Infrastructure

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Friday announced new design standards for certain city infrastructure projects that offer environmental benefits. The main focus of the designs will be something many people walk by without much thought – curb extensions. The idea is to build new curb extensions, which improve pedestrian safety but traditionally create small, otherwise unusable paved spaces, with green…

The constellation of highway tunnels beneath Boston, some of which are more than half a century old, are in line for more than $15 million in repairs to plug leaks and patch up worn-down surfaces. State transportation officials on Wednesday approved a $15.3 million contract with SPS New England Inc. for maintenance on a quartet of tunnels that together carry…

A Lynn, Massachusetts, business owner is going head to head with the MBTA and their fight has ended up in court.  Cisco Meneses, the owner of roughly 20 storefronts on Mount Vernon Street, claims the deteriorating Mount Vernon Street Bridge is the reason why he can’t open any of his businesses. The businesses are located directly under the bridge...

Crumbling concrete, exposed rebar, and rusted steel. That’s what pictures from an inspection report obtained through an open records request show on one of the most traveled bridges in the state.   Known simply as structure #111, a bridge on the Massachusetts turnpike in Allston is the gateway to Boston.  “That is a structurally deficient bridge that we put a...

Shortly after Air Force One touched down on the Boston Logan International Airport tarmac late Monday morning, President Joe Biden declared that the federal infrastructure law his administration is implementing will be “the most significant investment” since President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plan for the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s and will kick off “an infrastructure decade” from coast...

The White House released new details Wednesday about President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Massachusetts next week. Biden will travel to Boston “to deliver remarks on the Cancer Moonshot and the goal of ending cancer as we know it,” the White House said in a statement. His remarks will take place on the 60th anniversary of President John F....

President Joe Biden will swing through Boston in mid-September, the White House announced Tuesday. The trip on Monday, Sept. 12, will let Biden “discuss the unprecedented investments in his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that are building a better America,” according to an announcement. It didn’t say where in Boston Biden would be or who he’d be traveling with. The $1 trillion…

You can find a relationship between any three things by asking the right questions and connecting the dots. In this final episode of the Connect the Dots series, Teneille Gibson explains the link between the sneakers you wear, the wine you drink and the trains you ride.

The Massachusetts House took a major step Thursday toward injecting billions of dollars into work on the state’s transportation and environmental infrastructure, sending to the Senate a rewritten borrowing bill that includes hundreds of millions of dollars to fix glaring safety issues at the MBTA and explore a rail expansion in western Massachusetts. The House voted 155-0 in favor...

Inflation is taking a toll on infrastructure projects across the U.S. Rising prices for materials such as asphalt, steel and iron pipes are driving up the costs to build roads, bridges, rail lines and water mains.

Traveling between downtown Boston and East Boston, including Logan International Airport, is about to become even more of a headache. A major, year-plus rehabilitation project in the Sumner Tunnel, which is in a state of “disrepair” 87 years after it opened as the first traffic tunnel in Massachusetts, is set to kick off Friday night.

The Biden administration is taking a key step to ensure federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced $2.9 billion for competitive grants designed to improve U.S. transportation infrastructure.

More than a third of bridges need repairs, and over 43,000 are “structurally deficient,” says the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

Shipping is a key component of U.S. trade but America has some of the least efficient ports in the world, according to a World Bank and IHS Markit study.

According to RWE, the H2opZee project will produce green hydrogen using offshore wind.

Massachusetts can look forward to an influx of about $9.5 billion to help build and repair its transportation systems under the federal infrastructure law approved last year, Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday.

President Joe Biden is urging U.S. governors to ramp up their construction plans as his administration rolls out a guidebook for accessing the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal

President Joe Biden met Friday with first responders in Pittsburgh at the site of a bridge that collapsed earlier that day. After learning that a passerby helped rescue motorists who were trapped in their car, Biden said, “It really is [a miracle]— it’s astounding.”

President Joe Biden is visiting the collapsed bridge in Pittsburgh that fell just hours before his previously scheduled trip to promote his infrastructure package — a new law that aims to prevent just such disasters