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Are you ready to rumble — drive with rumble strips that is?

The state of Washington sure is! According to a report in the Seattle Times, an analysis of state highways found that centerline rumble strips — the grooves cut into pavement on 2,000 miles of the state’s two-lane highways — has reduced serious injury and fatal crossover collisions by 57 percent. The reported is included in […]

January 12, 2010

Illinois cuts workzone fatalities 30 percent

IDOT’s secret? Load up a van with cameras and radar, run them at random times through workzones and photograph the drivers and their license plates. The tickets arrive by certified mail. Since the program’s inception in 2006 more than 7,200 citations have been issued. What a great idea. Here’s hoping more states will follow IDOT’s […]

January 6, 2010

American Society of Highway Engineers joins Roadway Infrastructure Safety Coalition

The American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) has joined The Roadway Infrastructure Safety Coalition (RISC). RISC was created to work to reduce deaths on America’s roadways by improving roadway safety infrastructure through the federal legislative, regulatory and budgetary process. Evidence suggests that roadway infrastructure plays a significant role in as much as one third […]

January 6, 2010

Construction safety training now mandatory in Nevada

A new law requires 10 hours of mandatory training for laborers, 30 hours for supervisors.

January 6, 2010

OSHA targets Texas

Saying Texas has more construction related deaths than any other state, the Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says OSHA plans a “constructive safety initiative,” in the Lone Star State. The initiative begins in July and OSHA’s ramp up will include hiring 130 more inspectors and 25 more “discrimination” inspectors. Speaking at the annual meeting of the […]

January 6, 2010

Construction Equipment

811 “Call before you dig” helping reduce accidents

A report out today from the Common Ground Alliance shows that the number of underground utility damages caused by construction and excavation in 2008 have shrunk by more than half. According to the CGA: “The estimated total number of underground utility damages occurring in the U.S. in 2008 has decreased to 200,000 from the 2004 […]

January 6, 2010

And the bridges continue to crumble: Now Tennessee must perform emergency bridge repairs

And the crumbling bridges continue. I thought we finally learned something from the Minnesota I-35W bridge collapse two years ago. But since then, we’ve had the much-publicized closure of the Oakland Bridge and most recently the Bay Bridge. That’s two in California in less than a year. Now, the Tennessee Department of Transportation just announced […]

November 10, 2009

Bid List

Roadway safety has become more important than ever “Roadway condition is a contributing factor in more than half of the deaths resulting from motor vehicle crashes each year, so it makes good sense to improve the safety of our roadways with brighter signs, stripes, guardrails, rumble strips and other roadway safety devices and features, many […]

November 1, 2009

Financial District: TRB Watch

Procedures Guide for Right-of-Way Cost Estimation and Cost Management www.trb.org/Construction/Public/Blurbs/162271.aspx Construction project cost escalation, from planning through construction, is a fundamental problem facing state highway agencies. As projects progress through the planning, programming, and design stages of development, the accuracy and precision of project cost estimates vary widely, for various reasons. In response, TRB’s National […]

November 1, 2009

Quixote Corporation Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation as the Worldwide Leader of Transportation Safety

CHICAGO–Quixote Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of transportation safety products and advanced technologies, celebrated its 40 year anniversary in July 2009. The company looks back on four decades of saving lives and leading the advance of transportation safety through research and innovation – and sees an even brighter future of safe, efficient transportation around the […]

August 31, 2009

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