Happy 250th Birthday to the United States! One way to look at FHWA is like a giant referee, making sure the States do what they are required to do under law.
Category - Stories
The engineering, history, and people behind remarkable bridges.
In March 2026, the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge made history as the first floating bridge ever to carry light rail. Turning that idea into reality required solving a set of engineering challenges unlike anything attempted...
Take the Motor City, a billionaire, add two bridges and a little hockey, and you've got enough drama for two bridge stories—nearly a century apart—all in one blog post!
We need to rethink transportation and reassess its value to our society. Before we start building new stuff or trying to save the fish through transportation, we need to fix what we have. We have billions of dollars of high value...
Talk dirty to me...engineering edition. The necessary, the naughty and the absurd in professional terminology.
Some of our greatest achievements in bridge engineering occur as a result of disasters like the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Coming soon to a boot shaped peninsula near you - groundbreaking for the world's longest suspension bridge.
How did one Army mission help establish the Interstate Highway System? Happy New Year from TheBridgeGuy!
This is the story of President George Washington's formative days and one of the first bridges in the nation dedicated to his legacy.
Four months in and I've already seen three of the six dams we have in the Seattle District. Learning all this dam jargon has sure been tough.