A person who designs, builds, or maintains roads.
a package of measures had been designed by highway engineers to try to prevent speeding
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- Highway engineers laid out a special roadway stretching 13 kilometres down to the docks on the Tennessee River.
- The bridge should reopen within five weeks, a fortnight early, say highways engineers.
- The provision of crash barriers is apparently left to the discretion of individual highway engineers.
- Highways engineers started design work on improvements planned for the town centre.
- Once they are in place, highway engineers will monitor their effect on speeding along the whole of the road.
- A vast number of planning applications are received first by the highways engineers.
- He became chief highway engineer in 2004, with oversight of the delivery of the trunk road.
- Council highway engineers said such a large development would need at least two access points to comply with planning guidance.
- Highway engineers were due to place disinfected mats at 120 cattle grids around the edge of the forest.
- State highway engineers found no red flags after reviewing inspection reports from 23 of the 24 steel-deck truss bridges in Massachusetts with similar designs.