A state highway-planning panel on Tuesday recommended building interstate bridges over the Wisconsin River and a stretch of U.S. Highway 51 in Dane County while ending studies of two other projects.

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The coronavirus pandemic cost Wisconsin's transportation fund nearly $100 million through late June, a blow that's worse than agency officials had initially thought.

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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is seeking recommendations as it develops a 30-year master plan for transportation in Wisconsin.

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As is true for so many aspects of modern life, the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t so much revealed weaknesses in the state’s transportation as made long-recognized faults even more apparent.

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WisDOT has wrapped up its long-awaited reconstruction of Interstate 94 between Milwaukee and the Illinois state line on schedule and on budget.

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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has secured a $6.75 million federal grant for the final phase of a project to rehab the Merrimac Bridge between Columbia and Sauk Counties.

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Terry McGowan doesn't expect COVID-19 — and it's many ripple effects on Wisconsin's construction industry — to subside any time soon. The president and business manager of Wisconsin's largest construction union, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139, said his members have adapted quickly amid a spate of job site restrictions aimed at keeping Wisconsin's essential construction crews safe at work.

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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is adding projects to a pilot program meant to lessen the administrative burden entailed by local projects by simplifying the delivery of so-called low-risk road and bridge works.

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Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson said the state's coronavirus lockdown has cost the agency about $80 million in transportation revenue this spring, setting up tough choices for how to pay for roads in the years to come.

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The future of automated vehicles and getting drivers to put down their smart phones were among the topics discussed at the Mid-America Association of State Transportation Officers board of directors meeting in the nation’s capital last week.

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