transportation news archive (2004)

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12/27/2004 Firms Investing Big In Texas Corridor Plan

12/23/2004 New Concrete Problem Found at Chesapeake Bay Bridges

12/23/2004 DOT Report Sees Benefits and Limiting Factors For
Public-Private Highways

12/20/2004 California Terminates Bay Bridge’s Design

12/20/2004 New Study Brings Good News As Oregon Begins Bridge Work

12/20/2004  Senate GOP Announces New Committee Lineups

12/20/2004 Slow-Moving Collapse Probe Still Has Not Assigned Blame

12/14/2004  House, Senate Panels Seek to Reintroduce Transport Bills Early in 2005

12/13/2004 Virginia Governor Seeks $800 Million for Transportation

12/13/2004 Towering French Bridge Elegantly Spans Wide River Valley

12/13/2004 Seattle Plans To Replace Viaduct with $4-Billion Tunnel

12/09/2004 Span Climbers Devise New Cable Device To Check Bridges

12/06/2004 Mineta to Remain at DOT, Chao at Labor Dept. in Second Bush Term

12/06/2004 FAA Releases Funds for Hurricane-Damaged Airports

11/23/2004 DOT Inspector General Warns About Amtrak's Deferred Capital Projects

11/18/2004  Prospects Disappear For Highway Bill Passage This Year

11/11/2004 CA/T Facing Protracted Tunnel Leaks Investigation

11/08/2004 Short-List Chosen for Worlds Longest Suspension Bridges

11/08/2004 New Israeli Terminal Opens Amid Gaza Pullout Debate

11/08/2004 Behemoth in The Bronx Swings into Final Position

11/01/2004 Navy Starts Tests of New Pier That Could Be Future Wave

11/01/2004 Second Truss Failure Delays Work on Ohio Bridge Again

10/28/2004 FAA: $39.5 Billion Airport Needs in 2005-2009, Down 15%

10/25/2004 Vancouver Contractor Drives Bridge Piles in Tight Schedule

10/11/2004 U.S., European Firms Help Design Yangtze River Crossing

10/11/2004 California Scraps Sole Bid for Signature Span

10/11/2004 Hoover Dam Span Gets High Bids

10/01/2004  Congress Passes, Bush Signs 8-Month Transport Bill Extension

10/04/2004 Senate Passes Security Bills for Railroads, Transit

09/30/2004  8-Month Transport Bill Extension Nears Approval

09/27/2004  Highway Bill Extension Expires, Halting New Obligations

09/27/2004  State DOTs Press for Action on Stalled Transport Bill

09/27/2004 Planned, Collapsed Terminals Featured at Peer Review

09/23/2004 FHWA Sends States $974 Million

09/22/2004  Six-Month Transport Bill Extension Introduced in Senate

09/20/2004 Equipment Mishaps Close Las Vegas Monorail Project

09/17/2004 Gulf Coast Tallies Damage

09/15/2004 New ARTBA Chairman Continues Federal Funding Push

09/13/2004 Connecticut Tries to Avert Federal Highway Fund Sanctions

09/09/2004  Senate Panel Approves 4% Hike for Highways in 2005

09/09/2004  States Cut Their Share of Overall Highway Funding, GAO Says

09/08/2004  Bush Mentions One-Year Extension

09/02/2004 Segmental Bridge Widening A First for U.S. Mainland

09/02/2004 Illinois Proposes $5.3-Billion Tollway Reconstruction

08/30/2004 Funding Problems Keep Bay Area Span Plan In Suspense

08/27/2004 Test Findings Implicate URS Design For Tampa Toll Road Pier Problems

08/27/2004 Fluor-led Team Gets Green Light To Move Forward With HOT-Lane Proposal In Virginia

08/26/2004 Corps Fixes Louisville Lock, Reopens Ohio River Four Days Early

08/20/2004 Opponents Drop Challenge to New Seattle Runway

08/19/2004  State DOTs to Study Impact of One-Year Extension

08/16/2004 Emergency Repairs Halt Ohio River Traffic

07/30/2004  Bush Signs Fifth Transport Bill Extension

07/23/2004  Fifth Extension Looms; House GOP Proposes $299-Billion, Six-Year Bill

