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What Are Plastic Roads | How to Make Plastic Roads | Who Invented Plastic Roads | First Man Made Plastic Road | Advantages & Disadvantages of Plastic Roads

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What Are Plastic Roads? Plastic Roads are roads that are made completely of plastic or composites of plastic made with other materials. Plastic Roads are generally of two kinds. The first type of plastic road is made up of modular, hollow and prefabricated road elements made from waste consumer plastics.

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2018 ARTBA Transportation Construction Forecast: Modest

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The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) has released its economic forecast for 2018 and says the U.S. transportation infrastructure market is anticipated to rebound slightly next year, following a 2.8 percent drop in 2017.

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ARTBA Forecasts 1.3 Percent Growth in 2017

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Total transportation construction and related market activity is expected to grow 1.3 percent in 2017, driven largely by increases in highway and bridge private construction activity supporting residential and commercial developments, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) chief economist.

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W.Va. Transportation Chief Told to Hit the Road

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Jim Justice (R) dismissed Secretary of Transportation Tom Smith on March 10 in an apparent dispute over the use of funds from a $1.6-billion billion bond issue endorsed by the state’s voters in October 2017. West Virginia Gov.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction. To assist those interested in making the journey, Pro Builder and the Pittsburgh-based Housing Innovation Alliance initiated a comprehensive “IC Road Map” with the help of a working group consisting of home builders, suppliers, researchers, and other industry experts.

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Ohio Transportation Bill to Pay For 96,000 Jobs

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John Kasich of Ohio signed a $7 billion transportation budget that will target highway work and is expected to pay for 96,000 jobs over the next two years. Nearly $6 billion will be used by the Ohio Department of Transportation for 1,600 highway construction and maintenance projects. million in 2016 and again in 2017. '

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Las Vegas Growth Spurs $3B in Road Projects Underway in Clark County

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CONEXPO 2017 was set in fast-growing Las Vegas, where the Nevada Dept. of Transportation, 100 years old this year, “has $3 billion in road projects underway in Clark County alone,” said Tony Illia, NDOT public information officer.