More Articles for National Highway System
Better Bridges 2012 Bridge Inventory
Getting Better all the Time
America’s structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridge count slowly, steadily falling
By Tina Grady Barbaccia
They aren’t numbers to throw a party for yet, but once again, the number of structurally deficient (SD) or functionally obsolete (FO) bridges ... Read More...
RoadWorks
Inside the highway and bridge industries
WISH LISTS
What our governors and others want in a reauthorization bill
Any surface transportation reauthorization bill will give state, regional and local agencies a bigger say — to what degree and with what caveats/catches is still ... Read More...
Product Spotlight
Safety
QuadGuard M10 crash cushion is MASH compliant
Trinity Highway Products/Energy Absorption Systems of Dallas has introduced the QuadGuard M10, calling it the industry’s first crash cushion accepted for use on the National Highway System under the provisions of the Manual for ... Read More...
Mike Anderson’s American Iron
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 ... Read More...
Applications and Innovations
DIY (Do It Yourself) Barricade
Mobile Barrier Trailer helps keep workers safe and traffic flowing
By Tina Grady Barbaccia
The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) has found a way of minimizing traffic disruption and maximizing worker safety in short-duration, rapid-work zones, says J.C. ... Read More...
RoadWorks
Rural America’s Vital Road Needs “Overlooked”
By John Latta, Tina Grady Barbaccia and Mike Anderson
Politicians and planners involved in “policy discussions” about future transportation funding and development are overlooking the people of rural America. So says John Horsley, executive director of ... Read More...
RoadScience
At a crossroads
The fate of our secondary roads may be in the balance.
By Tom Kuennen, Contributing Editor
Against the backdrop of stalled federal surface transportation reauthorization and threats from reduced state and local funding, secondary roads are at an intersection.
Secondary roads ... Read More...
