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Roadbuilding

Columbus on tap for Ohio’s first SmartLane

Interstate 670 in Columbus, Ohio, is slated to get a new SmartLane, with work beginning this summer, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. The ODOT says the additional lane, the result of rebuilding the left shoulder of the freeway, will relieve congestion between Fourth Street and Interstate 270. Scheduled to be completed in Fall […]

December 7, 2017

Roadbuilding

Signage continues thermal wrong-way detection installation in Ariz.

Signs are going up on Interstate 17 in Phoenix to alert drivers to the proper direction to drive. The overhead “Wrong Way” signs are part of a new system that would be the first in the nation to use thermal cameras to detect and warn wrong-way drivers.   Installation of the system began earlier this […]

November 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Music to your gears: Artist uses New York traffic to create musical notes

An artist from Brazil has turned cars driving down a New York highway into a musical notes to compose a song that follows the flow of traffic. For his latest musical arrangement, titled “Cars on the Lanes,” Jarbas Agnelli used a video of one section of a New York City freeway, and assigned musical notes to cars […]

September 29, 2015

Roadbuilding

Arizona DOT begins testing wrong-way detection devices in hopes of curbing freeway crashes

Following several crashes in following wrong-way drivers, Arizona is looking to crack down on the situation by installing new detection devices along highways. The Arizona Department of Transportation began testing the system at three locations on freeways around the Phoenix area, according to the Casa Grande Dispatch. It works with a series of radar and camera sensors […]

August 17, 2015

Roadbuilding

NOLA and the reimagining of I-10

It would seem to be a given that Americans reinvent themselves and their surroundings faster than anybody else. Many roads that helped build and make cities, sit today amid changed and changing landscapes. And that offers a chance to find a new way to look at the relationship between the road and the people who […]

April 4, 2013

Roadbuilding

“Congestion pricing” now at work on L.A. jamways

If they can make it here they’ll make it anywhere, its up to you L.A. L.A. Los Angeles County’s has opened 14 miles of express lanes on the San Bernardino Freeway. Back in November it was the city’s Harbor Freeway that was set up with this system. The idea of course is to ease congestion. […]

February 25, 2013