The wrath of Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy: Hitting close to home

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Oct 31, 2012

This is the collapsed home (in the photo's center) along the New Jersey shore of the mother of a Randall-Reilly Construction Media Division's friend. Better Roads is part of this division. Hurricane Sandy is estimated to have caused $20 billion ...

The feast and famine of road repairs

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 30, 2010

It’s either feast or famine. After several years of minimal maintenance and street resurfacing in the Chicago area because of state funding shortfalls, dozens of projects were carried out last year because of stimulus funding. And about 45 miles of road ...

How do you fill your potholes? Let us count the unconventional ways

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 30, 2010

It's pothole patching season. But some people in North America aren't waiting for the road crews to take care of these road cavities, as I like to refer to them, so they are being filled in unconventional ways. A March 29, ...

Kirk Landers: Dreams and delusions

Brooke Wisdom - Mar 01, 2009

Dreams and delusions By Kirk Landers In late January, the Chicago Tribune ran an editorial bewailing the epidemic of potholes in Chicago area streets. This is part of a familiar cycle in these parts. We have hot summers, cold winters, and ...