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    • June 2007

    Paving

    Pavement in depth

    June 6, 2007
    Paving on the new Dan Ryan expressway was moving at a good pace on the May day when Roads & Bridges visited the site. Near 59th Street, haul trucks were lined up to deliver...
    GPS

    New digs

    June 6, 2007
    The Global Positioning System (GPS) is increasingly becoming the tool of choice for pinpointing specified locations on many construction projects, with causeways and bridge projects...
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    A better grip

    June 6, 2007
    Changes to the fall-protection equipment standard for general industry (ANSI Z359.1-1992 R1999) are under way. This benchmark standard, which has been incorporated into many industrial...
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    Life savings

    June 6, 2007
    No one will ever know exactly how many lives a guardrail will save during its lifetime. Or how many lives a wider stripe or a brighter sign will save. That is because millions...
    Tunnels

    Big believer

    June 6, 2007
    This year marks the 25th anniversary of Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel project, nicknamed the “Big Dig.” Records of project planning activity date all the way back to 1982, and...

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    Attack of the Drones

    June 6, 2007
    South Carolina is just completing a significant roadwork program where bonds have been leveraged so that 27 years of maintenance and construction activities could be completed...
    Transportation Management

    In for the long haul

    June 6, 2007
    In his 1955 State of the Union address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower advocated the importance of a national highway system to better our growing country. Ike proclaimed to Congress...
    Bridge Lighting

    Rainbow bridge

    June 6, 2007
    Glasgow’s fish must think they are having an acid flashback. Looking up from their watery habitat in the River Clyde at the Kingston Bridge, they are presented with a kaleidoscopic...
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    Water Marks

    June 6, 2007
    Pavement markings serve an important role in delineating the travel way and providing regulatory, warning and guidance information to drivers. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control...
    Highway Construction

    Still hyper active

    June 6, 2007
    How does the most heavily traveled interstate in Indiana get a face-lift and serve the needs of thousands of motorists at the same time? It takes years of planning, commitments...
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    Orange barrels full of money

    June 6, 2007
    It’s hard to argue against safety. No one, especially a highway or bridge contractor, wants to be considered responsible for someone’s injury or death, whether it is a crew member...
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    Spanning the news: bay bedlam

    June 5, 2007
    Robert Haus wasn’t dreaming when he heard the phone ring at 5:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Tom Hanks’ voice wasn’t on the other end, either. Still, during the fallout of the tanker...
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    Net benefit

    June 5, 2007
    Transportation agencies can make more informed, cost-effective decisions about highway projects with the help of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) new online benefit...
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    Land of the free

    June 5, 2007
    Freedom of plate Bumper stickers and hybrids go together like, well, flags and pick-up trucks. But when Heather Moriah of Rapid City, S.D., bought a Prius last summer, she tried...
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    Don’t sweat it

    June 5, 2007
    Today’s younger generation is far less likely to suffer from a bad case of sweaty hand. Back in the late-1980s day, when I had music pressed to my ear on a daily basis, my bulky...
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    Under cover

    June 5, 2007
    In nearly all public contracts and in the majority of private contracts, the owner assumes the risk of unforeseen subsurface site conditions, because owners figure that even the...