The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) repaired guardrails on the Interstate 65 bridges that cross Sugar Creek, Amity Ditch and Big Blue River Wednesday and Thursday. These repairs are a part of multiple segments of a project crews aim to complete before winter break. The contracted crews from Reith-Riley had to close the northbound lanes on I-65 to make the repairs. Read More »

U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, introduced the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015. HR 3996 would lengthen the authorization of federal transit as well as highway programs until Dec. 4. Transportation and infrastructure are crucial to the local as well as national economy throughout the United States. Read More »

The Association of American Railroads recently rejected Waterkeeper’s Alliance's report accusing America’s railways and bridges of being in a woeful state of disrepair. Inspection of rail bridges is carried out annually. Inspections are audited by the Federal Railroad Administration that have found many U.S. bridges to be in structurally sound condition despite advanced age. Read More »

Production of two new train cars is nearing completion and soon they will be on their way to the Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART). The first of the two new train cars is almost finished. It will travel from Plattsburgh, New York to Hayward, California on a flatbread truck next month, where it will be thoroughly tested on BART’s tracks before being put into service. Read More »

The first raised bike lane was recently completed in San Francisco, and the city is currently conducting a demonstration project based on Market Street’s eastbound route. The Raised Bikeway Demonstration Project, the San Francisco Transportation Agency and San Francisco Public Works are looking to launch a new kind of bike upgrade for two blocks on Market Street. Read More »

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation, added data from September to its Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption website Friday. In September 2014, the cost for each gallon of U.S. airline services was $2.86; in September 2015, it amounted to $1.58. In August 2014, the cost of scheduled services from U.S. airlines was $1.68 per gallon. Read More »

The Indiana Department of Transportation will close or restrict certain portions of I-465 and I-65 starting Thursday and continuing through the weekend. On Nov. 19 at 9 p.m, the ramp for eastbound I-465 through southbound I-65 will be closed until Nov. 20 at 6 a.m. The crews need to make pavement repairs and saw-cut portions of the road in order to finish the project over the weekend. Read More »

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and King County Metro Transit have partnered to install a new bus stop at Third Avenue, where it connects to Union Street and Pike Street. The two stops will split the busiest bus stop in the area. The new stop sign will become effective Nov. 23. Approximately 25,000 people use the buses at this specific stop every day. Read More »

Officials and leaders from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) scheduled a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially reopen State Route 26/Water Street on Friday at 10 a.m. This newly rebuilt roadway stands near the East Jay Middle School located in Portland, Ind. The purpose of the project was to rebuild more than three-quarters of a mile of road on Water Street. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Transportation held a webinar to discuss the potential safety issues of bicyclists, pedestrians and large trucks sharing the same road. The latest crash data shows that 3,964 people died in crashes that included large trucks in 2013. Another recent evaluation demonstrated that bicyclist and pedestrian deaths due to crashes including large trucks have risen. Read More »

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) recently received grants from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) to optimize the collection of crash data throughout the state. The grants, which amount to $508,600 for the 2015 fiscal year and $106,000 for the 2016 federal fiscal year, will improve crash data by putting the information onto online databases. Read More »

The Michigan Department of Transportation was awarded the National Roadway Award Monday for its rumble strip initiative that is designed to reduce crashes. After MDOT analyzed crash data between 2004 and 2007, they found that lane departure was about 50 percent of the state’s fatal crashes. Solving this problem meant launching a statewide initiative to add rumble strips to roads. Read More »

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will hold a job fair from 10 a.m. to  2 p.m. Friday at the Aurora Subdistrict facility, 10995 Marsh Road. The goal of the job fair is to find snow plow operators for several seasonal positions that are open for people who have their CDL licenses. These operators would be working throughout the coming winter months. Read More »

Applications vying for a slice of roughly $14 million in project funds are being accepted through Friday by the Kansas Department of Transportation for its fall 2015 Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program. KDOT administers the TA Program, which provides funding for a variety of alternative transportation projects. TA Program project awards will be announced in the spring. Read More »

The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture have scheduled a hearing Tuesday to discuss the maritime transportation industry and its role in transporting food aid. The maritime transportation industry is invaluable to the health of the national economy as well as international relations.   Read More »

Amtrak will add more trains to the typical schedule in order to meet the increased travel demands of holiday travelers throughout the Midwest region of the United States. The week of Thanksgiving is the busiest week of travel in the year. In 2014, Amtrak transported 772,211 passengers for the holiday. Since experts anticipate similar numbers for this year’s holiday. Read More »

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency recently launched the Powell Street Safety and Sidewalk Improvement Pilot. The goal is to study the restricted access that is granted only to private automobiles on Powell Street. Analysts will use the new information to improve the safety of the area for pedestrians and to improve the traffic congestion that affects cable cars. Read More »

The contractors with the Indiana Department of Transportation reopened two lanes of State Road 57 in Newberry Friday. Beginning in 2010, drivers were required to follow the traffic signals that only allowed one direction of traffic to travel over the bridge at a time. The construction project originally started in 2013, when INDOT earned a contract worth $11.3 million. Read More »

Drones will be subjected to a review from the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade during a hearing, which is Nov. 19. The review is entitled “The Disrupter Series: The Fast-Evolving Uses and Economic Impacts of Drones. Read More »

Rail shipping is down in most sectors, according to recently released numbers from the American Association of Railroads (AAR). In October, traffic totaled 1,124,470 carloads, a decrease of 83,578 carloads, or 6.9 percent, compared to October 2014. Read More »