Recently I came across an article that commented on the fact that many state highway departments are still promoting increased road construction. Their motivation is reduced congestion and reduced CO2 ...

SINCE the advent of the motor-car the use of bituminous materials in road-making has become more and more widespread, and a definite knowledge of the chemical and physical characters of these ...

Hugh G. Downs Jr., retired chief engineer with the State Highway Administration, died Friday of complications from an aneurysm at Washington County Hospital. The Hagerstown resident was 82. In his ...

Another one for all you Cities Skylines players! From a highway engineering perspective, siting freeways along waterfronts ...

WALKER — The cost of paving a road may be more financially advantageous than maintaining a gravel road, according to Cass County Highway Engineer Darrick Anderson. Anderson presented the 2024 annual ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to consider a case out of rural Minnesota that has the potential to shield all government officials — not just police — from being sued for acts such as detaining ...

In August of 1910, Charles Davis Vail became a patient at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, the result of a beating he received in Marble. Vail later became famous as the chief engineer for the ...

East Feliciana Parish Police Jury President Louis Kent announced Aug. 18 that he had appointed a retired state highway engineer to serve as his representative on the state panel trying to mitigate ...

SHELBYVILLE, Ill. (WAND) – The embattled county highway engineer in Shelby County, Alan Spesard, has submitted an apparent resignation letter saying he intends to retire no later than Oct. 31, 2021.