Category: Transportation Engineering

Entering a Roundabout and See Flashing Lights Behind You? Keep Calm, and Carry On

It’s 5:30 p.m., and you’re just hitting the road for your commute home. With kids buckled in the back seat and the bag of groceries you just picked up tucked away in the trunk, you’re homeward-bound – and then you see flashing emergency lights in your rearview mirror. And to complicate matters, you’ve just entered… Read More »

If You Build a 240,000-Square-Foot Grocery, They Will Come (But Put Up Traffic Signals First!)

A large retailer is coming to town, building on a highly visible plot of vacant land. What do you do to get the customers there? That’s the question officials in the City of Altoona, Wisconsin, needed to answer this summer. The new retailer is Woodman’s Market, a grocery superstore of 240,000 square feet – more… Read More »

Road to PGA Championship Venue is No Longer at Risk of Falling into Lake Michigan

Drivers (and putters) heading to this week’s PGA Championship golf tournament will have the opportunity to take a new road that – to their benefit – is no longer falling into Lake Michigan. Earlier this year, crews from the Sheboygan County Transportation Department completed work on County Highway LS (Lakeshore Road), which runs along Whistling… Read More »