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    • June 2010

    Compaction

    Weather related

    July 15, 2010
    Contractor's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner - Compaction Caterpillar CS56 Fuzz Bates, vice president of Weaver Brothers Construction of Concord, N.H., is familiar with the challenges...
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    For Internal Use

    June 9, 2010
    Highway work zones can include everything from opening a manhole on a city street to building an interstate cloverleaf, and the road construction and maintenance industry has ...
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    All of the Signs

    June 9, 2010
    The clock is ticking. By Jan. 1, 2012, all municipalities must have inspected all of the roadway signs in their jurisdiction for retroreflectivity and entered the data in a sign...
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    Estimated Wait Time

    June 9, 2010
    Much of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways are more than 30 years old. As the National Highway System (NHS) continues to age and reach...
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    Flood Warning

    June 8, 2010
    I came across a case decided by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that I thought would serve as a good reminder to contractors bidding public projects of the risks they assume ...

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    Highway Construction Cost Escalation

    June 8, 2010
    Until 2004 (Q2), highway construction cost escalation followed general inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Since then, the variance between Parsons Brinckerhoff...
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    Taking Credit

    June 8, 2010
    Greenroads is a tool that will change the roads we drive on.
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    Create a Diversion

    June 8, 2010
    Integrating a travel time-based traffic diversion plan with a cost-effective work schedule can substantially reduce both costs and congestion. Traffic congestion cost drivers ...
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    The Hidden Costs of Driving

    June 8, 2010
    Dubious distinctions In Michigan they say that the roads are actually safer during the snowy winters because all of the potholes finally get filled in. A group called the Michigan...
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    Road on the Super Bowl

    June 8, 2010
    The Super Bowl of NASCAR does not have comical commercial breaks to fall back on, but it put on one heck of a halftime quiz show last February.
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    Circling Ahead

    June 8, 2010
    The American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) tried something bold and different during its recent 40th Annual Convention and Traffic Expo in San Antonio, Texas. For...
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    Sweetened Sour

    June 8, 2010
    It was a dark, evil night in 1978, and Darth Vader was running with his cape between his legs.
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    Practical Purposes

    June 8, 2010
    On time, on budget and a minimum number of headaches—in a nutshell, those are the marks of a successful transportation project. That’s the conventional wisdom, anyway, but in ...
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    Camera Ready

    June 8, 2010
    Automated speed photo enforcement (SPE) systems have been extensively used in Europe; however, in the U.S. Illinois was the first state to use the system in work zones. The Illinois...
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    From Spike To Splat?

    June 8, 2010
    Recovery and reinvestment appears to be headed toward a cease and desist. The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) decided to gauge the construction industry during...
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    Airtight Approach

    June 8, 2010
    Crumbling. Rickety. Unsafe. However one chooses to describe the poor state of the country’s roads and bridges, one thing is clear: Deteriorating infrastructure is a major issue...
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    Race to Nothing

    June 8, 2010
    When the first reports of the bus crash on I-90 started coming through last fall, everyone expected it was going to be a tough day. On Nov. 18, 2009, at about 3 p.m., a bus full...