June 1996

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TRUCK TRACKS

Dec. 28, 2000
General Motors (GM), which has been absent from its role as a giant in the big vehicle business, has launched an ambitious comeback campaign. The comeback will be driven by new...
Snow Control

Snowfighters gather in Salt Lake City

Dec. 28, 2000
The beautiful snow-capped Wastach Mountains provided a stunning and appropriate setting for the American Public Works Association's 1996 Snow Conference, and furnished a constant...
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LAW: The Contractor's Side

Dec. 28, 2000
In last month's LAW column (May, 1996, I offered opinions on how a constitutional analysis of Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) programs...
Interstate System

Celebrating the interstate

Dec. 28, 2000
Like many celebrations in Louisiana, festivities involving the completion of I­p;49 in the Pelican State revolved around food, music and politics. The celebration, which included...
Interstate System

First person: Frank Turner

Dec. 28, 2000
Frank Turner is a man who should need no introduction. However, this self-effacing man-Turner begins most sentences with the pronoun "we," as in "We decided to ...

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Interstate System

Origins of the Interstates

Dec. 28, 2000
In 1673, two French explorers, Louis Jolliet and Père Jacques Marquette paddled their canoes down the St. Lawrence River in search of a water route to the Mississippi River...
Interstate System

Interstate system arrives at crossroads

Dec. 28, 2000
As America observes the 40th anniversary of its Interstate Highway System in 1996, we are truly at a crossroads in laying the foundation for our nation's transportation system...
Infrastructure Security

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Dec. 28, 2000
The highway industry has long referred to the process of snow and ice control with military connotations, hence the phrase, "snow and ice fighting". Until recently the logistics...
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Democrats and Republicans jockey for position on gas-tax reduction

Dec. 28, 2000
There are probably few cynics who have failed to notice the "coincidental" timing between the current talk of repealing the 4.3 cents-per-gal motor-fuel tax and the ...