07/20/2004  Sen. Inhofe Gives Transportation Conferees 48 Hours to Accept Plan

07/19/2004 N.Y. Crews Preparing To Place A Bronx Bomber of a Truss

07/14/2004  Transport Bill Conferees Struggle Over Funding

07/12/2004 States Infuse Hoover Dam Bypass With Alternate Funds

07/08/2004  House Fails to Make Counter-Offer in Transport Bill Conference

06/28/2004 Monorail Is Not Sure Bet Yet For Vegas or Design-Builders

06/25/2004  House-Senate Pass One-Month Transport Bill Extension

06/14/2004 DOTs Take Hard Look At Long-Life Roads

06/11/2004 U.S. DOT Lets Design Proceed for Virginia Rail Line

06/10/2004  House-Senate Conference Opens, Tough Road Ahead

06/07/2004 Taxiway Crossing Is Wheeled 1.5 Kilometers to Its Foundations

06/07/2004 Teams Request Bid Extension, Fire Sparks Safety Concerns

06/07/2004 Way-High Single Bid Stymies State Officials

06/04/2004  House-Senate Conference May Start June 9

05/24/2004 Team Looking at Temporary Bracing for Cause of Collapse

05/20/2004  Transport Bill Conference Finally to Begin, After Senate Standoff Ends

05/06/2004 Senate Panel Approves $5.2-Billion Transit Security Bill

05/03/2004 Central Artery Firms Facing Errors and Omissions Probe

04/30/2004  Senate Passes Two-Month TEA-21 Extension

04/29/2004  House Passes Two-Month TEA-21 Extension, But Bill Held Up in Senate

04/22/2004  With Little Progress on Six-Year Bill, New Extension Seen Nearly Inevitable

04/19/2004 Feds Bar Retroactive Hikes For Steel Price Increase

04/15/2004 Mineta to Explore DOT's Steel-Price Options, Including Legislative 'Fix'

04/12/2004 First Phase of Toronto’s $3.6-billion Airport Project Opens

04/02/2004  House Passes 'TEA-LU' Bill, on 357-65 Vote

04/01/2004  Veto Threatened as House Debates $284-Billion Transport Bill

03/29/2004 State Sues Consultant For Central Artery Role

03/25/2004 FAA Says Five Big Airports Need Expansion Now

03/25/2004  House Committee Approves $275-Billion Transportation Bill

03/18/2004 DHS Official Defends Rail Security Budget

03/15/2004 Hollings Proposes $1.2-Billion Passenger-Rail Security Bill

03/15/2004  Hastert to Pursue $275-Billion Transportation Bill

03/15/2004 Chicago Proposes $213-million Airport Express Train

03/08/2004 Engineers Tackle Repairs On Mysteriously Shifted Span

03/05/2004  Mineta Ducks Question About Two-Year Bill

03/01/2004 Attitude at World of Concrete: Economy in 'Transition' Mode

03/01/2004 Transport Funding Cutoff Averted at Deadline, But Only for Two Months

03/01/2004 Progress Differs at Bridge Sites of Two Fatal Collapses

02/26/2004  Senate Weighs Further Two-Month Extension for Highway, Transit Programs

02/23/2004  Ball Now in House's Court on Transport Bill

02/16/2004  Bush, Congress Battle Over Transport Bill

02/16/2004 British Columbia Plans Scenic Highway Upgrade for Olympics

02/13/2004  Senate Passes $318-Billion Bill to Succeed TEA-21

02/13/2004  Senate Passes $318-Billion Bill to Succeed TEA-21

02/12/2004  House Passes Four-Month TEA-21 Extension

02/12/2004  Senate Clears Procedural Hurdle on TEA-21 Successor

02/09/2004 Light Steel Tube Web Girders Brace New French Viaduct

02/09/2004 House Vote Seen Within Days on 4-Month TEA-21 Extension

02/03/2004  Senate Finance Panel Clears $35 Billion to Support TEA-21 Successor

02/02/2004 Arizona Makes Some Noise With Quiet Road Efforts

02/02/2004 ‘Prefeasibility’ Study Looks at Newfoundland / Labrador Links

02/02/2004 Design of World Trade Center Transportation Hub Unveiled

01/29/2004 For TEA-21 Successor: One Step Forward in Senate, One Step Back in House

01/28/2004 O'Hare Picks PM for $6.6-billion Airfield Expansion in Chicago

01/26/2004 Maine Replacement Span Sparks Design Controversy

01/26/2004 Northridge Aftermath: Aftershocks Continue

01/26/2004 Stainless Steel Bolsters Oregon Arch-Hinged Bridge

01/22/2004 DOT's Mineta Opposes Extending TEA-21 for One or Two Years

01/12/2004 Threats Fray Nerves But Spawn Innovation

01/12/2004 U.S. Engineer Keeps Busy With China Connections

01/05/2004 AECOM Hires Jackson, Former DOT Deputy Secretary