August 2007

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Well-constructed link

Aug. 26, 2007
Pioneering ideas used in building the Pennsylvania Turnpike were later used in building the nation’s Interstate Highway System. This fact adds a touch of poetic justice to efforts...
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Foaming over Washington

Aug. 15, 2007
While there may be no perfect solution to any engineering challenge, this replacement bridge is about as close as one could get.
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Design drive-in

Aug. 15, 2007
Let me check to make sure I have my driver’s license. Yup, it’s still there. After the experience I had at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center in Virginia earlier this...
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A triple effect

Aug. 15, 2007
The U.S. 75 underpass at Churchill Way in Dallas—a three-span continuous, tangent, steel-tub girder bridge—not only demonstrates the efficiencies of collaboration between architecture...
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Diamond de Triumph

Aug. 15, 2007
Over the next few years, Kansas City traffic will improve—and it has Paris to thank. A diverging diamond interchange (DDI), born in the City of Lights in the mid-1970s, is currently...

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Sand Blasting

Aug. 14, 2007
Managing traffic is like pouring sand through a funnel. Pour at the right rate, and you’ll get a good flow. Dump the whole bag in at once, and the funnel clogs up. “Until now,...
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Have a little faith

Aug. 14, 2007
Who’s the boss? Husbands, how would you like to be held responsible for your wife’s driving, even when you’re not with her in the car? If so, then the 650 followers of The First...
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States take a smoother route

Aug. 14, 2007
Analyze pavement profile data with greater ease and improve your pavement smoothness with the help of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Pavement Profile Viewing and ...
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Diesel Dilemma

Aug. 14, 2007
His only option was to spit it out. Fresh off the dentist’s chair, Rick James, executive vice president with Adams Construction Co., Roanoke, Va., knew providing answers to a ...
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United into teams

Aug. 14, 2007
Motorists drive nearly 15 million miles every day on Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise’s (FTE) highways. It’s an unrelenting pounding on the Turnpike Enterprise’s pavement that keeps...
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Holding back

Aug. 14, 2007
Last month, I highlighted a project letting in Delaware under the design-build contracting methodology. That case illustrated the need for state highway departments to educate...
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P-P-P-Promise?

Aug. 14, 2007
When the state of Texas highway department signed a pioneering agreement with the Cintra-Zachry road construction consortium in March 2005 to build and operate a 600-mile toll...
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The diesel derby

Aug. 14, 2007
As the screwdriver dug in, twisted and pried, I knew the demand change from officials would take at least a second or two off my run down the sleek stretch of timber.