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Celebrating 80 Years of Better Roads

November 10, 2011

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From the mostly gravel roads that existed when the magazine was founded to today’s super highways, there has been extensive development, technology and building of local roads, state and federal ...

$745 million from U.S. DOT slated for Northeast Corridor construction

August 24, 2011

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Aug. 22 announced nearly $745 million for construction along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) to upgrade some of the most heavily-used sections. The ...

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

December 01, 2010

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Please keep telling anyone and everyone you can about the need for proper funding of infrastructure, including but not exclusively highways and bridges.

Bridge Collapses in Minnesota II

October 20, 2010

This is one of those stories I have to be careful with. The basic story is that a milling machine toppled partly into water when a section of the river ...

Upon further review — a Stimulus update

September 29, 2010

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has released a new report on the Recovery Act, arguing with numbers and project stories that the Stimulus is working ...

Dirty Job’s Mike Rowe launches AEM campaign

September 29, 2010

Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” joined forces today in Washington, D.C. for the launch of I Make America, a ...

TRIP: Show N.H. the money for failing bridges, roads

June 21, 2010

One-third of New Hampshire’ major roads are deteriorated, 32 percent of the state’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and more than half of the state’s roads are congested ...

Lura offers screed system as free trial to DOTs

June 10, 2010

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Lura Enterprises, manufacturer of The Lightning Strike Concrete Screed System is offering DOT bridge and road maintenance crews the opportunity to try out its screed system for two weeks. For the ...

ARTBA: Senate climate bill ‘shorts’ transportation sector

May 13, 2010

A majority of the revenue generated from a new transportation user fee included in a climate bill proposed in the U.S. Senate would be diverted to non-transportation purposes —- a ...

Granite Construction joint venture team competing for projects in Guam

May 13, 2010

Granite Construction Incorporated announced today that the joint-venture team composed of Granite, Hensel Phelps and Traylor Brothers is among seven teams of contractors awarded a $4 billion multiple award construction ...
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