With states, counties and cities combining to let hundreds of highway, road and street contracts every year-and with the Midwest climate essentially forcing most of this work to occur during the summer months-motorists are bound to feel the slowing effects of construction on various roadways multiple times daily. The challenge for contractors bidding these jobs then becomes not only finding a way to complete work quickly, but also to do it in a way that somehow minimizes the disruption to traffic flow. The city of Evansville, Ind., is one such metro area feeling the pinch…

Read the article from the December 08 issue of Roads & Bridges magazine.