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Truckers: Thanks, Arkansas taxpayers, for rebuilding interstates

Noel Oman reported in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this morning on opening of bids on state highway construction projects, particularly a project to rebuild — again — a stretch of interstate near West Memphis that is regularly pounded to rubble by interstate truck traffic. If only the truckers were paying for the damage they cause
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Highway engineer takes questions on I-30

The lead engineer on the state's freeway building program sees the widening of Interstate 30 in downtown Little Rock as an economic development tool. We think that's debatable.
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Thanksgiving week brings more Broadway Bridge developments

More being developments are planned Thanksgiving week in the project to replace the Broadway Bridge over the Arkansas River in downtown Little Rock.

Another city rejects a concrete ditch

While Little Rock city fathers are intent on widening the Interstate 30 concrete ditch that slices through the heart of town, dividing and blighting neighborhoods, other cities are going in a different direction.
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Highway Department postpones Broadway Bridge demolition

The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department has announced postponement of the scheduled demolition today of the concrete arches on the old Broadway Bridge, which is being replaced by a new span over the Arkansas River in downtown Little Rock.

Protests rise to highway department's I-30 plan; there are other ways: Update

Testimony piles up about flaws in the Highway Department plan to widen the freeway through Little Rock and other cities show the way to do things differently. Alas, thinking outside the box is not the establishmentarian way in Little Rock.
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Highway Department says thanks for highway money, for now

The Arkansas Highway Department issued a statement today thanking the legislature and governor for providing money to qualify for federal matching in the next year, but the statement suggests some long-term money fixes are still in order.

'Fundamental rule': Widening a freeway does not reduce congestion

Still more expert testimony that widening freeways doesn't reduce traffic congestion. But Arkansas highway builders are intent on spending at least $700 million to demonstrate the truism yet again with the 30 Crossing project in Little Rock.
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Directors shrug off Marshall alternatives to 12-lane I-30

As expected, city Directors Lance Hines, Dean Kumpuris and Gene Fortson treated consultant Norm Marshall's report tonight on the 30 Crossing plan to widen I-30 with mostly polite disbelief and occasional scorn. The board then voted to defer, for the fifth time, a resolution by Directors Kathy Webb and Ken Richardson that would call on the Highway Department to consider alternatives to doubling the size of I-30 through downtown Little Rock.

Meeting tonight on impact of 10-lane Interstate 30 widening project

City Director Kathy Webb reminds by Twitter that Norm Marshall, a transportation planner, will provide a second installment of his look at the proposed widening of Interstate 30 downtown to 10 lanes (12 lanes at one point) at 7 p.m. tonight at First United Methodist Church.
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Critic asks Highway Department to tell truth: No park in 10-lane freeway plan

A Little Rock developer and critic of the 10-lane freeway expansion for Interstate 30 says the HIghway Departemnt should make clear a park proposal it featured at a public hearing Tuesday night is only a pipe dream. It won't be part of their project.

Another yes for the Wide Misery. UPDATE: Make that two ayes

The Little Rock Technology Park board today endorsed the Arkansas Highway Department's split-diamond C/D design for Interstate 30 contingent on a change in the design of Capitol.
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