Along with flying cars and instantaneous teleportation, smart bridges, roads and subway lines that can send out warnings when they’re damaged are staples of futuristic transportation systems in science fiction. Sandia National Laboratories has worked with Structural Monitoring Systems PLC, …
Mississippi has a problem: deteriorating local bridges. People could work together to seek a solution. All too often, though, it seems they’d rather fight. The anger boiling among some county supervisors has now produced a lawsuit by Smith and Jasper …
Oklahoma’s rural roads and bridges are among the worst in the nation, according to a new report from a national transportation group. TRIP researchers said 16 percent of Oklahoma’s rural bridges are structurally deficient, The Oklahoman reported. That’s the seventh …
In the wake of the partial closure of a heavily traveled bridge in northern New Jersey this week, Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox warned Thursday that the state’s failing roads and bridges cost drivers billions of dollars as the state is …
New Jersey’s transportation commissioner has ordered a review of the safety of every structurally deficient bridge in the state. The directive from Jamie Fox comes after a bridge collapse in Ohio and the closure of a bridge last week in …
Nearly half of the construction projects in a $6.3 billion plan Oklahoma highway officials approved this week are aimed at fixing bad bridges. The eight-year plan was approved Monday and 935 of the 1,947 total projects target poor bridges, The …
Federal highway data show that nearly 1,000 bridges in West Virginia are structurally deficient. On a sufficiency scale of 0 to 100, the Federal Highway Administration rates seven bridges in the state as 0. But West Virginia Department of Transportation …