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'Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department'

30 Crossing: There's a better way than widening the downtown freeway

With a public hearing coming on the Highway Department's plan to widen Interstate 30 through the heart of Little Rock, other voices say it would be a big mistake.
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U.S. PIRG: 30 Crossing one of nine worst highway boondoggles

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department's plan to widen Interstate 30 is a waste of $632 million in taxpayer dollars, an analysis by public policy and consumer groups says.
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The wonderful world of transportation, Dutch-style

There are places in the world where the controlling transportation concern is not giving priority to automobiles for maximum speed through urban areas.

The freeway department talks fairness. No, not about making truckers pay fair share

Noel Oman of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported on plans underway at the Arkansas freeway department to raise the license fee for electric cars to what a gas-powered car pays in fuel taxes, maybe $180 a year. Fair? They say yes; I'm not so sure.
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Arkansas highway agency wants name to be even less accurate

A reader is disappointed I didn't take note of the article by Noel Oman in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this morning about the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department's plan to rechristen itself the Arkansas Department of Transportation. Omission corrected

Broadway Bridge contractor got a two-day headstart on six-month project

A reader posed a question about the Broadway Bridge project and the Times has an answer:
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Broadway Bridge again resists demolition

Another demolition and another less-than-perfect outcome for the Broadway Bridge, being removed to make way for a new, structurally improved span.

Work proceeds on clearing bridge debris from Arkansas River

Will the contractors for the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department meet a 24-hour deadline from the implosion of the Broadway Bridge yesterday afternnon to clear the Arkansas River navigation channel? And what if they don't?
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Broadway Bridgeageddon set for Wednesday morning

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department has scheduled a "closing ceremony" for the Broadway Bridge at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, 45 minutes after the bridge is closed for six months or so of work to tear down the old structure and replace it.

Broadway Bridge closing set for Sept. 28

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department said today it expects the Broadway Bridge will close the morning of Sept. 28 for a replacement project expected to take about six months.
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Alarm sounded on Highway Commission attendance at Metroplan meeting on wider freeways

Members of the Highway Commission will be on hand at a Metroplan meeting where discussion is to begin on the state highway department's desire to lift the cap on freeway width in Central Arkansas. Will they be pushing for a hurryup rule change? A spokesman says no. A critic says you can't be too careful.

City to AHTD: Consider downtown. Otherwise, go ahead.

On this final day of public comment on the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department's plan to widen Interstate 30, Mayor Mark Stodola and City Manager Bruce Moore have provided the AHTD with recommendations based on an assumption the proposed alternatives — 8 lanes or 10 — will be acceptable to the city.
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