Circuit Judge Morgan "Chip" Welch ruled today against the plaintiffs in a lawsuit contending that the Arkansas Department of Transportation couldn't spend money on freeway projects wider than four lanes.
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is reporting that portions of Interstate 30 in Clark and Nevada counties are closed due to high water and smaller roads in Howard, Hempstead, Pike, Nevada, Yell and Searcy counties are closed as a result of the continuing rainfall.
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Transportation’s $1 billion project to widen seven miles of Interstate 30 have dropped their request for a preliminary injunction at this stage of the lawsuit.
The expected lawsuit was filed today to stop the 30 Crossing project, a billion-dollar plan to widen 7.3 miles of the Interstate 30 corridor through Little Rock and North Little Rock.
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott's take-charge approach surfaces this morning on a bigger issue than media policy — negotiations between the city and the Arkansas Department of Transportation on an agreement concerning the Big Concrete Ditch project through the heart of Little Rock.
The Arkansas legislature is taking a spring break but that doesn't mean you should stop worrying. A couple of additions to your worries — one grinds the poor, the other helps the rich.
Interesting tidbit from the weekly posting of the Little Rock City Board agenda: A resolution to commit $3.8 million in city spending to mitigate impact of the controversial Interstate 30 expansion project, whose design is now uncertain. After my inquiry, it appears there'll be at least a delay in consideration of the resolution.
The Arkansas Department of Transportation has announced it's at work installing signs intended to remind people not to block the lefthand lane on multi-lane roads.
The Arkansas Highway Department issued a news release yesterday announcing the Highway Commission had selected the Kiewit-Massman Constructors combine to build the 30 Crossing project through downtown Little Rock. The news release obscured major developments — a dramatic shortage of money likely means a dramatic change in scope of the project.
The suspension bridge in Carroll County that became infamous thanks to a video of it sagging under an overweight load, has reopened to traffic (10-ton limit). So says the Department of Transportation, which had closed it for more inspection.