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Search results for "Florida Department of Transportation" ...
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Our Deadly Traffic
The authors investigated why fatality rates on the roads had sky-rocketed in Lee County, FL.
Tags: traffic fatalities; accidents; Department of Transportation; the Florida Highway Patrol; Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
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Where's my stuff?
This hidden camera investigation uncovers a scam by internet moving companies. It found some of these internet moving companies stealing consumer's furniture and personal belongings, while overcharging them at the same time A lack of governmental oversight and ineffective federal regulations have created a vacuum that has allowed moving companies to prey on consumers. The laws are rarely enforced, and often times corrupt movers close up shop when there are too many consumer complaints and re-open under new names, making it impossible for consumers to check them out.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; internet moving companies; moving; moving industry; U.S. Movers; Ace Storage Facility; MovingAdvocateTeam.com; Majesty Moving and Storage; Apollo Van Lines; Moving System; AAA Van Lines; Advanced Moving Systems of Sunrise Florida; Department of Transportation; Ameri Van lines; Move-at-once; Adam Moving; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Motor Carrier Safety Administration; Moving Industry Fraud
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Traffic Congestion on U.S. 1 in Jensen Beach
Traffic congestion on a highly commercializes section of a highway in Jensen Beach was getting progressively worse because elected officials in that county allowed development to continue even though the highway fails to meet county standards for traffic flow. This investigation shows how this happened and what affects it will have on the community of Jensen Beach.
Tags: traffic; construction; commercial development; Florida Department of Transportation
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Road Racket
The story explains how some Florida contractors [involved in highway construction] "have used the claims process to re-engineer the low-bid system" because "they underbid to get the job and then try to make their profits with supplemental claims and lawsuits." From 1995 to 2000, Florida road builders demanded more than $185 million in claims from the State's Department of Transportation. Anderson Columbia Co. and White Construction were two of the companies that accounted for most lawsuits filed from 1995 to 2000 (18 percent and 13 percent), respectively.
Tags: Anderson Columbia Co.; White Construction; JB Coxwell Contracting; Florida Department of Transportation; Florida Transportation Builders Association; Pensacola; Tallahassee; Dispute Resolution Board; Florida Legislature
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The Road to Richies?
A long sliver of land, the landscaped swale was destined to serve as a buffer between Chuck's Steak House and asphalt of State Road 7 in Plantation. But when the Department of Transportation began widening the highway, state engineers decided it was land they needed. Florida has a unique system of acquiring land for roads. And as the case of Chuck's curbside property shows, the state ends up spending extraordinary sums.
Tags: state road; paving
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Florida's Troubled Bridges
WFLA-TV reports on the "premature corrosion of the Sunshine Skyway and other post-tensioned concrete bridges in Florida." The stories describe how the state Department of transportation tried to hide the flawed construction methods, and uncovers a "series of near calamities affecting several major bridges in rapid succession across the state." The coverage triggered reforms in the national bridge code.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; engineering; construction; corrosion; maintenance; transportation; safety
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The Sunshine Skyway
A series of stories by the Tampa Tribune "detail the premature corrosion of the Sunshine Skyway and other post-tensioned concrete bridges in Florida. They reveal how Flordia's" Department of Transportation "tried to keep the problems under wraps and how the issues eventually triggered substantial changes in the way post-tensioned bridges are designed and built not only in Florida but across the nation.
Tags: post-tensioned concrete bridges; Florida; Sunshine Skyway; corrosion; Florida Department of Transportation
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I-95: More Dangerous Than Ever
Florida Today anatomizes the agregious mortality rate on I-95 in Florida. Department of Transportation figures are analyzed and public officals and victims' stories are told.
Tags: highway safety; Interstate 95; Florida; Department of Transportation; trucking; accidents
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Who paves the way for Anderson Columbia?
The News Journal finds that two agencies have been poor guardians of Floridians' safety, environment, and pocketbooks. For example a single road-construction company consistently receives a lion's share of state contracts and dominates the paving industry in Northwest Florida. A four-month investigation has found that the state has watched Anderson Columbia skirt environmental laws, ignore contract requirements and dodge efforts to force the company in to compliance.
Tags: contractor; department of transportation; department of environmental protection; health
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Tampa Tribune (Fla.) chronicles the errors that left the Florida Department of Transportation broke and forced the resignations and terminations of the senior management team; 18 stories, January - June 1989.
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