March 2006

Passage of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) means that America can now begin looking ahead toward improving...

Pittsburgh won on the road long before the Steelers put together four straight white-jersey wins for the Super Bowl XL championship in January.

Bridges are beautiful, and you don’t have to be a civil engineer to recognize that. Bridges represent a living testimony to man’s achievement in conquering nature’s obstacles...

At any given moment in late April, Paris, France, just might drop a few notches in altitude. Fortunately, the shift will only be temporary. The week of April 24-29 is when some...

Transportation privatization is making headlines in the U.S. In October 2004, the city of Chicago signed a $1.8 billion contract with the Cintra-Macquarie Consortium (a partnership...

Department of transportation and county highway officials have long scrutinized budgets for projects such as road repaving and reconstruction projects, traffic management plans...

The Fulton Road Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, is a 70-year-old concrete arch bridge that for many years has carried a significant volume of traffic 100 ft above the Cleveland MetroParks...

Sometimes the key to success is putting in long hours. And sometimes, in order to be one of the best, you have to work around the clock. This year’s finalists for the Sheldon...

I’ll dress up as Bozo, but I can’t promise any balloon animals. I certainly would give it a shot, though, if it would excite and enthrall my son at a future birthday party. His...

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall over Louisiana and Mississippi as the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. In the days before the storm, it is estimated that...

When not repairing pavements and bridges, maintenance crews across the country also manage vegetation on 12 million acres of rights-of-way. With the explosion of many invasive...