Category: Transportation Engineering

Wauwatosa Goes Green on Bike-Friendly Street

What’s black and red and green all over on North Avenue in the Wisconsin city of Wauwatosa? That’s the newly reconstructed black asphalt roadway with its red-painted crosswalks and, most prominently, its bright green bike lanes and bike boxes along 16 city blocks. Wauwatosa leaders and others celebrated the City’s first bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly roadway… Read More »

The (Rustic) Road Less Traveled

There are many reasons to love the fall season, but the most visible one is the breathtaking fall colors. For these few weeks before winter settles in, the drive to your destination almost becomes a destination itself, thanks to the brilliant scarlet, gold, and purple splashed across the hillsides and canopying the roadways. New England… Read More »

Night Construction: The Pros and Cons

It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your road construction crew is? These days they could be out on the job site, toiling under the glare of floodlights. Largely for the convenience of motorists, many highway projects are now completed while most of the population is sleeping so more lanes can be kept open during… Read More »