Given the increased scrutiny of state and federal environmental agencies over projects let by state highway departments across the country during the last few years, I am frequently...
Roads & Bridges magazine will be partnering with the Asphalt Recycling and Reclaiming Association (ARRA) on a series of industry awards. The awards will honor road projects in...
The reconstruction project of the Troup Howell Bridge in Rochester, N.Y., features a dramatic, context-sensitive design highlighted by a new and unique 132-m-long tri-rib arch...
Waste not, crash a lot Police in West Yarmouth, Mass., were a little suspicious when Ann Biglin blamed her car accident on some old coffee cups. After all, how do a few paper...
Most of an agency’s highway budget is used to rehabilitate the existing system. The ultimate goal of every pavement rehabilitation project is to match the correct rehab strategy...
It must take a few years to wash out an entire bucket of pig blood. After he was doused with humiliation days after the 2000 election, Al Gore painfully swallowed his hopes of...
Reading the news story, someone might think: There’s got to be a Humpty Dumpty joke here somewhere. (Humpty Peregrine sat on a bridge . . .) Recent newspaper accounts reported...
Concern for the environment and diminishing supplies of aggregates and petroleum products have made asphalt recycling an attractive option for highway agencies. In addition to...
With traffic congestion and delays a top concern of motorists nationwide, accomplishing needed roadway construction and rehabilitation work rapidly and with minimal public disruption...
As we begin to establish ourselves in the 21st century, it is becoming more and more clear that all things as we know them are in fact getting older. The first paved roads began...
Chunks of concrete can come from bridges or from anyone crossing the street. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) was trying to sort out legitimate claims from the...
When Denver set out to complete the connection between downtown and the booming, historic Highland neighborhood across the interstate, no ordinary span would do. City leaders ...
When the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) initiated planning for the reconstruction of 3.7 miles of I-4 through Tampa, it resolved to use an approach that also would...