MERIDIAN — As summer winds to an end -- so does the dreaded road construction season. Crews have been chip sealing our streets for months and are finally wrapping up this year's run. Major streets you ...

Safer roads begin with safer materials. For paving projects using asphalt chip seal, lightweight aggregate made from expanded shale, clay or slate (ESCS) has a greater bond strength and skid ...

The in basket: Tony Spivack and two others have complained about the chip seal repaving of Ridge Rim Trail, a county road near Burley-Glenwood Elementary School on Lakeway Boulevard in South Kitsap.

What would you say if I told you your driveway doesn’t need to be boring blacktop or ho-hum gray concrete? Can you envision a red, orange, green or light khaki color driveway? Would you like a ...

(WJAR) — An NBC 10 viewer wrote in to Ask Alison about rubberized asphalt chip seal and why Rhode Island doesn’t use it statewide. Gary wrote: "Cedar Swamp Rd in Smithfield was repaved with a mixture ...

The chip-and-seal method of road repair, a blend of asphalt and gravel, is being planned for 96 miles of Bartholomew County rural roads this year. That is substantially more than the 50 to 60 miles ...

Q: To seal, or not to seal: That is the question. Seattle’s Department of Transportation (SDOT) often hears from residents asking that something be done to maintain their neighborhood streets. This ...

Waikato, Bay of Plenty summer road maintenance programmes begin (3 min 33 sec) Throughout Waikato and Bay of Plenty, councils are rolling out their summer road maintenance programmes. Resurfacing of ...

NAMPA — Road surfaces do not last forever, but it is possible to extend their life. Chip sealing — or sealing a road’s cracks, followed by putting down a layer of asphalt and small gravel, or chips — ...