Report: Highway conditions improve

State highway conditions are the best they’ve been in 19 years, according to Reason Foundation.

09.09.10

| 2009 highway accident involved a tractor-trailer that plowed into stopped traffic on I-44, killing 10 people.

09.09.10

| Show floor exhibitor space was up nearly 20 percent over 2009 with almost 450 companies in attendance.

09.09.10

| Fatalities of large truck occupants dropped from 682 in 2008 to 503 in 2009, a 26 percent decline.

09.08.10

| Over the next six years, the plan would include rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads and constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of rail. ...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

This weekend, crews will close lanes on I-40 in both directions.

When completed in 2013, the project will replace the 73-year-old Doyle Drive southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge.

State Road 9B project has been stalled since the mid-1970s.

Recovery Act funds will go toward the total replacement cost of $129.5 million the Milton-Madison Bridge.

Familiar freeways top the rankings of best, worst and most improved roads in Overdrive survey