum, will get a chance Monday to speak out on what the region should do instead to fight traffic congestion over the next two decades....

Structure Problems Shut Down Bridge - 12/15/2002
OREGON - City officials shut down the South Shore Boulevard bridge over Oswego Canal Tuesday, detouring traffic indefinitely while engineers assess damage to the 65-year-old span....

Bridge Plan Faces Battle - 12/10/2002
TEXAS - A proposed toll bridge to replace the ferries that link Galveston Island to the Bolivar Peninsula is generating a legal squabble even before initial drawings have been completed....

Design-build Final Rule - 12/10/2002
WASHINGTON DC - The Federal Highway Administration published a final rule in the December 10, 2002 Federal Register to implement regulations for design-build contracting as mandated by Section 1307(c) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). The regulation allows, but does not require, the use of design-build contracting procedures....

Publication Honors Natcher Bridge - 12/10/2002
KENTUCKY - The new William H. Natcher Bridge near Owensboro has been recognized as one of the nation's Top 10 new bridges by Roads&Bridges magazine, a trade publication read by engineers, contractors and transportation officials....

I-66 Study Focuses On Routes That Bypass Cape And Illinois - 12/10/2002
MISSOURI - A study of a proposed Interstate 66 that would link Southeast Missouri and western Kentucky is focusing largely on possible routes that would bypass Cape Girardeau and Southern Illinois....

Sen. Bond To Seek Input On Roads Across Missouri - 12/10/2002
MISSOURI - Missouri is poised to receive a better share of federal money for road improvements and construction with Sen. Kit Bond's leadership as chairman of a Senate subcommittee on transportation....

Fort Pitt Bridge And Tunnel Project's Total Cost Is $226.4 Million - 12/10/2002
PITTSBURG - What's in a price tag? Perspective _ and a difference of $142.2 million _ if the tag is dangling from Pittsburgh's Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel reconstruction project. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has commonly cited $84.2 million as the cost of refurbishing the inbound and outbound bridge and tunnel that links downtown Pittsburgh to the city's southern suburbs via Interstate 279....

Two Bridges Damaged In Quake Must Be Replaced - 12/10/2002
ALASKA - Two bridges damaged by last month's power Denali earthquake must be replaced and four others must be repaired, but state officials say the bridges are in good enough shape to make it through the winter....

Earthquake Continues To Keep Scientists Busy - 12/10/2002
ALASKA - Many Alaskans now have a vivid memory of where they were on Sunday, Nov. 3, when the world's largest earthquake so far in 2002 rocked the state. Many Alaska scientists will remember the weeks after as a blur of activity....

Ecological Concerns Could Halt Work On New Sh1 Bridge - 12/10/2002
NEW ZEALAND - The two-lane bridge, which will cross the mouth of the ecologically sensitive Pauatahanui Inlet alongside the existing bridge, is part of a $42 million road-widening project to speed up traffic flow through Mana and Plimmerton, just north of Wellington....

Highway Building Is Expected To Boom Next Year, Then Fall Off - 12/10/2002
ST LOUIS - The outlook for highway construction in 2003 is bright, but will dim considerably after that. Funding for airports as well as for light rail and other mass transit will continue to rise. So says the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, a century-old trade group based in Washington....

Internet Bidding For Highway Construction Projects - 12/10/2002
WASHINGTON DC - PURPOSE. To provide guidance for using electronic Internet bidding in transportation construction projects, specifically the software/hardware applications based on the technology available, identify the benefits to State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and bidders (contractors), address implementation issues, the linkage to electronic bid bond, and Internet electronic plan drawings....

Yorkville Looks To The East For Bridge Site - 12/7/2002
CHICAGO - The City Council on Tuesday will consider funding a feasibility study that would examine the possibility of a bridge over the Fox River on the future extension of Countryside Parkway...

Belfry Bridge Unloved - 12/7/2002
MONTANA - Nobody wants the Allen Bridge, an 80-year-old truss bridge that spans the Clarks Fork River south of Belfry. The Montana Department of Transportation put the call out last fall, asking if anyone wanted to adopt the bridge and either move it or leave it in place, but be responsible maintaining its historical character in either case....

Reality Of Pink Slips Hits State Employees - 12/7/2002
CONNECTICUT - Hundreds of state workers, some with more than 20 years of experience, learned Friday morning that they would lose their jobs. Gov. John G. Rowland cut 2,834 jobs to help cover this year's budget deficit, estimated at $500 million....

Approval For Bridges Plan Delayed - 12/7/2002
KENTUCKY - A decision on where to build two bridges over the Ohio River to connect Jefferson County and Southern Indiana has been pushed back to August, three to four months later than originally planned....

I-66 Project To Be Raised At Gathering In Sikeston - 12/7/2002
MISSOURI - Kentucky has embarked on a $500,000 study to determine the best route for a new interstate highway through western Kentucky. The Missouri Department of Transportation is providing $50,000 and may give as much as $100,000 toward the study, which is scheduled to be completed in May....

