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Byline: Julia Felton Jun. 5Pittsburgh is finally catching up on fixing its ailing bridges. More than two years after the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge exposed dire problems with [...]

Byline: Michael Laris Maryland officials made a broad appeal to private industry Friday to help it design and build a replacement for the fallen Key Bridge - and open it [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Sep. 8Pittsburgh's Calera Street Bridge is set to be replaced, and the city's California Avenue Bridge is expected to see a major rehabilitation. Maria Montaño, a spokeswoman [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jul. 19Overnight closures of the Andy Warhol Bridge have ended, Allegheny County officials said Tuesday. The closures, which began in late April, allowed for crews to install [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jul. 7Repair work on the North Side's Swindell Bridge will close the span for nearly a month starting Monday, city officials said. The full closure is expected [...]

Byline: Jack Troy Jun. 29A scheduled closure to the New Kensington Bridge will happen a year sooner than expected. The six-week closure is tentatively scheduled for July 17, with July [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will build a temporary road atop backfill to patch the gap in Interstate 95 left by a bridge collapse in northeast Philadelphia, [...]

Byline: Julia Felton May 19A $230,000 maintenance project on Pittsburgh's Swinburne Bridge is scheduled to begin Monday, and officials said the work could result in short-term delays for motorists over [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi May 2More than 400 motorists a day will be impacted when a Fawn road is closed long term May 15. Thompson Road will be shut down between [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Apr. 22Pittsburgh officials on Friday announced that construction projects at the Swindell Bridge and 30th Street Bridge are slated to begin next week. The city's Department of [...]

Byline: Paul Guggenheimer Apr. 21Motorists who regularly use the outbound Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel have been given somewhat of a reprieve. Work scheduled for tonight has been canceled and [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Feb. 11Long-term lane restrictions will begin Monday on the Highland Park Bridge in Sharpsburg, PennDOT officials said this weekend. Officials plan to restrict northbound traffic, weather permitting, [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Dec. 22Pittsburgh's new Fern Hollow Bridge opened to traffic in the East End early Thursday afternoon, less than a year after it collapsed. Officials had initially said [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Dec. 14Less than one year after collapsing, the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh could reopen before Christmas and reconnect a vital artery in the city's East End. [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Nov. 23Pittsburgh officials on Wednesday said they are closing the east sidewalk on the South Negley Avenue bridge in Shadyside. The bridge, which spans the East Busway [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Oct. 20President Joe Biden stopped in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon to survey progress on the $25.3 million reconstruction of the Fern Hollow Bridge and tout his administration's [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan, Natalia Abbakumova and Kostiantyn Khudov KYIV, Ukraine - A giant explosion ripped across the Crimean Bridge, a strategic link between mainland Russia and Crimea, in what appeared [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Oct. 7A crane boom struck a pedestrian bridge in Pittsburgh on Friday, warping a metal beam of the bridge and causing closures of Bigelow Boulevard in both [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Oct. 7A crane boom struck a pedestrian bridge in Pittsburgh on Friday, warping a metal beam of the bridge and causing closures of Bigelow Boulevard in both [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Sep. 1Pittsburgh officials announced that Swindell Bridge in Pittsburgh's North Side was reopening to all traffic Thursday. The bridge was closed on July 1 because of debris [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jun. 24Pittsburgh's Swindell Bridge is being milled and resurfaced in a project that began Friday, officials said. The 1,097-foot-long bridge, which stretches over the Parkway North on [...]

Byline: Katherine Shaver WASHINGTON - District officials abruptly closed part of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge on a major commuter route between Washington and Northern Virginia late Friday, saying the span [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Feb. 3The bridge carrying traffic from Rosslyn Road to the inbound side of the Parkway West has reopened after a vehicle struck it on Wednesday afternoon. PennDOT [...]

Byline: Megan Guza Feb. 2Two decades' worth of love locks on Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente Bridge will not be love lost, but rather removed and donated for an art project when [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan The Biden administration urged states on Friday to get to work bringing thousands of aging bridges up to par, while improving safety and uncorking bottlenecks, with the [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Katherine Shaver A Memphis-area bridge over the Mississippi River has reopened following almost three months of emergency repair work after inspectors called 911 to report a large crack in [...]

Jun. 18Laurel: To pedaling forward. There may be no more quintessential expression of the freedom of summer vacation than a kid on a bike. It's exercise. It's fun. It's the [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan Repairs to a cracked Mississippi River bridge in Memphis are likely to stretch for two more months, officials said Thursday, as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine May 21Murrysville officials would like to build on a 2018 study of the Logan's Ferry bridge intersection and begin evaluating permanent fixes for there and the Heather [...]

May 3In the fairy tale about goats trying to cross a bridge, a troll sat under the bridge, waiting to gobble up the goats as payment for their audacity. Troll [...]

For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: No one knows the contours of post-pandemic working life, but it's a fair bet that the world will [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Bobby Kerlik Nov. 04--Liberty Tunnel cleaning and maintenance will force the closure of a single lane in each direction overnight this week, starting Monday, PennDOT officials said. Single-lane traffic [...]

Byline: Margaret Harding Oct. 28--An inoperable heating machine slowed the drying process of road sealant on Interstate-79 and caused a 9-mile traffic back-up Tuesday morning, a PennDOT spokesman said. Workers [...]

Byline: Reid Wilson The nation's roads and bridges aren't in good shape. Twenty-five percent of bridges are rated deficient or obsolete. Fourteen percent of roads are in poor condition. And [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Larry Copeland, USA TODAY It happens nearly a quarter-billion times a day in the USA: A car, truck or other vehicle is driven across one of the nation's 63,000 [...]

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, [...]

The Florida Department of Transportation will hold public hearings this week on plans to rebuild the northbound span of the Howard Frankland Bridge. The state should acknowledge from the start [...]

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 [...]