Highway workers’ deaths prompt renewed warning
State transportation officials are renewing their plea for drivers to stay alert in construction zones after a crash that killed two workers on Interstate 35 in Burnsville.
View ArticleReport: Metro area needs $500 million in repairs for 154 bridges
Despite recent improvements and ongoing projects, Minnesota’s bridges still need hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of repairs, according to a new report from Transportation for America.
View ArticleStatus of state shutdown construction claims still murky
The 2012 construction season will probably be well under way before any definitive answers emerge regarding the state’s payments of construction claims related to July’s 20-day government shutdown.
View ArticleHighway interchanges get jump-start
The new Rogers interchange is one of four Minnesota highway interchange projects jump-started by $44.5 million in one-time state Safety and Mobility (SAM) grants in early 2011. Project planners are now...
View ArticleObama signs St. Croix bridge bill, MnDOT forms special project office
Minnesota Department of Transportation engineer Jon Chiglo is used to taking on big projects. He’s about to tackle another one, now that President Barack Obama has signed a bill that will allow the St....
View ArticleNext step for St. Croix bridge: a ‘load test’
Minnesota Department of Transportation officials and consulting engineers will soon descend on the area as they gather design information for the estimated $626.4 million Croix River Crossing between...
View ArticleBolander low bidder for St. Croix River Crossing ‘pile test’
Carl Bolander & Sons is the apparent low bidder for a pile test project that will help set the stage for construction of the estimated $626.4 million St. Croix River Crossing project.
View ArticleContractors seek panel for state shutdown claims
Nine months after the state government shutdown ended, highway contractors who suffered losses are frustrated by what they see as the slow pace of resolving claims.
View ArticleBachmann lobbies for wider I-94
The GOP congresswoman came to the state Capitol in St. Paul with supporters from local government and businesses to talk about the project.
View ArticleLow bidder McCrossan loses job over DBE requirement
C.S. McCrossan’s bid to do Highway 36 approach work for the new St. Croix River bridge was nearly $6 million less than the next lowest bid, but the Maple Grove-based highway contractor apparently won’t...
View ArticleMcCrossan sues MnDOT over St. Croix Crossing work
Maple Grove-based C.S. McCrossan says in a lawsuit filed Monday that the Minnesota Department of Transportation unfairly rejected its bid to do approach work for the $626 million St. Croix Crossing...
View ArticleSt. Croix contractor on alert for mussels
Following the discovery of dead zebra mussels on six barges used for the St. Croix Crossing project, contractor Edward Kraemer & Sons says it’s seeking help a third-party inspector to prevent such...
View ArticleState prepares to dispose of I-35W bridge parts
Minnesota is preparing to give victims, historians and engineers a chance to claim some of the steel wreckage from the deadly 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge before the rest is sold for scrap.
View ArticleAudit finds deficiencies in DBE oversight
An audit of the MnDOT’s Office of Civil Rights found a wide range of deficiencies related its oversight of a program designed to oversee contracting opportunities for disadvantaged businesses.
View ArticleDid McCrossan make a difference?
MnDOT will pay McCrossan $300,000 as part of a “compromise of disputed claims” in which neither party acknowledges any liability or wrongdoing, according to the settlement agreement.
View ArticleContractors sue MnDOT over project award
The contractors claim that MnDOT ignored state law and its own instructions to bidders in awarding the project.
View ArticleWord on the street: Concrete, asphalt debate heats up
Concrete industry backers say more counties are turning to concrete as it becomes more cost-competitive with asphalt.
View ArticleContractors seek panel for state shutdown claims
Nine months after the state government shutdown ended, highway contractors who suffered losses are frustrated by what they see as the slow pace of resolving claims.
View ArticleBachmann lobbies for wider I-94
The GOP congresswoman came to the state Capitol in St. Paul with supporters from local government and businesses to talk about the project.
View ArticleLow bidder McCrossan loses job over DBE requirement
C.S. McCrossan’s bid to do Highway 36 approach work for the new St. Croix River bridge was nearly $6 million less than the next lowest bid, but the Maple Grove-based highway contractor apparently won’t...
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