August 2009

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Design Innovation: Go-To List - Top Design Firms

Aug. 27, 2009
The third annual Roads & Bridges Go-To List for Design Firms contains the most recognized professionals in the industry divided into six categories. Roads & Bridges surveyed...
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Design Innovation: Well orchestrated

Aug. 18, 2009
Light-rail transit (LRT) may save its passengers time and aggravation, but it had the opposite effect on motorists using South Watt Avenue in Sacramento, Calif. During peak periods...
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Design Innovation: Two-state solution

Aug. 18, 2009
I-5 is a vital thread of highway, knitting together the three West Coast states, Canada and Mexico. It also is a key transportation corridor for local travel between Portland,...
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Design Innovation: Clinging to new ways

Aug. 18, 2009
The Sea-to-Sky Highway is consistently cited as one of the most scenic drives in North America. As part of Highway 99 that stretches between West Vancouver and Whistler, B.C.,...
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Fraught with freight

Aug. 14, 2009
Interstate highways around Montgomery, Ala., are about to be slammed with thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of extra trucks every month, but it isn’t because Montgomery is growing...

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Serving notice

Aug. 14, 2009
Courts in many states recognize exceptions and permit a contractor to pursue a claim against the government in the absence of formal written notice of intent if the government...
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Bad last name

Aug. 14, 2009
There is a reason why I do not sign this column “Scooter.” Aside from the whole professionalism factor, the name digs dirty fingernails into every fiber of my being. For a brief...
Bridges

Astride the iron horse

Aug. 14, 2009
The new Fourth Street Bridge in Pueblo, Colo., will cross over the vast Pueblo Railroad Yard with 28 sets of active rail tracks while maintaining a critical route through the ...
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All on board

Aug. 14, 2009
During June 2009, state and local transportation agencies obligated $3.2 billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) highway funds for highway or other eligible projects...
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Moving history to the present

Aug. 14, 2009
As one of the nation’s most charming and historic cities, Savannah, Ga., like many coastal communities in the Southeast, has experienced unprecedented growth that has strained...
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Danger built in

Aug. 14, 2009
Deficient roadway conditions contribute to more than half of U.S. highway fatalities and 38% of nonfatal injuries, according to a recent study. The roadway environment is a substantiall...
Infrastructure Security

Pocket change

Aug. 14, 2009
If you talk shop you better restock the shelves. That is, if you still want a job. During his campaign run of 2008, Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate in over...
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At loggerheads

Aug. 14, 2009
Crikey, what a clanger Ruth Ducker had legally parked her car on a street around the corner from her London home for two years. One day this past winter, the city commissioned...