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Roadbuilding

INFOGRAPHICS: TRIP report reveals America’s rural roads need improvements

America’s rural transportation system is in need of repairs and modernization to lower the number of deficient roads and bridges and crash rates and to improve connectivity and capacity, according to a report released today by transportation research group TRIP. The reports, “Rural Connections: Challenges and Opportunities in America’s Heartland,” looks at the percentages of […]

July 10, 2014

Roadbuilding

TRIP report finds Montana’s highways, bridges ‘increasingly deteriorated and crowded’

A new report finds that Montana’s highways and bridges are in poor and mediocre condition, with the state’s traffic fatality rate among the worst in the nation. Transportation research group TRIP on Wednesday released a report on Montana’s highway infrastructure, noting that the state’s roads and bridges have “increasingly deteriorated and crowded” and that the […]

February 19, 2014

Roadbuilding

TRIP: Rural roads can’t support economic growth, fatalities triple from other roads

America’s rural heartland is home to nearly 50 million people and its natural resources provide the primary source of the energy, food and fiber that supports the nation’s economy and way of life. But, according to a new report from TRIP, the roads and bridges that serve and connect the nation’s rural areas face a […]

September 1, 2011

Safety

TRIP: Rural roads can’t support economic growth, fatalities triple from other roads

But, according to a new report from TRIP, the roads and bridges that serve and connect the nation’s rural areas face a number of significant challenges, including inadequate capacity to handle the growing levels of traffic and commerce, limited connectivity, the inability to accommodate growing freight travel, deteriorated road and bridge conditions, a lack of desirable safety features, and a traffic fatality rate far higher than all other roads and highways.

August 31, 2011