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With the summer construction season in full swing, you don’t have to go far to see work zone safety applications in action. To be sure, work zone safety is a much-discussed topic in the southeast. There's good reason for that too - effective work zone safety programs do save lives - and if your company, agency or group has been active in this area, here’s your chance to earn some public recognition for your efforts. The American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) is now accepting nominations for the 2008 “Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards,” and you’re invited to apply....Read More

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There are new names in the chairman and vice chairman spots on the Georgia State Transportation Board.

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Florida Governor Charlie Crist has put his signature on funding of $8.2 billion to continue what the Florida Department of Transportation calls “a high level of transportation improvements and services for Florida’s citizens, visitors, and businesses.”  In a recent release on the funding authorization, FDOT adds that the budget “helps maintain the gains that have been made in transportation, preserving vital programs and services, and contrib...Read More

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Pete Ruane, president and CEO of  the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), recently reminded the 1,500 folks at the 25^th Annual International Bridge Conference in Pittsburg, Pa., that the 2009 federal highway and transit authorization bill “provides the best opportunity in more than 50 years to chart a new course for America’s surface transportation programs and significantly boost the highway and bridge construction market for the future.”  But according to ARTBA “it will be a heavy political lift” to take advantage of the opportunity, and strong grassroots support from transporta...Read More

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Sometimes it's hard to separate short-term inconvenience from long-term gain, especially where road construction and the traffic that results are concerned.
     These days, for example, it’s hard to miss the highway work (and related traffic) in downtown Atlanta. First, there’s the Downtown Connector Resurfacing Project, which is resurfacing the northbound and southbound lanes of the I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector corridor between ...Read More

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The Florida Department of Transportation is moving toward a scenic byway corridor management plan for the River of Lakes highway corridor in Volusia County, Fla.   

The National Scenic Byways Program is a voluntary, community-based progr...Read More

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You may not know it, but you should: Here in Georgia we’re in the very midst of “Dig Safely” month, declared as such by no less than Governor Sonny Perdue himself.

According to the Georgia Utilities Protection Center, this latest action deomnstrates the good governor's "continued support for safe digging practices” – and if you’r...Read More

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Interesting times, these. Turn on the radio, and they’re talking about primary elections and gas tax holidays, about rising food prices and foreclosures, and about pilots who take little naps while they’re driving airplanes up there in the sky. It’s all enough to make a body worry.

Well, when the worries get to you, what better relief than to take ...Read More

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Being in the words business, I like uncommon words - words that get used just now and then – words like “conundrum.” It’s got several definitions, and most dictionaries list one of them as “anything that puzzles” or "something that is a dilemma.”

That’s what we’ve got with the gas tax holiday. Lots...Read More

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If you’ve ever worried about our industry’s future workforce, then you’ve never seen the excitement at the annual CareerExpo put on near Atlanta by the Construction Education Foundation of Georgia.

Want to check it out yourself? You’re getting your chance is this very week – April 24 and 25, Thursday and Friday – as the 2008 CareerExpo and the SkillsUSA Championships take place at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds.

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Mike Evans, chairman of Georgia’s State Transportation Board, created (how to put it) a bit of a stir yesterday when he announced that he is resigning from the board because of a personal relationship with GDOT Commissioner Gena Abraham.

At Thursday’s meeting of the State Transportation Board, Evans made the following statement:

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