One month after it opened, the Salesforce Transit Center complex has shut down in downtown San Francisco, as engineers examine a crack in a steel beam. San Francisco officials have temporarily shut down the city's huge new transit center after a crack was…
HNTB Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Public Transportation Should Receive Government Funding
Public transportation funding support transcends every age group and geographic region in the nation, including urban, suburban and rural communities…
Gannett Fleming Selected as Prime for Five NCDOT Divisions
(Raleigh, NC)- Global infrastructure and engineering firm Gannett Fleming announced that it will serve as a prime consultant for five North Carolina…
Thornton Tomasetti Volunteers Help Build Bridge in Panama
As part of the firm’s TT Gives Back initiative, a team of 10 Thornton Tomasetti engineers from six offices recently traveled to Boca de Lura in Panama’s Coclé Province for an international service mission, partnering with Bridges to Prosperity to help…
NCDOT Video of I-40 Flooded After Hurricane Florence
The North Carolina Division of Aviation shot drone footage of a flooded I-40 near Mile Marker 387 on Monday. (North Carolina Division of Aviation via Storyful North Carolina Division of Aviation via Storyful North Carolina Division of Aviation via Storyful)
GPA Approves $92M Rail Expansion
SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) moved 375,833 Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit containers (TEUs) in August, an 8 percent increase over August 2017. In addition, the GPA handled 86,200 intermodal TEUs, a 33 percent jump. "A strengthening…
Hawaii DOT Battles Yet Another Tropical Storm
While still working to fix the damage caused by Hurricane Lane in late August, the Hawaii Department of Transportation is now preparing to handle the impact of Tropical Storm Olivia, which made landfall on Sept. 12. The agency said in a pre-storm statement…
State DOTs Respond as Hurricane Florence hits East Coast
Though downgraded to a Category 2 storm before making landfall, the 100 mph-plus winds and heavy rains generated by Hurricane Florence were expected to affect five states along the U.S. east coast: North and South Carolina in particular, along with parts of…
FRA Announces $46.3 Million in PTC Grant Funding
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration announced today Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for at least $46 million for Positive Train Control (PTC) Systems Grants. This NOFO represents the balance…
Report Says Autonomous Trucks Could Create New Infrastructure, Eliminate Jobs
A new 73-page report authored by Steve Viscelli, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and issued by Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and Working Partnerships USA on Sept. 5, projects that autonomous…
