TALLAHASSEE – With Florida’s aging prison system facing more than $2 billion in fast-needed repairs, renovations and new construction, state lawmakers are dismissing calls for putting big dollars into the work during budget talks underway. Instead, a modest $100 million looks poised to be tucked into a state spending plan expected to top $116 billion, […]
Ford Motor Co. is in the midst of a five-year “recall of a recall,” reinspecting more than a quarter-million vehicles after the company discovered sloppy work and false billing by dealership technicians during the required replacement of dangerous Takata air bags. Customers whose repair records mistakenly reflect fixes never made are at risk from the […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced Friday pothole repairs for more than two dozen roads in Bucks and Montgomery counties starting next week. Workers will be out on heavily traveled roads and local streets in about 20 municipalities in Bucks County and a handful of Eastern Montgomery County towns. PennDOT work crews will begin a […]
Feb. 24—ASHTABULA — The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will be replacing rivets on the Ashtabula Harbor lift bridge beginning Monday, February 26. According to ODOT, the scope of the Route. 531 lift bridge is repairing, replacing and painting rivets and bolts on the bridge. The contractor plans on using temporary signals for traffic control […]
An Ormond Beach home has flooded out at least three times, and the federal government keeps paying for it to be rebuilt or repaired. The owners asked FEMA to raise their property, but instead, the feds keep throwing money toward renovations– not mitigation. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Investigative Reporter Ashlyn Webb found thousands […]
Officials will block off a lane of traffic on the interstate in Lexington Friday to conduct emergency repairs on a damaged guardrail, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The lane closure will take place in the southbound lanes of I-75 just after mile-marker 118, according to the transportation cabinet. The right lane will be blocked […]
Russian investigators inspect a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 passenger plane following its emergency landing in a field last September – Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP On an unassuming piece of farmland next to a forest in Novosibirsk, Siberia, a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 carrying 165 people last September was forced to crash land in a field of wheat. […]
SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Dodging potholes isn’t fun, but it’s nothing compared to hitting them. A massive pothole on Highway 109 in Sumner County means several people are staring down costly repairs. Christopher Jackson’s Tuesday was off to a rocky start. Potholes in Tennessee: Everything you need to know “I was expecting to go […]
New York’s crumbling roads and potholes cost the state’s drivers $8.7 billion — an average of $715 — in repairs, fuel and wear and tear last year, according to an annual report by a national transportation research group. The TRIP report used state and federal data to calculate the economic impact poorly maintained roads have […]
Feb. 4—Related Photo Gallery: Backlog of repairs plagues UH Manoa student housing as officials try for revitalization For the first week last fall that Dalton Barcus lived in his student housing apartment in Hale Wainani on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, he had no hot water, only cold water flowing from the taps. […]
PROVIDENCE − Semi-trucks and other heavy vehicles over five tons are being asked to avoid the Henderson Bridge by the City of Providence, as Gano Street is about to undergo repairs. In social media posts, the city is declaring that a local detour is an effect “until further notice” and that the Henderson Bridge is […]
Drivers may experience delays on Interstate 75 in Montgomery County during the overnight hours on Friday. >>Man in custody after firing shots in front of deputies, locking himself in apartment The Ohio Department of Transportation will be out patching potholes in each direction on Interstate 75 from U.S. 35 to State Route 725 between now […]