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Highway Superintendent Jason Sartori and the Town of Dover

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Mary Yamin-Garone - PROFILE CORRESPONDENT - For Jason Sartori it doesn't get any better than this. He loves his family. He loves the town where he has spent most of his life. He loves getting up every morning and doing his job as the highway superintendent of the town of Dover and he loves his parakeet, Peek. Born and bred in D...

Major Highway Project in North Smithfield, R.I., Progressing On Time, On Budget

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Valley Breeze & RIDOT - The critical Rhode Island Highway 146 renovation project that originally began in 2022 is progressing nicely, state officials have reported, with recently installed center posts and beams now clearly revealing how far the roadway will be raised to allow Sayles Hill Road to pass underneath. ...

Shilling Brings Safety to Rural Kansas Highway

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Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - For more than a decade, motorists in Kansas drove K-177 like a star running back on their beloved Kansas State Wildcats, weaving around obstacles to record a touchdown. The northern section of this 100-mi.-long state road leading into Manhattan, home to Kansas State University, had no sho...

Several Highway Construction Projects Are Making Headway in Southern Mississippi

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Mississippi Department of Transportation - On his final day at the helm of the Mississippi Department of Transportation's Southern District, Commissioner Tom King announced the status of several ongoing MDOT construction projects in his part of the state. "As I reach the end of my final term, I'm pleased to see many projec...

Infrastructure Upgrades On Highways Save Texans $3B

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TxDOT - Commuters across Texas reaped time and cost savings valued at more than $3 billion, thanks to transportation improvements and pandemic-related trends that made their drives quicker than just a few years ago, according to a new report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). ...

Peterson-Chase Provides New Surface On LA Highway

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Peterson-Chase General Engineering Construction Inc. crews started work on the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) $33 million Interstate 5 Pavement Preservation Project in Los Angeles County on Nov. 1, an initiative to improve the roadway on Interstate 5 (I-5) in the cities ...

TDOT Makes Improvements to Clarksville Highway

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Although the timeline has changed, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) continues monitoring long-awaited improvements for State Route 112 (Clarksville Highway). Construction on the $34.4 million project includes widening the route from two lanes to four lanes, with a continuous left...

Iowa DOT Testing 'Whip Lights' for Highway Snowplows

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AASHTO - This winter, the Iowa Department of Transportation will be testing new "whip lights" on several of its snowplows — lights attached to the edge of the plow to not only better highlight the vehicle's position to oncoming traffic, but also provide a "visual cue" to the plow op...

Highway Superintendent Joe Wasilewski and the Town of Lorraine

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Lori Lovely – PROFILE CORRESPONDENT - Although he came from the private sector, where he owned a residential construction business, Joe Wasilewski, highway superintendent of the town of Lorraine since 2018, understands that elected officials in the public sector work for the taxpayers. "When you lose sight that you're a s...

Idaho Transportation Department Reevaluating State Highway 16 to Address Its Needs

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Idaho Transportation Department - The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has started the process of reevaluating an environmental assessment of State Highway 16 (SH-16) first completed in 2005. While holding to an approved highway alignment from the 2005 study, other features such as roadway connections and highway capacity wi...