Tag: road construction: Page 51

Business

Resason Foundation proposes per-mile tolling of U.S. Interstate system as a “fair” source of infrastructure funding

According to a report from our sister site Better Roads, the Reason Foundation, citing of the Internet Highway System, has proposed tolling interstates and charging 3.5 cents per mile for cars and 14 cents per mile for trucks. The Interstate system makes up only 2.5 percent of all miles of highway in the U.S., but carries […]

September 18, 2013

Roadbuilding

‘Home of the Detour’

We are inching closer to the weekend, so here’s some road construction humor. As I traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, last week to meet with some manufacturers, one thing was clear: Road-construction season was in full gear. From widening roads to repairing older ones, I saw crews staying busy throughout the city – which spends $30 […]

August 14, 2013

Business

Surveys find Americans willing to support 10-cent fuel tax increase to maintain roads

Ever wonder why some research studies show substantial public support for increased fuel taxes and other studies show the opposite? It turns out, it’s all in how you ask the question. Exhaustive proof of that is provided in the Mineta Transportation Institute’s fourth annual survey of public opinion about paying additional taxes to support transportation […]

August 1, 2013

Business

Texas contractor to pay for repairs resulting from tar covered tires from recently paved road

It always feels nice to drive on newly-paved roads. Typically, that doesn’t include taking the road with you. Victoria, Texas contractor Brannan Paving has agreed to pay for all the repairs resulting from a botched paving job that for several days closed down a 2.5-mile stretch of road near Corpus Christi, according to KRISTV.com. Officials […]

July 24, 2013

Business

Alabama Rep. Bachus introduces bill to expedite approval of large construction projects

Citing “protracted” construction permitting procedures in need of streamlining, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., recently detailed the Responsibly and Professionally Invigorating Development (RAPID) Act, which he co-sponsors. The bill would seek to eliminate duplicate state and federal reviews on construction projects along with establishing deadlines and a statute of limitations for environmental impact studies. The […]

July 15, 2013

Home

Japan’s cartoon animal road construction signs are weird and cute (PHOTOS)

Oh, Japan. Just when we think your delightful culture can’t seem any more foreign to us, you go and do something like turning your road construction signs into adorable cartoon animals. According to our sister site Better Roads, the signs have become popular across Japan since 2006 and were implemented as a creative way to […]

July 12, 2013

Roadbuilding

PHOTOS: Japan’s road construction signs are cute cartoon animals

Here in the U.S., we’ve been seeing innovations that save time and money, increase driver safety, raise awareness about construction crews and make other improvements to highway construction. But in Japan, a different and adorable kind of innovation is showing up at highway construction sites. Road construction crews in Japan have begun using animal-shaped barricades […]

July 11, 2013

Business

Newly-appointed DOT chief Foxx outlines goals in blog post

The newest member of the Cabinet and the 17th person to take on the duties of leading the U.S. Department of Transportation took to the DOT’s Fast Lane blog to outline his three main goals for the department. Newly-appointed Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said in his first DOT blog post that he believes the […]

July 5, 2013

Safety

Texas DOT launches new tools for warning drivers about road construction zones

The Texas Department of Transportation has launched two new tools to warn drivers approaching road construction zones to slow down along with a new traffic signal to improve safety during left turns, according to a report from our sister site Better Roads. Being the guy holding the flags or signs to direct traffic on a […]

June 18, 2013

Safety

Colorado DOT ads depict construction workers as kids, urging drivers to “Slow for the Cone Zone”

As our sister site Better Roads reports, road construction season is in full swing. Which means that state departments of transportation are all looking for creative ways to grab the attention of drivers in order to make sure they are aware of all road construction zones and slow down as they enter them. The Colorado […]

June 13, 2013

Business

Senate Committee approves nomination of Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation

As expected, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx’s confirmation as the next U.S. Secretary of Transportation is going smoothly. On Monday, the Senate Committee for Commerce Science and Transportation approved his nomination, according to our sister site Better Roads. Foxx’s nomination will now go before the full Senate. The Senate committee’s chairman, Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, urged committee […]

June 12, 2013

Business

Recent talks suggest Congress has put transportation funding on the back burner

After attending last week’s Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) fly-in visit with Congress, John Latta, the editor of our sister site Better Roads, writes that the overall feeling among the contractors and agency officials that were there is that lawmakers do not share their sense of urgency about securing funding for transportation infrastructure. “A common theme they heard […]

June 11, 2013