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    Bettern Service Through Better Technology

    March 22, 2007
    To better serve the changing needs of the transportation community, the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) National Highway Institute (NHI) has launched an updated website...
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    Force Into Action

    March 22, 2007
    By its nature, a fixed-price contract, including a unit-priced contract, allocates normal risk to the contractor. Thus, absent a contract clause favorable to the contractor, the...
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    Forward Vision

    March 22, 2007
    On June 29, retired Army Gen. Colin Powell was the honored speaker at the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s 50th anniversary of the interstate system dinner...
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    Power is Out

    March 22, 2007
    Wyoming has an abundance of coal and natural gas, but it doesn’t take an expert to see the effects of a serious energy crunch. All one has to do is drive the roads of the state...
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    Emergency!

    March 22, 2007
    WTHIGO? Pat Niples is used to people giggling. Nonetheless, Mrs. Niples was not prepared for the backlash that her vanity license plate would cause in her small central Ohio town...

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    Station Alert

    March 21, 2007
    Staticfuzzsquealclick . . . “You’re listening to 97.7, WROD, The Road. It’s currently 90 degrees at 9:17 and WROD is asking you to buckle up out there and stay clear of those ...
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    Network Futurevision

    Jan. 1, 2006
    The cornerstone for a future Washington regional bus rapid transit (BRT)/high-occupancy toll (HOT) lane network has been laid with the signing of a comprehensive agreement between...
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    On Not Having an Impact

    Jan. 1, 2006
    Over 40,000 people per year are killed in highway incidents in the U.S. It is a staggering number—enough people to fill at least one football stadium—but maybe not as shocking...
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    From Spray 2 Spread

    Jan. 1, 2006
    From the time I was a young kid traveling from Chisholm to Hibbing to see my grandmother or cousins who lived on Third Avenue, I can recall white-knuckling in that old rickety...
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    The Stainless-Steel City

    Jan. 1, 2006
    Bridge design engineers at Arup Hong Kong had a stringent requirement for materials that would be used on a significant portion of their city’s new, nearly 1-mile-long Stonecutters...