More stories about Roadways

  • Forecast: winter warming trend

    Asphalt's always ready for repairs with a generator-powered heating system.

  • Voter-supported growth

    Pay-to-play tax plan finances five years of road improvements.

  • New programs offered at World of Asphalt

    Conferences & meetings

  • Equine disequilibrium

    Road managers in Amish country battle wear and tear made by a much older generation of four-wheeled vehicles.

  • The Price is Right

    One Ohio city joins the green movement by recycling its asphalt streets in-house.

  • Influential Intermediaries

    How bringing in funding-program specialists helped New Orleans afford to rebuild.

  • APWA 2009

    Products from the APWA Show

  • CPR saves freeway

    A 2003 physical survey of the Oklahoma City section of Interstate 44 proved to the Oklahoma DOT (ODOT) that the road was in desperate need of repair.

  • The greenest street in Chicago

    Each spring, large quantities of dissolved nutrients (such as nitrogen and phosphorous) are transported from the upper Midwest into what is called the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone — an oxygen-deficient area that grows to approximately 8,000 square miles each year and cannot support marine life.

  • 20+ agencies honored for pavement projects

    The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA), Skokie, Ill., announced the winners of its 20th Annual Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards — recognizing the engineers, contractors, and project owners whose expertise have produced high-quality pavement for streets, roads, highways, and...