Our Scans · (42110) Construction Of Roads & Motorways · Weekly Summary

• By the end of this century, coastal floods could affect more than 700,000 people, $250 billion in assets, and essential services and infrastructure including wastewater treatment plants, freeways, and bridge footings. Public Policy Institute of California
• For freeway fighters, state governments are the new battlegrounds, at least until 2025, when Congress will begin to consider the next big infrastructure bill. / USA Fast Company
• Baidu plans to provide centimeter-level HD map services on freeways and typical urban roads in three to five years, and make its integrated mobility service platform available in about 10 cities. / China Research and Markets
• A construction project on Interstate 10 through Houston will likely impact traffic for the next several years starting today. CDLLife
• Over the next nine months, crews will complete thousands of projects on Victoria's road network, ranging from road rehabilitation and resurfacing, to patching potholes and maintaining bridges, traffic lights, signage and road infrastructure. Infrastructure Magazine
• Another OCTA project for 2023 that will not include construction, but will improve people's ability to get around is increased bus service. Orange County Register
• Late in 2023, the Transportation Corridor Agencies expect to begin construction on a transition from the 241 toll road straight onto the 91 Express Lanes. Orange County Register
• In Segment 3, Telegraph Road in Santa Fe Springs to I-10 is set to begin in spring 2024, and construction will include 93 lane miles of new pavement, upgrading more than 16,000 linear feet of guardrail and replacing 16 overhead sign structures. San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• Across Interstate 10, Interstate 17 and other prominent Phoenix-area freeways, road improvement construction is expected to begin or continue in 2023. The Arizona Republic
• Long Beach will get $30 million under the federal infrastructure law to move back freeway lanes from elementary schools and expand a public park. Los Angeles Times
• Because of California's mountain terrain, residents could be isolated after a large earthquake - especially if one occurred along the San Andreas - because freeways connecting California to neighboring states Nevada and Arizona could be severely damaged or destroyed. Julian Construction
• The cost estimate for a proposed mega freeway across the Columbia has ballooned to $5 billion to $7.5 billion, and planners will soon ask Oregon taxpayers for a $1 billion dollar down payment to start construction. oregonlive
• IIJA funding for projects such as $1 billion dedicated to removing freeways built through poor neighborhoods of color in the 1960s (originally $20 billion) pale in comparison to the hundreds of billions which will be spent to expand the highway system in America in the next decade. Strong Towns
• Boyle Heights in Los Angeles persists today as a community of well-kept small homes and apartment buildings, despite the disruption by freeway construction decades ago. City Journal
• Just renovating the social housing sector would require an additional €13 billion investment per year until 2050, without considering the private rental sector or poor homeowners. Institut Jacques Delors
• C40 Cities is pushing the European Commission to commit to retrofitting 6 million homes in 2023, which would boost the current housing renovation rate from 1% to 3%. news.trust.org
• Increasing ecological awareness and the urgent need to renovate an aged housing stock will play its part in driving UK sales of wood fibre based insulation into the main stream. Mike Wye

Last updated: 18 June 2026