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The article discusses the impact of seasonal rains on operations at Abra Galena Mining's base metals mine in Western Australia, with ore processing suspended due to road closures, affecting concentrate haulage and mill operations.

The article focuses on the direct access road that will connect the new facility of the Port of Charleston, South Carolina with its inland network. Topics covered include construction of the road valued at 220 million U.S. dollars by the Fluor-Lane joint venture, features of the high bridge structure, geotechnical complexities and underground challenges posed by the road project and target date of the project's completion.

This section offers transportation-related news briefs in the U.S. as of July 6, 2020. The 1.3-billion U.S. dollars Council Bluffs Interstate System Program is entering the final phases toward its goal of modernizing the highway system serving metropolitan Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska. Volkert Inc. will lead the design of capacity improvements to Austin Capital Express North in Texas. Improvements to Route 7 in Virgina are scheduled for completion in 2024.

DEPARTMENTS AS COMMUNITIES across the United States and the world begin to reopen after pandemic lockdowns, planners and architects are looking ahead to how we can safely work and move about in cities in this uncertain period before a coronavirus vaccine becomes widely available. In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who has long campaigned against traffic congestion, declared that the City of Light would never return to heavy car use post-pandemic. Clients of SOM, for example, "have embraced collaborative or shared semi-public spaces", says a firm director, Julia Murphy, allowing "different business segments to cross-pollinate. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on how engineers alleviated disaster during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. It mentions that the event was disrupted by electric power outages, road closures due to the surprise visit of U.S. vice-president Mike Pence and the absence of women speakers which led to outrage from attendees. An overview of the application of underwater drones such as the PowerVision PowerDolphin to fix electricity is also presented.

The article focuses on serving as a one-stop shop for work zone solutions nationwide, Trinity Highway supplies an array of products for roadway and vertical construction projects.

The article informs about crews pushing three massive precast concrete boxes into place with hydraulic jacks underneath an active highway in Brevard County, Florida, during the week of March 29 as part of the four-billion dollars Brightline high-speed rail program that will extend the line to Orlando from Miami and West Palm Beach. It also mentioned how the crews installed temporary supports for the highway, then built the three box segments south of State Route 528 in Cocoa.

The article reports that accelerated concrete cracking of the West Seattle Bridge has forced an emergency closure of the high-rise crossing by Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan of Washington. It presents the views of Sam Zimbabwe, director of the Seattle Department of Transportation, on closely monitored cracks.

The article reports on the extension of an overnight construction closure of southbound in downtown Birmingham, Alabama after an incomplete steel girders for a new bridge at the I-65 interchange shifted atop its temporary support structures on April 4, 2018.

The article reports the closure of the Linn Cove Viaduct bridge of the Blue Ridge Parkway road for maintenance and repair work, which is located northeast of Asheville, North Carolina.

The article reports on the challenge posed by Rhine Valley railroad closure to chemical firms at Rastatt in southern Germany starting October 2017.

The article reports that Fast Fix 8 project for replacing eight Interstate 40 bridges in Nashville, Tennessee during highway shutdowns was completed on December 4, 2015; and mentions that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) named Kiewit Infrastructure Group as construction manager.

The article focuses on the decision to close the Pulaski Skyway as it undergoes renovation for two years beginning in mid-April 2014. Topics discussed include comments by New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner James Simpson, the traffic problem expected as a result of the bridge closure, and information on jobs being done by contractor CCA Civil Inc.

The article focuses on traffic management in Massachusetts (MA) during the demolition and reconstruction of bridges on Interstate 93. It states MA Department of Transportation Neil Boudreau utilized social media and message boards to inform drivers of road closures while traffic sensors monitored the volume and speed of traffic to encourage alternative routes if sustained speeds dropped under 30 miles per hours. It talks about the use of e-mail, text messages and Twitter in traffic management.

The article focuses on traffic management in Massachusetts (MA) during the demolition and reconstruction of bridges on Interstate 93. It states MA Department of Transportation Neil Boudreau utilized social media and message boards to inform drivers of road closures while traffic sensors monitored the volume and speed of traffic to encourage alternative routes if sustained speeds dropped under 30 miles per hours. It talks about the use of e-mail, text messages and Twitter in traffic management.

The article focuses on the works being conducted by utility companies on public highways. According to the author, traffic are caused by these works. The author relates that a group of workmen told farmers that a road will be closed as a gas line along a farm track will be replaced. Farmers can slow down the traffic with their tractors.

The article reports on the move of the Philadelphia Streets Department to issue a permit to close the streets Pennsylvania when the toads migrate in 2009. The "Philadelphia Inquirer-Daily News" noted that numerous toads that cross roads in the suburb to travel from the woods around the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education to Roxborough Reservoir were killed by vehicles. The permit was a response to a campaign by animal activist Lisa Levinson. She claims that about 250 toads cross the roads in an hour.

The article discusses the risks posed by road rage to highway construction workers. It mentions the decision of the California Department of Transportation to close down Route 138 for the final stage of a widening project after three incidents of road rage. It asserts that road and bridge agencies must consider road rage when planning major repair projects. It explains that delays, confusion and intricate traffic maneuvers can be attributed to stress that may lead to road rage.

The article reports on the decision of the California Department of Transportation to completely close a section of Route 138 for the final stage of road widening after incidents of road rage. The project includes widening shoulders by 8 feet (ft.), adding a lane in each direction, a four-ft. median and two truck-only lanes. The separate incidents involved an angry motorist who plowed his car into a flagman, an older woman who ran over a road worker and a driver who shot a flagman in the leg.

The reports on the reduction of rail line closures due to a speed-up technique for replacing sets of points in Great Britain. The time taken to replace points has decreased from 54 hours to 27. According to Network Rail, the time could be reduced even further so that the work could be done in one overnight shift to eight hours.

Reports on the closure of the McAlpine lock on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky in August. Reason for the closure; Effect of the closure on the delivery of aggregates by Mulzer Crushed Stone; Impact of the emergency closure of the McAlpine lock on the national economy.

Features an online geographic information system (GIS) that allows employees of the Department of Public Works to map road closures planned for launch created by the local government of Howard County, Maryland as of April 1, 2004. Background of the application development; Components of the GIS; Features.