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Georgia DOT workers ask drivers to slow down in work zones

In a recent report from WJBF TV, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) workers asked drivers around the state to consider the high risk they put road workers in when they drive fast through work zones. The message comes after several deadly accidents occurred in work zones in the Central Savannah River Area, the station reports. DOT […]

March 20, 2017

Roadbuilding

West Virginia DOH seeks public assistance to establish fallen worker memorial

The West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) is asking for the public’s help in establishing a statewide fallen worker memorial for highway safety to honor employees who have been killed on the job. The first step of this project, the agency says, is collecting the names of those killed on the job. WVDOH has collected […]

November 22, 2016

Roadbuilding

Indiana DOT builds temporary bridges during I-69 bridge replacement project

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is warning drivers to expect lane shifts on Interstate 69 as it proceeds with a bridge replacement project. ABC 21 reports that contractors plan to install two temporary bridges ahead of the bridge replacement—one at Flat Creek and the other at Eight Mile Creek. The interstate will have lane restrictions in both directions between lane […]

August 30, 2016

Roadbuilding

The future of work zone safety: Intelligent transportation systems and smarter project coordination

Construction work zones are some of the most brightly designated areas along roads and highways, even rivaling the ubiquitous billboard. Unfortunately, that visibility hasn’t stopped accidents in what the public assumes is a cordoned-off haven. In 2014, 116 workers deaths occurred in road construction sites, according to the latest figures available from the U.S. Bureau […]

August 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Two construction workers hit by car near Westinghouse Bridge in Pittsburgh

Two construction workers were hit by a vehicle near the Westinghouse Bridge in Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning. CBS Pittsburgh reports that the accident happened on the Route 30 bridge just before 10 a.m. The construction workers were reviewing the area for a bridge replacement that is due to get underway next weekend, according to the Pennsylvania Department of […]

May 13, 2016

Roadbuilding

One Ala. DOT worker killed, one injured in I-65 wreck

One Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) employee was killed and another injured in a wreck on Interstate 65 near the Tennessee River Bridge in northern Alabama, according to a report by WHNT. ALDOT says the deceased employee is 35-year-old Jacob Smith, and the injured employee is 63-year-old Kenneth Hooper. Both were removing barrels used in […]

April 15, 2016

Roadbuilding

Thirty-year Missouri DOT worker killed during bridge maintenance work

Missouri Department of Transportation employee Lyndon D. Ebker, 55, was struck and killed by a vehicle Thursday while flushing bridges on eastbound Route 100 near Buchheit Road on the outskirts of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ebker’s crew posted signage identifying the work and parked a dump truck fitted with an attenuator […]

April 7, 2016

Roadbuilding

Traffic flagger killed after being struck by utility truck

A traffic flagger in Vermont died recently after he was struck by a utility truck while working in Middlebury. According to Vermont Public Radio, 75-year-old Lawrence Kaminski was working for Green Mountain Flagging on Route 7 when he walked behind the truck. The Eustis Cable Enterprises truck began to back up and struck Kaminski. The […]

March 21, 2016

Roadbuilding

Highways 2.0: Transportation’s future holds drastic changes for road builders

The Eisenhower Interstate System was a bold plan. It supercharged our economy and provided good, middle class jobs to millions of Americans for more than 40 years. It changed the face and character of America. That’s what we’re calling Highways 1.0. What followed in the footsteps of these big thinkers and world-class builders? Stasis, neglect and […]

March 11, 2016

Roadbuilding

Cop working construction zone dragged by vehicle

A police officer working in a construction zone in Wayland, Massachusetts was injured recently after being dragged by a vehicle for several feet. According to the Boston Globe, Sgt. Jennifer Ordway was out of her vehicle in the construction zone on Route 30 when she started talking to the driver of a vehicle through the passenger window. The driver of […]

February 29, 2016

Roadbuilding

One worker dead, another seriously injured after drunk driver crashes into work zone

A 21-year-old road worker was killed earlier this month and his coworker was seriously injured after an alleged drunk driver crashed into a Texas construction zone. Christian Castro was at work in the construction zone on Bonham Street in Paris, Texas, with his coworker when 26-year-old Geno Allen veered off the side of the road and struck the […]

February 26, 2016

Roadbuilding

Georgia DOT worker, deputy narrowly escape getting hit by a semi

A dashboard camera video from a Georgia sheriff’s deputy’s vehicle highlights how dangerous road work can really. In the video, a Georgia Department of Transportation worker can be seen running past a parked van on Interstate 75. Just as GDOT worker Roger Minshew turns past the van, a semi-truck barrels onto the screen and hits the […]

February 24, 2016