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AGC Calls for More Police at Construction Sites to Cut Work Zone Fatalities

Highway and Transportation Division Chair Dean Word (right), Dean Word Co, Texas joins Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez at a National Work Zone Awareness Week Kickoff event in New York City.

Highway and Transportation Division Chair Dean Word (right), Dean Word Co, Texas, joins Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez at a National Work Zone Awareness Week Kickoff event in New York City.

AGC used the start of the annual Work Zone Awareness campaign to call for increased police presence at highway and transit construction sites nationwide to cut the hundreds of work zone fatalities that take place every year. Read AGC's press release here. For more information, contact Brian Turmail at (703) 837-5310 or turmailb@agc.org.