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  • April 2002

    • April 2002

    Asphalt

    Full cooperation

    April 18, 2002
    Calling it “a big project” would be an understatement—because it is bigger than that, much bigger. Try this on for size: The Big I Reconstruction Project in Albuquerque, N.M.,...
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    Arizona diamond

    April 18, 2002
    As I placed my tape recorder on the table, FHWA Administrator Mary Peters promised to hold her paper shuffling to a minimum. She didn’t want to create any kind of disturbance....
    Bridges

    A quick survey

    April 18, 2002
    Using Cyrax scanning technology, David Evans and Associates Inc. (DEA), Denver, surveyed 24 bridges in 40 days without disrupting traffic on the heavily traveled I-25 through ...
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    Monuments to a life

    April 18, 2002
    Eugene Figg Jr., P.E., was scheduled to accept the American Society of Civil Engineering’s highest honor, the Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award (OPAL), on April 27....
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    We need different chips

    April 18, 2002
    Ever try salt-and-pepper potato chips? For five hours I was sitting in the middle seat of an airplane (for those who don’t know, I’m 6’5”), watching &#...

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    Safety

    New for work zones this year

    April 18, 2002
    Exhibitors at Traffic Expo 2002, held Feb. 10-12 in Dallas,received free commercial time during the new product press conference. The following is a complete summary of items ...
    Infrastructure Security

    Just drive!

    April 18, 2002
    An automatic machine control system probably won’t turn an earthmover into the killdozer of horror movie fame, but it might make the equipment seem as though it has a mind of ...
    Asphalt

    Iowa’s playing field

    April 18, 2002
    It’s the kind of road that wouldn’t even make a squirrel stop dead in its tracks. Route P46 in Ringgold County, Iowa, isn’t a haven for fast, confusing traffic. The road carries...
    Concrete Roads

    Fit to overlap

    April 18, 2002
    During the summer of 2001, an innovative remedy was applied to a 5.5-mile section of I-40 in eastern Oklahoma. The project specified dowel bar retrofitting and overlaying an existing...