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Connecticut, Delaware DOTs take home top honors in 2025 America’s Transportation Awards competition

November 24th, 2025

A rapid bridge emergency repair project in Connecticut and a Delaware project that widened a widely used corridor while enhancing pedestrian and bicycle access won top honors at the 2025 America’s Transportation Awards competition. Photo courtesy of AASHTO. The Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Fairfield Avenue Bridge project won the contest’s Grand Prize, while the Delaware […]

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Delaware governor establishes transportation funding task force

October 10th, 2025

Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer has signed an executive order establishing the Delaware Task Force on Sustainable Transportation Funding to address long-term challenges facing the state’s Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) and ensure Delaware’s infrastructure remains strong, reliable and sustainable for decades to come. “Our roads and bridges connect Delawareans to jobs, schools, […]

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Majeski steps down as Delaware DOT secretary, Hastings named acting secretary

December 18th, 2024

On December 21, Nicole Majeski will step down as secretary of the Delaware Department of Transportation, with Governor John Carney (D) naming Shanté Hastings, the agency’s deputy secretary and chief engineer, as acting secretary. Nicole Majeski. Photo courtesy of Delaware DOT. “The Delaware DOT impacts every single resident and visitor in our state,” said the […]

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New chair, vice chair for AASHTO design committee

July 13th, 2023

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has appointed Shanté Hastings (right) from the Delaware Department of Transportation to a two-year term as chair of the Committee on Design. The organization also named Marshall Elizer from the Washington State Department of Transportation to a two-year term as the committee’s vice chair. Shanté […]

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