I-4 Soapbox Is Coming Down - 12/7/2002
ORLANDO - During the past 40 years, the pedestrian bridge hasbeen a popular place to hang campaign slogans, marriage proposals and other signs directed at the 150,000 cars that pass beneath it daily. Road crews will tear down the bridge to make room for the highway's widening...

Tiny Bridges Test Builders - 12/7/2002
NEW YORK - With the crack of breaking wood, the little bridge shattered into pieces, scraps flying everywhere. The bucket of sand dangling from it smacked to the floor....

Opinions Aired At Bridge Hearing - 12/7/2002
SOUTH DAKOTA - Nebraska and South Dakota highway officials will have many opinions to consider as they move forward in planning a new Yankton Meridian Bridge....

Planners Weigh Memorial Bridge Upgrade Options - 12/7/2002
MAINE - If Memorial Bridge is unable to support three or four travel lanes, engineers are prepared to build a new bridge down river to accommodate the expected surge in Augusta's traffic over the next 50 years....

Council Won't Revisit Bridge Decision - 12/7/2002
IOWA - The Council voted 4-3 in September to replace the bridge, and spend close to $400,000 to construct a two-lane, concrete bridge with an adjoining pedestrian path....

Bridge Collapse Report Contained Errors - 12/7/2002
ALBANY, NY - A state Labor Department report that cleared the state transportation officials of any wrongdoing in a deadly pedestrian bridge collapse contained "some inaccuracies," a transportation department spokeswoman said Tuesday....

Bridge Program May Be Less Than Hoped - 12/7/2002
NOVA SCOTIA - Transportation Minister Ron Russell says the aggressive bridge-replacement program he announced hours after a bridge collapse at Petite Riviere last week may be less ambitious than he had hoped....

Interstate Highway System Selected Montana's Top Transportation Infrastructure Project Of 20th Century - 12/5/2002
WASHINGTON, DC - Montana's Interstate System has been selected as the state's top transportation infrastructure project of the 20th century by the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). Former engineers Louis Chittim and John Morrison were also named the state's top public officials for their work in transportation development....

Commissioners Kill Plan For Martindale Bridge - 12/3/2002
TEXAS - A proposal to span the San Marcos River in Martindale may have ended Tuesday when the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to oppose the new bridge....

Dot Hears Bypass Concerns - 12/3/2002
NORTH CAROLINA - Officials from the North Carolina Department of Transportation assured the business owners and residents who filled the city's auditorium Monday that, while there was little chance of changing the 1989 law that mandates the bypass, their concerns about access roads will receive attention....

County Will Build Bridge First, Worry About Paying Later - 12/3/2002
BELMOND - Goldfield Mayor Rick Rasmussen, Wright County Engineer Stephen Reitz, and the Wright County Board of Supervisors met November 25 to discuss the bridge replacement project in Goldfield....

Two Weeks To Fix Bombed Bridge - 12/3/2002
AFRICA - Repairs to the damaged Umtamvuna Bridge in Port Edward will take two weeks to complete from the day it starts, engineers said on Monday....

Ticket Issued After Bridge Collapses - 12/3/2002
NOVA SCOTIA - A truck driver has been ticketed and accused of causing a bridge to collapse on Nova Scotia's south shore....

Council To Consider Bridge-funding Plan - 12/3/2002
CALIFORNIA - Redding can afford a new Cypress Avenue span across the Sacramento River if it puts off another bridge planned to ease congestion on that same street....

New Bridge Tops On Agenda For The Leadership Council - 12/3/2002
ST LOUIS - The Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council has named the construction of a new Mississippi River bridge as the top legislative priority for Governor-elect Rod Blagojevich....

Transportation: No Relief - 12/3/2002
FLORIDA - If motorists are tired of constant stops and starts as they creep across the aging Mathews Bridge from downtown to Arlington during rush hour, they might as well get used to it. There will be no relief any time soon...

County To Revisit Bridge-naming Requirements - 12/3/2002
TENNESSEE - Throughout Carter County signs have been erected on bridges in memorial to citizens who have made significant contributions to the community. The process of how those bridges are named has recently come under review by the Carter County highway committee....

Ferndale Seeks To Dismantle A Bridge - 12/3/2002
DETROIT - With state engineers poised to begin work next year, Ferndale has started a last-ditch effort to kill plans for rebuilding a motoring landmark....

Area Officials Try To Save Historic Span - 12/3/2002
PENNSYLVANIA - A century ago, the Wells Creek Bollman Bridge carried locomotives chugging through Maryland on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Today, the 131-year-old iron structure sits near a Somerset County farm, closed to all traffic. State officials say this bridge to nowhere must be torn down....

