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Transportation Enhancement Program |
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2003 Statewide Transportation Plan
(Mn/DOT) |
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Local Plan & Development Process - Mn/DOT's Guide to Simplify |
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When is it time to pave a gravel road? (LTAP Technology Exchange
Summer 2005 Vol.13, No. 3) |
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Minnesota Tribes & Transportation E-Handbook (Mn/DOT) |
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CONNECTIONS - The National
Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse Newsletter
(Vol. 8, No.4, Fall of
2005) |
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Impacts of Overweight Implements of
Husbandry on Minnesota Roads and Bridges
(LRRB) |
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To pave or not to pave: materials help you
decide (LTAP) |
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Economics of Upgrading an Aggregate
Road (LRRB, 2005) |
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More Years of Mobility |
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Frontier Trails To Multi-Lane Highways
Old days of sweat-equity now replaced with complicated
funding formulas
From the good 'ol days of horse-drawn wagons to today's
sport utility vehicles, state roads are built with blood, sweat
and money -- lots of money. The middle of the 19th century
brought legislative and congressional changes so that counties
could use property tax dollars to fund roads that were
needed for military purposes. Those who could not pay
property taxes outright had the option of working on roads for
$2 a day. But regardless, all males, ages 21-50, were
required to spend two days a year helping build local roads.
To read this entire article by Patty Janovec and published in
the March 10th, 2006 edition of the Session Weekly,
click here.
More to come... |
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