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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 [...]

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Hard times are no stranger in Zinc, a tiny hardscrabble hamlet with no paved streets deep in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas. First, the mine played [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: JENNIFER RICH; TIMES CORRESPONDENT TREASURE ISLAND -- Construction of the Isle of Palms bridge, one of two bridges involved in a $4 million replacement project, will soon be under [...]

Byline: LORRIE LYKINS Could you tell me why the city is tearing up perfectly good sidewalks and installing new wide sidewalks along 37th Street from 22nd Avenue S to at [...]

Byline: Tom Fontaine Sept. 20--The Rev. Dan Whalen sighed Wednesday after learning how the $120 million Route 28 road project will snarl traffic in the Millvale area for the next [...]

Tampa Afternoon commuters can expect to take the Columbus Drive Bridge today. The historic swing bridge spanning the Hillsborough River is scheduled to re-open after being closed since February for [...]

June 23--Motorists reported lengthy traffic delays this afternoon on the inbound Parkway West as fans headed to the 4:05 p.m. Pirates game at PNC Park. They were being detoured through [...]

Byline: SUE CARLTON It could be one of the biggest comebacks in Tampa Bay history. As big as our once sad-sack creamsicle football team winning us a Super Bowl. As [...]

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 [...]

Byline: SUE CARLTON Tampa's own mini Carmageddon, the news said when the Platt Street Bridge that carries residents from the city's monied neighborhoods into downtown closed for repair. Commuters, Rejoice, [...]

Byline: RICH SHOPES; Times Correspondent TAMPA -- Get ready for another bridge closure. With the Platt Street Bridge recentlyreopened, engineers now plan to shut down the Columbus Drive Bridge for [...]

Byline: SHEILA MULLANE ESTRADA; TIMES CORRESPONDENT TREASURE ISLAND -- Plans for the new $1.5 million Central Beach trail are now more than 60 percent complete, but final costs will not [...]

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 [...]

President Obama used a crumbling bridge connecting northern Kentucky to Ohio to make one of his most personal attacks yet on Republican leaders. Obama's visit on Thursday to the Brent [...]

Byline: Mandy Hofmockel July 19--On the first full weekday following closure of a section of Route 65, drivers experienced delays of 10 to 15 minutes on Monday in their morning [...]

June 18--Part of Clifton Road in Bethel Park will be closed through July 15 so that crews can install a pedestrian bridge over the roadway in the area of Highfield [...]

May 16--Crews today will inspect a bridge that carries Route 65 over Jacks Run in Bellevue, PennDOT said. Lane closures will occur as needed in both directions between Kendall and [...]

May 02--Repair work on the bridge that carries Greentree Road over the Parkway West in Green Tree will begin tonight, PennDOT said. Traffic will be reduced to a single lane [...]