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 […]
The right side of this photo is the 100-year-old Humphries Ford Bridge in Hardy, Arkansas. Hundreds of cars a week have been passing over this aging structure only inches above the Spring River. When the heavy rains come and the river rises, local police and firefighters are often called to rescue drivers who ended up […]
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, […]
Unified Voices in an Angry World By Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director On a September Tuesday afternoon in El Dorado, it still feels like summer as dozens of state and community leaders who have impacted infrastructure growth in Arkansas for decades gather to celebrate Madison Murphy. Murphy is a legendary business leader who in 2012 […]
Keeping Politics off Arkansas’s Highways By Deborah Horn There are political voices in Arkansas who have periodically suggested abolishing or rewriting the 70-year-old Mack-Blackwell Amendment. During the 2023 Legislative Session, Senate Joint Resolutions 7 and 15 were introduced that would give legislators more of a say in highway business and where commissioners are appointed from. […]
Since early 2020, highway crashes, serious injuries, and deaths have sharply increased by about 40 percent, but in highway construction work zones the increase was estimated at up to almost 70 percent. These numbers are causing the asphalt construction industry and experts to take notice. Speeding, raging, drinking, and distracted driving are ranked as top […]