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Contact: Greg Johnston, 505-277-1816 or gregj@unm.edu

January 3, 2006

Gov. Richardson to Speak at UNM Paving and Transportation Conference

The Forty-Third Paving and Transportation Conference, sponsored by the Department of Civil Engineering and the Alliance for Transportation Research Institute at the University of New Mexico, will be held Jan. 9-10 at the Marriott Pyramid North Hotel and Convention Center in Albuquerque. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will deliver the opening session keynote address at 10 a.m. on Jan. 9.

Other opening session speakers include New Mexico Transportation Secretary Rhonda Faught, Ohkay Owingeh tribal Gov. Joe Garcia and Emil H. Frankel, former assistant secretary for Transportation Policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Frankel currently is with Parsons Brinckerhoff, an international consulting, engineering and program management organization.

Conference topics include infrastructure durability, safety and reliability and socio-economic issues relating to transportation.

A small registration fee is required to attend. For more information, contact conference chair Jim Brogan at 277-1314.

 


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