
MAINE - The Canadian government already has pledged its half of the nearly $100 million needed to construct the Maine-New Brunswick bridge, which would have one end near the Calais industrial park. The United States is still searching for the funds....
BERKELEY - UC Berkeley professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl has a bridge to sell you....
DC - - Internationally acclaimed architect Santiago Calatrava, FAIA, was selected by the Board of Directors of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) to receive the 2005 AIA Gold Medal....
PENNSYLVANIA - Transportation officials are looking to residents for assistance with the design of the bridge that will connect Routes 15 and 147 as part of the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway....
CALIFORNIA - Folsom's bid to find a replacement for a route over the Folsom Dam closed more than two years ago because of terrorist concerns is in line for $7 million in federal funding....
KENTUCKY - The $2.3 million feasibility study, which Rust discussed at a Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce gathering Monday, made several important determinations...
US - But alas, also a suicide magnet in a way other bridges for some reason just are not. Therefore in the interests of saving lives the Golden Gate Bridge must be closed a gun rights group reasonably suggests....
SACRAMENTO - Skeptical legislators grilled Caltrans officials, bridge engineers and architects Tuesday about the state's plan to complete the overrun-plagued new eastern span of the Bay Bridge with a concrete causeway instead of a single-tower suspension bridge....
OMAHA - Regardless of whether more federal money becomes available, a new Missouri River bridge will be built to connect South Dakota and Nebraska, according to Leon Schochenmaier of the South Dakota Transportation Department....
MARYLAND - A combination of bad planning and problems with contractors led to $7 million in cracked and unusable concrete on the Bay Bridge, a group of engineers studying the public works fiasco said in report released this morning....
POUGHKEEPSIE - The stone supports of the Tioronda Bridge in Beacon are falling apart. The 1872 bridge is on the National Registry of Historic Places, and notable for its unusual bowstring arches....
SACRAMENTO - Compared with commuters around the world, Bay Area motorists have it easy with the current $3 toll on seven state-owned bridges. But that could change as lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger haggle over how to pay the rising cost of rebuilding the Bay Bridge's eastern span....
TOLEDO - From their office in the plains of northern Italy, designers of two hulking cranes worried about how they would be used to build a bridge set to reshape Toledo's skyline....
SOUTH DAKOTA - Regardless of whether more federal money comes down the pipe, a new Missouri River bridge will be built at Yankton, according to Leon Schochenmaier of the South Dakota Department of Transportation....
RENO - Researchers simulated a powerful earthquake on a model concrete bridge at the University of Nevada, Reno Thursday to assess damage scientists hope will help engineers design safer highway structures....
AFRICA - When recently it was reported that the existing bridge is showing clear evidence of stress arising from over use, the government acknowledged the need for a second bridge but said that it could not afford the cost now. What is this cost? Some official estimates put it at more than N30 billion. That is what government says it cannot afford amidst the clear danger that a possible collapse of the ageing Niger bridge poses to commuters....
RENO - The structure used in Thursday’s test was for all intents and purposes a real bridge — a 70-foot-long, 135-ton concrete span built with the help of Granite Construction Co....
SAN FRANCISCO - Caltrans Director Will Kempton stuck to his view Thursday that a skyway, not a tower, is the most prudent way to finish the Bay Bridge, but he seemed to hold the door ajar to options....
TOLEDO - I-280 construction workers will lay down their tools and shut down their machines for a minute on Wednesday afternoon to mark the anniversary of the crane collapse last year that killed four co-workers and injured four others...
PROVIDENCE - For five hours an appointed, three-person Board of View listened to legal arguments and testimony at the township building Monday to determine whether the township can legally build a proposed $1.1 million bridge on North Grange Avenue over Rock Creek Run....
WOBURN - At a recent two-day national mayor's conference in Washington, D.C., Mayor John Curran made his pitch for funding for several key projects in Woburn....
FLORIDA - Koton was about halfway across the span on her way to Wal-Mart when she realized the tender was raising the bridge. She said she thought of her three granddaughters back home in Massachusetts and held on for dear life....
CANADA - Not only did Winnipeggers pay $1 million to put a toilet on a footbridge, they also shelled out another $100,000 -- plus GST -- to pay a movie crew to film a documentary on it....
OAKLAND - Already embroiled in controversy over construction of a new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans officials have unveiled another major project Bay Area project that faces a number of challenges -- building a fourth bore to the Caldecott Tunnel to relieve traffic stress on Highway 24....
CALIFORNIA - A 51-year-old Placerville man fell 50 feet to his death Thursday while working on a segment of the new Highway 49 Amador bypass project....
TAMPA - State highway officials chose the safest and most expensive option Thursday in approving a plan to repair the elevated lanes of the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway....
CANADA - It appears two bridges north of Kamloops will have be replaced because of damage caused by river ice jams this week....
TOLEDO - News 11 has learned new details about the criminal investigation surrounding the I-280 Truss collapse that killed four ironworkers last year....
CALIFORNIA - A State Senate panel peppered the state's two top transportation officials Wednesday with questions about Caltrans' ability to handle a redesign of the Bay Bridge project....
AUSTRALIA - Authorities have recovered the body of a 53-year old man who was swept into floodwaters in north Queensland this week....
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco officials are again grappling with an issue as old as the Golden Gate Bridge: how to stop people from killing themselves by jumping off the city's most famous landmark....
VICKSBURG - The U-S Coast Guard will determine whether a Saint Louis barge company will be fined after its two of its tows hit the Mississippi River bridges at Vicksburg this past week....
CLEARWATER - Events started at about 9 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23, when Argo Road Maintenance notified area highways manager Vern Goodwin that the Highway 5 bridge at Mad River had been damaged by ice and water....
GEORGIA - Walter Rinard was a happy man when he learned Monday that the covered bridge, which had been part of his own childhood and family history, will, indeed, be saved and restored....
MAINE - A coalition of environmental and "smart-growth" groups Monday recommended an alternative to the next two sections of the controversial Chittenden County Circumferential Highway, proposing a traffic system that would include six roundabouts....
LA - The Atchafalaya River was closed to river traffic on Sunday after a crane on a barge struck an old highway bridge that connects Morgan City and Berwick, the U.S. Coast Guard said....
MIAMI - Construction of a high-level bridge that will let Tri-Rail commuter trains soar over the South Fork of the New River without waiting for boats has stopped in its tracks in a dispute over bridge standards....
MALAYSIA - Johor Bahru member of parliament and Backbencher Club Chairman Shahrir Samad must be commended for his courage for being the first Malaysian leader to openly call for the scrapping of the proposed bridge to replace the causeway to Singapore....
INDIA - proposed flyover at the ITO intersection is to be built with pre-fabricated material in 36 hours. Delhi Times finds out how...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Golden Gate Bridge's stylish beauty masks a darker trait: the world's most famous suicide venue. More than 1,300 troubled souls have jumped to their deaths since the towering red Art Deco span opened in 1937....
NEBRASKA - Supporters of replacing the aging Missouri River bridge at Yankton got a boost when U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne, R-Neb., was appointed to a key panel, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee....
MARYLAND - After more than four years of construction, the $2.4-billion plan to build a new Woodrow Wilson Bridge across the Potomac River and expand adjacent segments of the Capital Beltway has reached the one-third-complete mark. The scorecard so far?...
SACRAMENTO - Newly uncovered Caltrans documents show the state agency sat on an official report that it ran out of money to finish the Bay Bridge one month before opening bids on the project. At the same time Caltrans was already looking at a new design, the records show....
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers want to know why Caltrans never reported it couldn't fund the projec...
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers plan to lash