Lattatudes

Better Roads Staff - Apr 06, 2012

Reforming Reauthorization Much of the debate (if you can call it that) on a new highway bill has focused on the amount of funding that will be available for transportation infrastructure. Argument over the length of new legislation has also had ...

A bitter little House whine

John Latta - Mar 30, 2012

"I can't, it's too hard." There are a lot of ideographic catch phrases we associate with Americans. This isn't one of them. I don't believe George Washington or Admiral Farragut or John Paul Jones or Abraham Lincoln ever said it. For that ...

ASCE award Hoover Dam Bypass Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 27, 2012

The Hoover Dam Bypass/Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge project was awarded the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) award by the American Society of Civil Engineers on March 22 at its OPAL Gala in Washington, D.C. (To see a detailed feature ...

Applications and Innovations

Better Roads Staff - Feb 27, 2012

Avoid Common Cold Mix Patching Failures To do something the right way, it helps to know how to do it the wrong way. Pothole patching is not an exception to the rule. By Tina Grady Barbaccia Identifying the various types of distresses and ...

North Carolina meetings to discuss I-95 tolls

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Feb 08, 2012

The first of seven planned public hearings organized by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to receive comments on tolling I-95 in the state will be Feb. 7 in Lumberton. The meeting is planned for 4-7 p.m. in the ...

Mica’s Move is Made: Now let’s keep moving

John Latta - Feb 01, 2012

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and Members of the committee unveiled the American Energy an Infrastructure Jobs Act yesterday. I would like to think contractors, subs, agencies,equipment dealerships and OEMs are excited and getting ready to move quickly ...

Today?

John Latta - Jan 31, 2012

House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) and Committee Members will roll out a long-term reauthorization and reform of transportation programs at a press conference today. This cornerstone proposal of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act will ...

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

Better Roads Staff - Jan 12, 2012

More Top Rollouts Coming Up! New year = new equipment innovations to come. That’s an equation sure to add up to more productive jobsites for road construction agencies and contractors. With World of Concrete this month and World of Asphalt in ...

Highway Contractor

Better Roads Staff - Jan 12, 2012

Another Testing 12 Months The recovery continues. Slowly. Slowly. It’s frustrating (again) to have to say it, but it appears that this new year will offer us more of the same. Last year virtually repeating itself, as did the year before that and ...

I’d borrow for infrastructure says leading GOP candidate

John Latta - Dec 19, 2011

Guess who said this? "You have to prioritize those things which are most important to you and infrastructure and having good roads and bridges and rail lines and air traffic lines and so forth are essential for a strong ...

Transportation bipartisanship goes rank and file

John Latta - Dec 08, 2011

It might just stick. Bipartisanship in the quest for a new surface transportation bill arose from the depths of the summer of our discontent with SAFETEA-LU's sucessor; and it seems to be hanging on. When we get to January, probably February ...

Is this it? Or something like it?

John Latta - Dec 05, 2011

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has released the full text of its surface transportation reauthorization bill. It's called MAP-21 (SAFETEA-LU it isn't), and of course, it's an acronym (they have people for this) -- Moving Ahead for Progress ...

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