Mps Pave Way For Tauranga To Build Toll Roads, Second Bridge - 12/3/2002
NEW ZEALAND - The prospect of motorists paying tolls on Tauranga roads has moved a step closer as the Government drives through its new land transport laws....

Wessels Remembered For Helping Save Talmadge Bridge Funding - 12/1/2002
SAVANNA - Charles Wessels, a Savannah attorney, businessman and former legislator who helped to engineer funding at a key juncture for a new Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge, died Wednesday. He was 62....

Earthquake Fault Zones Increase On Latest Maps - 12/1/2002
CALIFORNIA - The state has issued the results of recent seismic studies that show previously unmapped earthquake fault zones in downtown San Diego and Coronado....

Transportation Minister Promises Replacement Program - 12/1/2002
NOVA SCOTIA - Hours after an old steel bridge tumbled into Petite Riviere yesterday, Transportation Minister Ron Russell announced he wants to replace every Victorian-era span in the province....

Harbour Bridge 'too Hard A Target' - 12/1/2002
SYDNEY - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is under 24-hour guard, but an engineer said today it was one of Sydney's least vulnerable targets....

Plaque Commemorates Victoria Bridge, 'world's Eighth Wonder' - 12/1/2002
CANADA - The first bridge to link Montreal to the South Shore was commemorated by the Sites and Monuments Board of Canada with a plaque yesterday that recognizes the importance of the Victoria Tubular Bridge....

State Urged To Support Bridge Project - 12/1/2002
MISSISSIPPI - When state lawmakers started the Local Systems Bridge Program in the mid-1990s, they promised millions of dollars to counties across the state. But the full amount never materialized and supervisors need to remind state legislators of their pledge or risk losing the ability to fix bridges in dangerous disrepair....

Bridge Lawsuits Hinge On Liability - 12/1/2002
OKLAHOMA - Civil litigation in last spring’s collapse of an Interstate 40 bridge hit by barges will revolve around a petition to limit the liability of the towboat owner, the company’s attorney said Tuesday. "That’s the focal point," Magnolia Marine Transport Inc. ’s attorney Joel Henderson said from his Greenville, Miss., office Tuesday....

White Extremists Suspected Of South African Bridge Bombing - 12/1/2002
AFRICA - powerful explosion damaged a bridge leading to a South African coastal resort yesterday, raising more fears in a country already troubled by a spate of attacks blamed on white right-wing extremists....

The Mixing Bowl Fiasco - 12/1/2002
VIRGINIA - A major reason why Northern Virginians rejected the tax-increase referendum for transportation Nov. 5 is the state's recent history of project delays, cost overruns and squandered taxpayer dollars on road projects. For example, much-delayed Wilson Bridge improvements are way over budget....

Dot Set To Unveil Road Plan - 12/1/2002
MAINE - The six-year state transportation plan scheduled to be unveiled Monday night includes many projects in central Maine that would upgrade older roads to modern design standards....

A Penny For The Bridge? - 12/1/2002
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate Bridge officials are hoping the hordes of visitors who meander across the landmark span's footpath to gawk at Pacific Ocean sunsets or videotape San Francisco's skyline next year will be inspired to generosity....

A Long Walk On A Short Toll Bridge - 12/1/2002
FLORIDA - Few proposals have caused as much wailing and gnashing of teeth in recent months as the bridge-toll flag run up the pole by the Escambia-Santa Rosa Regional Transportation Authority. Not only is no one saluting, the shrapnel from all the pot-shots people are taking is so thick you could walk on it. That poor flag has more holes in it than a wool blanket at a moth convention....

Shrimp Muddy Up Plans For Highway 12 Upgrades - 12/1/2002
CALIFORNIA - -- Making the Highway 12 "blood alley" between Suisun City and Rio Vista safer without hurting rare, federally protected shrimp is a balancing act....

Boom On Truck Appears To Be Cause Of Nova Scotia Bridge Collapse - 12/1/2002
NOVA SCOTIA - The accident happened around 2:30 p.m. Thursday as a five-tonne boom truck started to cross the bridge. The truck fell sideways as the bridge collapsed and ended up partially submerged in the river....

A Bridge To The Past - 8/13/2002
PARKER COUNTY - here is an interesting but little known story in Parker County about a little old bridge, an historic road and a very famous lady....

Golden Gate Bridge Threat Alert Reduced - 8/12/2002
SAN FRANCISCO - A terror alert for the Golden Gate Bridge was downgraded Monday as state officials discounted a threat against the historic span....

Commissioners, Modot Meet To Go Over Bridge Paperwork - 8/12/2002
MISSOURI - The Newton County Commissioners, along with the county engineer, met with representatives of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) Thursday to make sure all the paperwork was in place for the design of several county bridges to continue....

Rural Vermont Road Gets High-tech Bridge - 8/12/2002
VERMONT - It's not a political slogan, but an actual bridge, reinforced with plastic and o