Tag: Montana Department of Transportation
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How to Move a Really Big Truck
By Evelyn Pyburn So how do you move a 148,000 pound dump truck with 9-foot tall tires from a mine site to the fairgrounds? In pieces. And, using other really big trucks and a crane. The CAT 777F that Westmoreland Mining Company is bringing to Dig It Days at Montana Fair cannot just be driven…
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Construction Projects will Transform Travel Around Billings
by Evelyn Pyburn In the coming decade there is much that is going to change about travel through the Billings I-90 corridor. Interchanges will change, highways broadened and bridges reconstructed – all are projects in the planning stages, with some already underway. While much has been heard about the improvements planned to the I-90/ Johnson…
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Five Mile Road Open to the Public
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) announced that Five Mile Road is now open to the public. Finishing work taking place will include epoxy striping in mid-September and final seeding and erosion control blankets in mid-October.
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MDT Seeks to Rehab 94 Corridor
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) would like to notify the public and seek comments on a proposal to rehabilitate 10 bridges within the Interstate 94 corridor in Yellowstone County. The bridges are located between mile posts 14 and 21, starting at Ballantine and continuing to approximately 2.5 miles west of Pompeys Pillar. Proposed work…
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Bypass Won’t be Bypass
The Billings Bypass will not be called the Billings Bypass. Maybe it will be called the Lockwood-Heights Commerce Park Way. The Montana Department of Transportation will name the proposed section of highway that will connect Johnson Lane in Lockwood to the Heights near the junction of Highways 312 and 87, west of Main Street. But…
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Planning Department Identifies Priorities
The Policy Coordinating Committee that serves Yellowstone County and Billings approved the 2020 Billings Urban Area Unified Planning Work Program for the planning department, this month. The Work Program lays out the budget, and priority transportation and land use projects that the planning department staff will be focused upon in 2020. Scott Walker, the transportation…
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Becraft Sidewalk Construction To Begin September 9
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) will be constructing sidewalk along approximately 0.76 miles of Becraft Lane in Lockwood, starting Sept. 9 The project begins at the intersection of Becraft Lane and Old Hardin Road and runs east on the north side of Becraft Lane to the intersection of Becraft Lane and Noblewood Drive. Work includes…