National Transportation Group Holds Major Event in Portland
Portland - This week, the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) held its annual spring meeting in Portland, Maine. More than 450 of the nation’s top transportation officials, including Commissioners/Cabinet Secretaries of Transportation, Chief Engineers and policy staff from 46 states gathered to discuss the latest in industry policies and innovations. MaineDOT Commissioner David Bernhardt is currently...
HDOT to Add a New Freeway Lane From the Red Hill Area to Aiea Heights Drive Overpass
HONOLULU – Beginning in early June, the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) will be working on the H-201 Moanalua Freeway westbound from the Halawa Interchange to the Aiea pedestrian overpass on the H-1 Freeway. The work on the Moanalua Freeway will add a full-time dedicated westbound lane through restriping and will improve the pavement surface in the project area. “I am pleased that HDOT continues to move forward with cost effective projects aimed at improving the daily lives of resi...
Amtrak Taps Developer for $1 Billion-Plus Redevelopment of Union Station
Amtrak has chosen a Chicago development firm to lead a more than 3 million-square-foot real estate redevelopment of Union Station and surrounding land, a project expected to take about six years to complete and cost more than $1 billion. Riverside Investment & Development, led by John O'Donnell, will lead the redevelopment team, according to a news release on the project. More details are expected to be announced Thursday by the developer, Amtrak and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The total development...
Americans Concerned that Delayed Repairs to Nation’s Roads and Bridges Affecting Travel Safety and Congestion
NEW YORK – As the country hits the road for the long Memorial Day weekend, the latest HNTB America THINKS survey brings new urgency to the nation’s infrastructure debate, finding most Americans have safety concerns when driving on its roads and bridges. While 92 percent of Americans believe it is extremely, or very important, to maintain existing highway and bridge infrastructure to improve highway safety and reduce congestion, just 35 percent believe their local highways and bridges are ext...
Video Shows Stretch of Iconic Calif. Highway Buried After Massive Landslide
BIG SUR, Calif. -- A massive landslide that went into the Pacific Ocean is the latest natural disaster to hit a California community that relies heavily on an iconic coastal highway and tourism to survive, and it adds to a record $1 billion in highway damage from one of the state's wettest winters in decades. The weekend slide in Big Sur buried a portion of Highway 1 under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt and changed the coastline below to include what now looks like a rounded skirt hem, Susa...
National Asphalt Pavement Association Endorses Transportation Project Safety Certification Program
(WASHINGTON) - The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) today endorsed the Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals™ (SCTPP) program and plans to urge its member firms and their employees to earn the credential beginning this year. Launched in late 2016 and administered by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF), the SCTTP’s vision is to “ensure the safety and well-being of construction workers,...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Financial Assistance to 11 Children of Fallen Highway Workers
WASHINGTON - Eleven children of highway workers who were killed on the job will receive college financial assistance for the 2017-18 school year from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund. The scholarship program was established in 1999 with a gift from two Roanoke, Virginia, highway contractors and their companies—Stan Lanford (1999 ART...
AASHTO Congratulates Jeff Rosen on His Confirmation as USDOT Deputy Secretary
Statement from Bud Wright AASHTO Executive Director WASHINGTON - “On behalf of AASHTO and our state DOT members, I want to congratulate Deputy Secretary Jeff Rosen on his confirmation. We look forward to working with Jeff and his colleagues on the pressing need for investment in our national surface transportation system. Jeff brings tremendous expertise from his time in US DOT and in other Federal service. And he understands the federal-state partnership in delivering transportation servi...
Trump Signs Repeal of MPO Rule
President Trump signed into law May 12 a measure that repeals a controversial new regulation to reform metropolitan planning organizations, which the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration promulgated last year. The new rule had drawn widespread industry concern for the burdens it would impose on MPOs, and disruptions it could bring in relationships between MPOs and their partners. The Senate had passed the repeal measure by unanimous consent before the House passed...
Chao: Infrastructure Plan ‘Principles’ Coming This Month
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the Trump administration will release "principles" of its infrastructure investment plan late this month, and that the White House Office of Management and Budget is looking for spending offsets to help make up for $200 million of direct federal funding in the plan. Chao made the remarks over several days in a television interview, a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and in a hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee....
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
