August 2005

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Can't We All Just Get Along?

April 2, 2007
Simple misunderstanding A motorist trying to run from an “evil cloud” said that he doesn’t regret driving his pickup into four other vehicles while speeding down a busy one-way...
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From S.O.S. Back to SAS

April 2, 2007
By the end of 2004, the California state legislature did everything but call in the crew from Extreme Home Makeover. The state’s seismic retrofit program was being torpedoed by...
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Paying a lot for utilities

Aug. 8, 2005
Prime contractors and subcontractors are frequently delayed by the failure of utilities to move their lines that interfere with the work in a timely manner. Can you recover for...
Road Maintenance

Mud Therapy

Aug. 2, 2005
A long-standing joke among Vermonters is that the year is composed of the following four seasons: summer, fall, winter and mud. Mud season is that time of year between late March...
Asphalt

Starting to Warm

Aug. 2, 2005
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) and the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) are working with material suppliers...

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A questionable move

Aug. 2, 2005
“Mr. President! Mr. President! Over here Mr. President!” “Yes, the tall one. Um, I don’t know your name . . . but . . .” “Mr. President, when will this administration legitimately...
Road Construction

Scratching the Surface

Aug. 2, 2005
The nation’s low-volume road network can be compared to the Energizer Bunny . . . it just goes on and on, providing a valuable link between rural communities and markets, schools...
Transportation Management

Care to Share?

Aug. 2, 2005
Traffic calming was born in the streets of the Netherlands in the late 1960s as a reaction to the rapid increase in traffic volumes and the accompanying deterioration in the livability...
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From S.O.S. back to SAS

Aug. 2, 2005
By the end of 2004, the California state legislature did everything but call in the crew from Extreme Home Makeover. The state’s seismic retrofit program was being torpedoed by...
Road Construction

Omaha's Insurance

Aug. 2, 2005
More than 105,000 vehicles enter the intersection of 114th Street and West Dodge Road each day, making it the busiest intersection in Omaha, Neb. With traffic on West Dodge projected...
Highway Construction

Taking Control in the nation's capital

Aug. 2, 2005
Five years ago, under a different president, the nation’s capital began to undergo a complete facelift under unfamiliar circumstances. In July 2000, the District of Columbia Department...
Bridge Construction

Engineered Sculpture

Aug. 2, 2005
There are times when the two dimensions of a piece of paper—whether physical or electronic—are not enough to convey what something looks like or how it can be taken apart into...