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Technology Revolutionizes Road Construction
New technology is taking cost, time and uncertainty out of highway design. For Virginians, this quiet revolution means less traffic disruption, lower costs and faster turn-around times on big projects. Last fall Fluor Transurban was negotiating a contract with the … Continue reading
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Urban Highway Tunnels Coming of Age
(This article is reprinted from Surface Transportation Innovations, a publication by the Reason Foundation that Bob Poole authors each month.) For the past two decades, the United States has missed out on one of the most significant advances in urban … Continue reading
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Midtown Tunnel Likely Dies without Tolls
By Leonard Gilroy and Baruch Feigenbaum Hampton Roads area officials seem bent on delaying or cancelling the proposed public-private partnership (PPP) for the $2.1 billion Midtown Tunnel expansion over concerns about new tolls, preferring instead to ask state and regional … Continue reading
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Virginia's Next Economic Boom?
Virginia’s economic developers expect a wave of manufacturing and logistical investment when the Panama Canal expansion is complete. Opportunities this big, they say, come along only once in a generation New mega-industrial parks and a proposed $1.8 billion highway could … Continue reading
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Transit Advocates Shoot Themselves in the Foot
(Federally proposed regulations could well undermine the rationale behind funding of what the taxpayers understand is transit. Since many in Virginia are committed to transit, this article is important to our future transportation needs. Bob Poole’s Surface Transportation Innovations is … Continue reading
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