The Obama administration announced a new U.S. push to transform travel in America, creating high-speed rail lines from city to city, reducing dependence on cars and planes, reducing congestion and greenhouse gases, and spurring economic development
Read More →President Barack Obama Monday announced funding for the 2,000th transportation project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), only six weeks after approving the first project
Read More →A highway reconstruction project on the northbound lanes of Interstate 57 in Illinois from Benton to the Franklin/Jefferson County line is scheduled to begin April 20, reducing traffic to one lane
Read More →A report released by the American Society of Civil Engineers shows that with ingenuity and the right amount of commitment on the part of the nation's leaders and the American people, the infrastructure crisis is a solvable problem
Read More →Plans for a $900 million upgrade to New Jersey's I-295/I-76/Route 42 interchange can move forward now that federal officials have given final environmental approval, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced
Read More →The General Accountability Office, in a recent report to Congress and DOT, made recommendations to avoid another highway funding shortfall
Read More →Despite receiving $694.5 million for highway projects in the federal stimulus package, the Virginia Department of Transportation is planning to close 25 of the state's 41 Interstate highway rest areas
Read More →The final phase of the changes to I-80/94 (the Frank Borman Expressway) on the Indiana/Illinois border is now under way, meaning lanes and various ramps are restricted through November 2009 during road reconstruction
Read More →A new analysis of 30 freight bottlenecks assesses the severity of 30 freight bottlenecks within the U.S. interstate system, using unique analysis methods and data to produce a severity ranking for each location
Read More →A new analysis of 30 freight bottlenecks assesses the severity of 30 freight bottlenecks within the U.S. interstate system, using unique analysis methods and data to produce a severity ranking for each location
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