• Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • Magazine
  • Home >
  • Back Issues >
  • Roads and Bridges >
  • July 2010

    • July 2010

    Editorial/Commentary

    Strike against them

    July 21, 2011
    I knew there was another side to Ms. Perrone, and it came blaring out from the obnoxious side of a megaphone. It was during the great teachers’ strike of my time, one that lasted...
    Traffic MarkingStriping

    Not for the faint

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Pavement Marking Removal Stripe Hog SH8000 The city of El Paso, Texas, had a very costly problem. Because of the extreme summer ...
    Asphalt

    Mann up

    July 15, 2010
    British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is tackling a traffic nightmare. Congestion is part of any urban area, but the Vancouver area’s complex river ...
    Asphalt

    Smoothing it out

    July 15, 2010
    Research studies have shown that smooth asphalt pavements are a “win-win.” Not only does the public want smooth pavements to drive on, they last longer. That’s why state transportation...
    Road Construction

    Sugar additive

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Concrete Pavers GOMACO Commander III A new 2-mile-long, four-lane road is being built in the city of Honolulu on Hawaii’s Oahu island...

    More content from July 2010

    Asphalt

    Cause for celebration

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Asphalt Milling Machines Roadtec RX-900 Recently marking its 20th year in operation, Broomfield, Conn.-based Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming...
    Home

    Claim insurance

    July 15, 2010
    The dispute process in public contracts begins with the submission of a formal written claim. An issue that sometimes arises in public contract litigation is whether the matters...
    Equipment

    TIMED nicely

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Silver Medal Winner - Asphalt Milling Machines Wirtgen W 2200/12 A big cold mill with a full-lane cutter drum was helping a contractor meet tight deadlines...
    Maintenance

    On top of the slide

    July 15, 2010
    Boulders, some as big as tractor-trailers, pummeled I-70 in Glenwood Canyon in early March, leaving the only east-west Rocky Mountain artery closed for four days. One week after...
    Home

    Takes all types

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Concrete Curb and Gutter GOMACO Commander III Niko Projects Inc. has been a family owned company since 1980, specializing in slipformed...
    Earthmoving

    Omaha life

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Silver Medal Winner - Mini Excavators Bobcat 335 Building retaining walls is tough work. There are long trenches to dig and heavy block to be lifted...
    Asphalt

    Strong following

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Skid-Steer Loaders Bobcat S330 While they’re not the stars of the show, skid-steer loaders definitely earn kudos in a supporting...
    Asphalt Paving

    A Holland opus

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Asphalt Pavers Caterpillar AP-1055D Time and traffic had taken a toll on the Holland Tunnel, the four-lane I-78 thoroughfare connecting...
    Bridges

    9 Mile to go

    July 15, 2010
    On an otherwise typical summer evening in Detroit, a chain of fateful events took place which would ultimately cause a bridge to come crashing to the freeway below.
    Safety

    Expensive painting

    July 15, 2010
    Storing a heavy order of traffic paint under a mattress sounds downright silly, if not impossible. Sleeping next to it certainly is not out of the question, and it probably was...
    Equipment

    Bobcat claws into big prey

    July 15, 2010
    The most common request from customers is for more power, a Bobcat representative told the assembled press at a June event in Atlanta. The company’s response was to beef up its...
    Highway Maintenance

    Jump start in Brooklyn

    July 15, 2010
    Reconstruction of the aged Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) is still years away, but residents are not waiting to protest. The expressway was built in 1954 with an expected life...
    Bridges

    59-degree heat

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Bridge Pavers/Finishers Bid-Well 4800 A 172-ft bridge over railroad tracks in a sleepy Southern town typically doesn’t pose much...
    Runway Construction

    The same two

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Concrete Saws Husqvarna FS 8400 D
    Concrete

    Stay good

    July 15, 2010
    Pavement management can be defined as the process of overseeing the maintenance and repair of a network of roadways at or above established values, within budget constraints, ...
    Roads Report

    Creatures great and small

    July 15, 2010
    Ribbiting story As if they didn’t have enough problems in Greece, a busy northern highway was shut down for two hours in May when a horde of tiny frogs took over the road. A traffic...
    Home

    Strike against them

    July 14, 2010
    I knew there was another side to Ms. Perrone, and it came blaring out from the obnoxious side of a megaphone. It was during the great teachers’ strike of my time, one that lasted...