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Highway bill: So much, yet too little

The new highway bill did nothing to create stable user-based funding to make our infrastructure program self-sustaining.

December 18, 2015

The new highway bill does not address needed reform of the federal fuels tax, the major funding source for the Highway Trust Fund. The tax was last changed for gasoline and diesel in 1993.

Debris slide, conditions close I-90 EB at Snoqualmie Pass

WsDOT reported all lanes of EB I-90 had reopened as of mid-morning after closing in the Snoqualmie Pass area at MM 34 near North Bend, Wash., following heavy snow and a debris slide.

December 14, 2015

snoqualmiepass boulders

Overnight lane closures: Upcoming in Michigan and Virginia; Nashville I-40 shutdown repeat

I-64 affected in Virginia through next week in both directions (MM 250-255) overnight, likewise Monday in Michigan I-94 in Washtenaw County. Nashville downtown — I-40 closing again over the weekend.

September 18, 2015

highway construction work

Dear cities and states, ‘Finish the mess you’ve made’ already!

Navigating high construction season on the road: “After sustaining what I’m certain is irreversible kidney damage, a deviated septum, and three chipped teeth, I finally gave up on making across alive…”

September 18, 2015

Dear Louisville, In your furious drive to destroy every single roadway leading into and out of your city, I’m afraid you missed one. 7th Ave. is still intact. If you hurry, you can obliterate it before supper. Sincerely, Screw You

Quick work made of I-93 sinkhole; More alt. routes for I-65 NB in Indiana

Highway haps: While InDOT continues to divert NB I-65 traffic along the official detour, local media have specified a variety of potential alternates for points north of Lafayette.

August 20, 2015

Ohio ate our mailbox

“Apparently, the State of Ohio needs a minute with my dad and his whipping belt, because they really don’t seem to care that someone committed a federal offense by wiring my poor, unassuming mailbox to an orange barrel.”

March 26, 2015

Road near the parkers house edit

I-495 Christina River bridge reopens to traffic — partially

Video, pictures and more from the southbound span of the I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Delaware, which reopened to traffic on Thursday last week a month ahead of schedule. NB remains closed.

August 4, 2014

Catch multifaceted NBC Philadelphia coverage of the reopening via this link.

The Highway 69 blues

In Oklahoma, “enjoy the view, if you can concentrate after having your brain slammed around in your cranium.”

June 4, 2014

Lake Eufaula, Okla.

Potholes and Pennsylvania

Have you come across the well-known pothole on 81, near the Susquehanna, that will rip your front end off?

February 24, 2014

Dear American people: ‘You are about to be tracked 24/7’

Would you install an in-vehicle tracking device for an insurance discount? Most consumers wouldn’t, which makes all the talk of a vehicle-miles-traveled highway tax all the more mystifying.

March 9, 2013

Many owner-operators object to a vehicle-miles-traveled tax, for various reasons including privacy concerns.

Blacktops may get a new scent

In the near future, don’t distrust your senses if that beautiful smell of asphalt in the morning is redolent of, well, hog farm.

February 25, 2013

‘Where’s the love’ for truckers? Dr. Love has the answer

Or at least he knows where it’s not: I-55 South into Hammond, La., from the No. 46 milemarker about 15 miles to I-12 (much smoother). Dr. Love, or truck driver B.G. Love, takes online viewers on a tour down this road in a video posted in June to the blog for his “Lovology” project, a personal […]

September 12, 2011

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