Crossroads Engineering and Surveying provided highway design services for the one and a half mile reconstruction of South Shore Boulevard. This busy two-lane rural roadway was upgraded to a four-lane divided urban arterial highway. The drainage design required correction of flooding issues that resulted from the existing roadway being built...
Crossroads Engineering & Surveying designed a one-quarter mile section of Hagen Ranch Road, a two lane arterial highway connecting two developing residential areas. The new highway is expandable to a five-lane facility if future growth and development requires. The project traversed undeveloped farm lands, which required a small amount of...
This paper analyzes traffic data from 1996 and continuing through the first half of 2001, for roadways with low to very low traffic volumes in ten southwestern Minnesota counties resulting in information about the causes of crashes. Three sets of analysis are carried out on the database. First was a...
The paper reveals about the Timber Bridge. The bridge is on a forest roadway and has the bridge length of 55.0 m with two continuous spans and the total width of 12.3 m with a 7.0 m two lane roadway and a 2.0 m one-side footway. The orthotropic steel deck...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Marwit Capital Partners II, L.P. ("Marwit") announced today that it has recapitalized Western Emulsions, Inc. (the "Company") in partnership with CEO Bob Koleas. Based in Tucson, Arizona with additional operations in California, Nevada and New Mexico, Western Emulsions supplies asphalt emulsions and raw asphalt used for...
LED lamps will be evaluated for effectiveness and energy savings NEWARK, N.J., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Working with its municipal and county customers to explore energy efficiencies for New Jersey's cities, PSE&G has begun testing new technologies in street lighting. The company is partnering with New Jersey...
Alan Peterson cruises the roadways looking for distressed motorists. But this isn't the start to some slasher flick, it's his job. And more and more in recent months Peterson, Incident Management team leader for the Utah Department of Transportation, has been assisting drivers who have pushed their...
Murray, Smith & Associates Inc. has added principal engineers Kyle McTeague and David Stangel, and controller Celeste Alvarez to its board of directors. McTeague manages water, wastewater, storm water and roadway projects and leads MSA's city/district engineering group. He holds a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering...
Quality Enhancements to Benefit Customers at Yellow Transportation, Roadway and USF Holland OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YRC North American Transportation, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide , is significantly reducing transit times in more than 30,000 lanes. The faster, more reliable lanes are part of...
The Capital-Journal Heavy rains in Wabaunsee County closed a portion of K-99 highway for about two hours Tuesday as flood warnings were issued for Coffey, Shawnee and Wabaunsee counties. The Kansas Department of Transportation said K-99 was closed from mile marker 163 to 163.3...
The Capital-Journal Heavy rains in Wabaunsee County closed a portion of K-99 highway for about two hours Tuesday as flood warnings were issued for Coffey, Shawnee and Wabaunsee counties. The Kansas Department of Transportation said K-99 was closed from mile marker 163 to 163.3...
Four people died in traffic accidents on Utah roadways Saturday. A Tooele man was killed and his passenger injured the vehicle they were riding in flipped over an embankment in Tooele County and burst into flames. The accident happened where Drouvay road turns from...
During the slow crawl of a choked commute, drivers may want to use the time to consider why they're stuck in traffic. That could be the key to less congestion for everyone. Traffic congestion is stemming from a disconnect between the number of people...
MT. PLEASANT, Sanpete County -- A girl died in a weekend all- terrain vehicle accident when she and another girl rolled off a mountainside and into a fast-moving creek. The Sanpete County Sheriff's Office said two girls were riding an ATV in Pleasant Creek Canyon Saturday when...
An entrepreneur with dreams of putting the roller coasters back on track on at the Six Flags Amusement Park site in eastern New Orleans says he may have to build his own floodwall to do it. "The site is on the marsh," said Danny Rogers, CEO...
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- The National Safety Commission today saluted the Florida Highway Patrol for its renewed commitment to promoting awareness of Florida's Move Over Law. More than a year after the National Safety Commission, the National Sheriffs' Association, the National Association of Police Organizations and the...
Part of Construction Union's Effort to Redirect America's Resources to Basic Priorities that Working People Depend on Every Day To View the Ad, Go to www.LiunaBuildsAmerica.org/ads WASHINGTON -- LIUNA - the Laborers' International Union of North America - this week released a new television ad highlighting...
OREM -- Anyone who has driven along University Parkway in Provo and Orem during rush hour knows the cities are approaching a transportation meltdown. Recognizing that, the Mountainland Association of Governments, the Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Transit Authority have been evaluating additional travel options...
The Coast Guard has awarded a $21.5 million contract to build its Sector New Orleans facility. IKBI Incorp. of Choctaw, Miss., will oversee construction of the three-story, 46,000-square-foot building on a 7-acre site in the northwest corner of property adjacent to Naval Support Activity in Algiers. ...
ROOSEVELT -- A Roosevelt man died when his pickup truck veered off a state highway near here and rolled several times. Utah Highway Patrol trooper Todd Johnson identified the victim as Jason R. Pugh, of the Roosevelt area. Pugh's truck was on state Route...
