Getting the Job Done Right

Better Roads Staff - Feb 05, 2013

kirk.landers@att.net By Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus Some people just know how to sell. In mid-December, Ohio governor John R. Kasich and the leaders of Ohio’s Department of Transportation and Turnpike Authority announced that the state would raise $3 billion for roads without ...

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

Better Roads Staff - Dec 01, 2012

One More Letter to Write By Kirk Landers With another bitterly contentious election under our belts, most Americans would like to live in a world without politicians and robocalls and super PACs for at least a little while. But for people in ...

Truck-related fatalities up 8.7% in 2010

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Dec 08, 2011

While overall highway deaths in 2010 were at the lowest level since 1949, truck-related fatalities increased for the first time in three years, the U.S. Transportation Department announced Dec. 8. Truck-involved deaths rose 8.7 percent ...

RoadWorks: Inside the Highway and Bridge Industry

Brooke Wisdom - Apr 01, 2010

Go Ahead, Tax Us, We Need the Infrastructure. By John Lattta, Tina Grady Barbaccia and Tom Anderson A nother major transportation industry is prepared to support a hefty tax increase on itself to help provide the healthy infrastructure it must have. Barge operators are ...