The Bridge Newsletter


Safety, Asset Management

The Bridge - 31.1

Articles in this Issue: 
  • One Way To Muzzle a Citation: How the Appropriate Training Keeps You Safe at a Mine Site
  • How to Reach Seniors with Your Agency's Communications
  • Keeping Your Cool When Things Heat Up
  • Did You Know? IBR System™
  • What Makes the IBR System™ Unique?
  • Mechanisms for Change: Using the Michigan's Roads & Bridges Annual Report as an Asset Management Tool

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The Bridge - 30.4

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Texas Underseal: Cracking Up to Be a Good Treatment for Michigan Roads
  • Q&A on Preventive Maintanence with CPM Engineer Rob Green
  • Moving Michigan's Infrastructure into the 21st Century
  • Excel PivotTables, Easy as 1-2-3
  • 'The Guy that's Making an Improvment': Paul Spitzley
  • Announcement: Great Ideas Challenge
  • Announcement: MDOT Category F Applications for FY 2019

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The Bridge - 30.3

Articles in this Issue:

  • A Snow Plow’s Cameras & Lights: Keeping Them in Action
  • A Conduit for Compliance: Tackling PA 51 Data Submission
  • Pavement Markings: Reflecting More than What Meets a Driver's Eye
  • Pre-wetted Salt: Making Sense of New Salting Solutions
  • Tow Plows in Michigan
  • Making Ice Cream!
  • Highway Maintenance Conference
  • Selecting Pavement Marking Materials

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The Bridge - 30.2

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Seeking the Qualified: Qualifications-based Selection
  • Rising to the Challenge: Robert Laitinen
  • Mumblings on Rumblings
  • 2016 Great Ideas Challenge
  • Preventing Drowsy Driving
  • Once in a Thousand Years--A Michigan Storm Event
  • Stormproofing Principles Applied to Local Roads
  • Digitizing the Rumble Strip?
  • Free Transportation Asset Management for Elected Local Officials

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Construction, TAMC

The Bridge - 30.1

Articles in this Issue: 
  • TAMC Website 2.0
  • Getting Youth Excited about Road Commissions
  • Tips for Preventing Heat Stress
  • Making Construction Information Accessible
  • Perparing for Emergency Means Fostering Relationships

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Asset Management

The Bridge - 29.4

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Paving the Way for Your Successor
  • The Need for Bridge Asset Management
  • South Dakota LTAP's Gravel Guru: Ken Skorseth
  • FY 2018 Category F Application Period

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Safety, Gravel Roads, Innovation

The Bridge - 29.3

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Crumb Rubber Asphalt Trial on Michigan Roads
  • Becoming ADA Compliant
  • PPE: Investing in a Safety Lifestyle
  • 12 Tips for Maintaining Unpaved Roads

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Winter Preparation

The Bridge - 29.2

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Superior Ideas for Winter Maintenance
  • Restoring Whites Covered Bridge
  • Increasing Clarity by Writing Concisely
  • The Road from Engineer to Manager
  • Michigan LTAP Intern Wins Logo Competition

Additional Links

Video of Superior Stick

Marquette County Road Commission's Wing Plow Operations Guide

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Great Ideas, Safety

The Bridge - 29.1

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Preventing Aggregate Segregation in HMA
  • 2015 Great Ideas Challenge results
  • Lapeer CRC adopts systemic safety
  • Mobile apps for transportation professionals

Additional Links

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Great Ideas, Safety

The Bridge - 28.4

Articles in this Issue: 
  • Michigan: A longtime Pioneer in Traffic Safety
  • Geogrid Projects in Houghton and Baraga
  • Applications for Category F Grants now Open
  • New Technology at CTT On-site Training
  • Announcing the 2015 Great Ideas Challenge

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