2024 Was a Growth Year for Good Roads
It has been a dynamic year for Arkansas Good Roads. In some ways, we are more engaged and visible than the organization has ever been.
Posts by Joe Quinn:
80 Years After D-Day
Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director On a beautiful night recently, I was driving through White Hall as the sun started to set, and there wasn’t much passing traffic. It was a peaceful moment…a welcome break near the end of what had been a stressful week. As I drove past the little White Hall Museum, I […]
Honor Them in a Way That is Worthy
It’s a Friday afternoon, and the tenth floor at the Arkansas Department of Transportation building is quiet. Director Lorie Tudor and I sit in her office and talk about the memorial being planned for ARDOT workers and Arkansas Highway Police Officers who have died while working. Some states already have elaborate memorials built. Arkansas only has a very modest display involving orange highway cones in an office hallway. Each cone represents an ARDOT worker who has died while working.
When Government Listens and Responds | From The Executive Director
Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director If there ever was a time to think about why infrastructure development matters, it’s right now in Arkansas. An infusion of $3.8 billion in federal funding means there is a great deal of road and bridge work being done at the local and state levels. I was idly thinking of […]
The Story of a Bridge in Hardy Represents American Infrastructure Issues
by Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director It’s difficult to visualize if you haven’t walked through the mud to stand at the end of the Humphries Ford Bridge in Hardy, Arkansas. The bridge is so low it seems to sit on top of the water. It’s narrow, and there is no guardrail. But despite all […]
What if it Were Someone You Loved? | From the Executive Director
by Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director In early September, my wife and daughter and I were at the wedding of a young man who is the son of a family we have been close to for decades. The event was a reunion of families who raised our children together. We shared third grade birthday parties, […]