A Moment in Time: Safe Driving Day 1954-1955
Public Challenged to go One Full Day without "Accidents"
By Richard Weingroff
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General
Legacy ID
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A Moment in Time: Highway Safety Breakthrough
Richard Weingroff / FHWA News 2021
A Moment in Time: To Create a Partnership
Richard Weingroff / FHWA News 2022
Happy 50th Anniversary: National Bridge Inspection Standards
By Joey Hartmann and Richard Weingroff
Betty, Girl Engineer
A Look Back as FHWA Celebrates National Women's Month
by Richard Weingroff
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In Memory of President George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) The Man Who Brought About the Post-Interstate Era
By Richard F. Weingroff
Landscape Design and Its Relation to the Modern Highway
By
Wilbur H. Simonson
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
U. S. Department of Commerce
Washington, D.C.
First Lecture at Rutgers University, College of Engineering
Spencer Miller, Jr., Lecture Series, February - April, 1952
Wilbur H. Simonson was Chief of the...
Dogwood Planted Along Roadsides
An article in the September 1946 issue of Contractors and Engineers Monthly described the original Blue Star planting project in New Jersey:
Blue Star Drive Planned as Memorial for Service People; Slopes Flattened or Stabilized With Trees...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Excess Condemnation
By Richard F. Weingroff
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a big supporter of toll superhighways, which he saw as a way to create jobs for the unemployed during the Depression. During World War II, he saw the concept as vital to having projects on the shelf ready...