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Punishing heat has left hundreds dead as it buckles roads and strains bridges. Cities are exploring how to adjust for a warming climate. SEATTLE -- Road crews sprayed water on [...]

Overhead on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, some drivers might crane their necks in appreciation as cargo ships pass below. But that is about as much excitement as such ships typically generate [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe New York State agency that lends federal money for sewer plants and other clean-water projects on Thursday approved a $511 million loan to the Thruway Authority for 17 [...]

The governor of New Jersey is bullish on honesty. ''We are failing our taxpayers when we refuse to honestly address these problems and try to fool them into believing that [...]

One by one, the rivers around Manhattan have emerged from decades of industrial abuse. The Hudson River has its five-mile ribbon of parkland and active kayaking community; the Bronx River, [...]

Traffic resumed Wednesday on the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. A temporary span replaced a section of the bridge that collapsed [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The plan was to finish construction on the new eastern stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and open it on Labor Day. Then the existing bridge, [...]

Portions of a temporary Interstate 5 bridge could extend over the Skagit River in a day or two, and the entire 160-foot gap should be filled by mid-June, reopening freeway [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBrooklyn was still an independent city when the Carroll Street Bridge vaulted over the Gowanus Canal, allowing horse-drawn wagons to travel among the area's farms. This relic of the [...]

BOSTON -- The River Street Bridge here is normally unremarkable, the kind of structure people drive over every day without a thought. When it fell into disrepair, state officials knew [...]

The Tappan Zee Bridge, long overdue for an overhaul, was one of 14 projects chosen on Tuesday by the Obama administration for expedited federal review and approval -- possibly allowing [...]

If it gets built, the bridge over Yosemite Slough will surely be a monument to political compromise. The bridge is but a sliver of Lennar's 10,500-home project, to be built [...]

For years, the employees who maintain the nine bridges and tunnels owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would arrive at work at 8 a.m. for their regular eight-hour shift. And [...]

For a public work named after a champion of liberty, the Kosciuszko Bridge has taken its share of prisoners over the years. The bridge, the hyphen in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, [...]

Nearly a week of frustration ended for commuters when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened after emergency repairs. Traffic began moving across the span after two rods and a crossbar […]

Commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area were bracing for an arduous commute on Tuesday morning after slow-going repairs to a cracked support forced the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to […]

The 73-year-old bridge that carries commuters between San Francisco and the heavily populated cities to its east could remain closed for a fifth day as crews race to repair a […]

The $2 cash rate for cars crossing the Claiborne Pell Bridge to and from Newport has been as much a constant over the years as the sailboats gliding in the […]

THE Clifton Avenue Bridge over Interstate-280 and the New Jersey Transit railroad tracks in Newark is a cratered moonscape, a patchwork of cracks, pockmarks and potholes that make vehicle shock […]

Trucks carrying tens of thousands of pounds of crushed stone were parked on the Interstate 35W bridge, and more stone was sitting on the deck when the bridge collapsed, investigators […]

The city's oldest standing bridge, a long-closed structure named the High Bridge linking Manhattan to the Bronx, has no significant structural problems but needs $20 million to $30 million of […]

The lower roadway of the Manhattan Bridge was closed yesterday for repairs that are expected to take a year, the city Transportation Department said. The repairs involve a complete rehabilitation […]

Construction to replace a roadway deck will shut down a lane of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge around the clock until further notice starting Thursday night, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. To […]

A one-year, $136 million project to replace the 66-year-old roadway deck of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge will begin on May 31, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced. One of the six […]

New York State should spend at least $9 billion over the next five years to prevent the deterioration of highways and bridges and reduce traffic congestion in the five boroughs […]

State transportation officials will open a temporary steel truss bridge over the Friendship Creek beginning at 6 this morning, according to a spokesman. A 34-foot span of the bridge was […]

With construction on the Manhattan Bridge nearly complete, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will soon announce its most substantial change in the subway map in nearly two decades, officials confirmed yesterday. […]

With a blast that hurled huge chunks of rock onto Interstates 87 and 287, construction workers began work today on a $187 million project to reconfigure the congested roadways near […]