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Roadbuilding
Atlanta Mayor plans to create city department of transportation
During her annual State of the City speech, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that she plans to create a city Department of Transportation to help address potholes and traffic, AJC reports. Councilman Andre Dickens said he plans to introduce legislation creating the new department to the city council right away. Dickens came up with […]
March 21, 2019
Roadbuilding
Littleton receives Domino’s Paving for Pizza grant in Colo.
Littleton, Colo., was chosen as a recipient of Domino’s “Paving for Pizza” grant to fix potholes, according to a press release from the City of Littleton. “Cracks, bumps, and potholes can easily ruin a good carryout pizza, and nobody wants that,” said Mike Rea, who owns one of the Littleton Domino’s locations, in a city […]
March 19, 2019
Roadbuilding
Roadbotics’s windshield-mounted system speeds up road condition data collection
Learn more about how Roadbotics's new systems improve and speed up road condition data collection on Equipment World.
August 6, 2018
Roadbuilding
To pick your pothole patches, new “decision tree tool” comes with flash cards or flow chart
Minnesota Department of Transportation has developed an Asphalt Patching Methods Best Practices Guide for identifying and repairing potholes effectively.
June 11, 2018
Construction Equipment
Hoelscher Spike handles motor grader tasks twice as fast
Hoelscher’s new Spike road maintainer is true to its name – it has two rows of rigid spikes for rejuvenating roads. The attachment is made for tractors of 60 to 70 horsepower. The company says it is simple to operate and can be used at twice the speed of a motor grader, saving time and labor […]
December 26, 2017
Construction Equipment
SuperRoads sells Python pothole patcher product line to Korean firm
Smart Air Chamber, which makes crash cushion protection for roads, work zones and monitoring systems, has purchased SuperiorRoads Solutions’ pothole patcher product lines, the Python 5000 and SR 6000. The purchase also leads to the creation of a new company, which will keep the SuperiorRoads name and continue to be based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, […]
November 28, 2017
Roadbuilding
Historic Boston bridge closed temporarily due to large potholes
One of Boston’s historic bridges had to be closed due to large potholes damaging cars, according to WCBV. The closing of the North Washington Street Bridge, also known as the Charlestown Bridge, lasted about four hours October 24 and was reopened at 10 p.m. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation plans to begin work on replacing […]
October 25, 2017
Roadbuilding
Pothole Blitz: Reporting, tracking and repair of this ubiquitous problem are evolving
Potholes are the universal bane of motorists across the country. They’re also among the top complaints public works and transportation agencies receive from the public. Their presence is so ubiquitous that officials are using a variety of methods to manage pothole reporting and tracking. They’re also extending their repair efforts beyond the old “two guys […]
July 31, 2017
Roadbuilding
Hot weather causing Utah roads to buckle and crumble
Extremely hot weather is wreaking havoc on Utah roads, causing the roadways to buckle and crumble and keeping the state Department of Transportation (UDOT) busy making repairs, kutv.com reports. “Utah is the perfect place for these kind of buckling issues to happen, because we have the extreme temperatures,” UDOT’s John Gleason told the news agency. […]
July 5, 2017
Roadbuilding
Plug-in device can report location, severity of potholes using vehicle’s vibrations
A Texas group called Thing for Things is trying to fix the pothole problem in North Texas using technology, wfaa.com reports. The group came up with the idea of using a small plug-in device that can attach to almost any vehicle to collect road condition data as the vehicle travels the roads. The plug-in uses GPS […]
June 1, 2017
Roadbuilding
Former WV Transportation Sec. invents tire-based pothole repair method that “will last indefinitely”
Morgantown inventor and former West Virginia Secretary of Transportation Samuel G. Bonasso and his partner, Jim Matuga, have developed what they say is a long-term repair for potholes called the Pothole Terminator by Mechanical Concrete, and they hope the West Virginia Division of Highways will begin using it. “We’ve got a long-term, permanent solution that can actually reduce […]
March 29, 2017
Roadbuilding
California universities working to develop longer-lasting highways
The recent wet weather in the Bay Area has caused potholes and damage to many of California’s roads. The East Bay Times reports that, on March 1 emergency repairs were completed on a pothole that had developed in one of the northbound lanes of Interstate 680 in Fremont Feb. 28, noting that was just one of the […]
March 3, 2017
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