MORE NATURAL ROADSIDES--WITHIN LIMITS

Woody growth became a problem when budget cutbacks forced the New York State Department of Transportation (NYDOT) to allow roadsides to revert to a natural state. The economical solution? New brush-cutting machines. A 1979 mowing-needs survey had determined that NYDOT's ten regions were required to mow a total of 3,930 acres. On a region-by-region basis, based on the productivity of the trial mower, each region required either two or three machines, for a state-wide total of 23 tractor-mounted mowers (based on one mowing per season). The use of growth retardants has declined. While early retardants were marginally effective, this is not a problem with the currently used material. Rather, the state has concluded that the cost of applying the chemical is equal to the cost of two mowings.

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  Public Works Journal Corporation

  P.O. Box 688
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Publication Date: 1984-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 62-65
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 115
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brush control; Chemicals; Costs; Mowers; Mowing; Retarders (Chemistry); Roadside; Vegetation control
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390008
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM