The recipients were so young when they lost their fathers.

From the article:  “This is the type of accident we are trying to reduce,” Transportation project manager Jerry Moore said Monday.  Workers are not currently working with heavy equipment in the roadway but on adjacent property, so there is no reason to lower the speed limit, Moore said.

“My advice to people is, when you are driving through the project, pay attention to the road,” he said.

And from the “Reader Comments”, this comment, which describes that awful feeling when you are the last car stuck in a work zone queue:

“Once they get inside that work zone, now we have workers, we have dads, we have brothers, we have fathers. We want those people to be able to go home at night just like everybody else,” DOT traffic engineer Randy Asman said.

“I didn’t like it,” she said.  “It’s rough; it’s loud; it can be real irritating.”

This from a driver, about her experience driving over RoadQuake 2 Temporary Portable Rumble Strips. 

The driver meant her comments as complaint; to us, it’s high compliment.   The product did its job.  RoadQuake 2 alerted her to an upcoming construction work zone.

We certainly do not intend to irritate the American driver.  Heaven knows they are irritated enough already.  But compare a little irritation to this fact, from the same news report: 

“Texas has more accidents in work zones than any other state — 17,000 last year, which killed 134 people.  Most of the fatalities are drivers, not highway workers.”

We vote for loud and irritating over injured or dead.  How about you?

And frightening.  Here’s why….from the article:

“But all that construction means that about 1,500 workers will be on the roads each day, and concerns are rising about their safety.”

RoadQuake 2 Temporary Portable Rumble Strips play a prominent role in the system.

Read on!

The full article:

Officials in Georgia have decided to move the boyhood home of Little Richard to spare it from a highway construction project.

Macon Mayor Robert Reichert made the announcement Friday. WMAZ-TV reports  that the 80-year-old singer is receiving an honorary degree on Saturday from Mercer University.

Born Richard Wayne Penniman, Little Richard grew up in Macon’s Pleasant Hill community. That’s a neighborhood that was later divided by the construction of Interstate 75.

The “Tutti Frutti” singer’s boyhood home faced possible demolition to make room for a planned expansion of the interchange where I-75 meets Interstate 16 to Savannah.

City officials said the home will be relocated to a lot near the Pleasant Hill community garden. At its new location, the house will be used as a neighborhood resource center.

Here’s a pic of the mosaic; read the article here.