This short video aims to educate motorists on how potholes form, how the department addresses them and most importantly, how to report their location to PennDOT.
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Pennsylvania DOT: Pothole Patrol
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016Roadway Safety Institute: Finding Solutions to Save Lives
Friday, July 15th, 2016The video highlights research, education, and outreach conducted at the Roadway Safety Institute to reduce roadway crashes and fatalities, including work in the areas of tribal land travelers, rail crossings, impaired drivers, and older drivers.
View this complete post...“Imagine Transportation” Community Crowdsourcing: What We’ve Heard
Friday, July 15th, 2016We asked 800+ organizations across all 10 counties: What changes to transportation would make the biggest difference to the populations or clients you serve? You told us we that there are many good reasons for working together to improve and invest our regional transportation system!! In addition to these problems, you gave many suggestions for the types of projects or changes that would help solve these problems. Now the RTA is sorting through those responses as well as looking at what other regions and experts have done to identify opportunities for new investment that will address these problems of regional connectivity and mobility.
View this complete post...Arizona DOT: Girder Installation Timelapse
Wednesday, July 13th, 2016Earlier this week, ADOT installed more girders on our Bell & Grand (US 60) project. Here’s a look at the first 3 girders.
View this complete post...MnDOT: St. Croix Crossing Sunrise Timelapse
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016Sunrise over the St. Croix Crossing, summer 2016. St. Croix Crossing connects Oak Park Heights, MN and St. Joseph, WI. The structure over the St. Croix River is expected to open in 2017.
View this complete post...Philadelphia, PA: Transit, Density and Opportunity
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016CENTER CITY DISTRICT
Transit is not just a convenience; it is essential to the density that enables Center City to provide 42% of all jobs in Philadelphia. If downtown workers relied on cars to the same degree as commuters across the region, then 295,000 workers would arrive each day in 227,150 cars. At 330 square feet per parking space, we would need a giant, surface parking lot of 2.6 square miles – larger than William Penn’s original plan for the city (2.2 square miles river to river, Vine to South) – leaving little room for the office buildings, hotels, hospitals, universities, residences, cultural institutions, historic destinations, restaurants, retail shops and parks that define the diversity and create employment opportunities downtown.
Montgomery County, NC: WiFi En Route
Monday, July 4th, 2016In 2015, the U.S. Department of Education awarded Montgomery County Schools an Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund grant. With funding from the grant and additional support from partners,Curriculum Associates, Golden LEAF Foundation and Dream Builders Communications, the school system launched a new initiative, “A Culture Creating Effective Systems for Success” (ACCESS). Montgomery County Schools started a one device per student (1:1) program and outfitted eight buses with WiFi hotspots.
View this complete post...Minnesota DOT: The Noise Wall Video
Friday, July 1st, 2016MnDOT details the Who, What, Where and Why of noise walls. Are they right for your community?
View this complete post...Connecting North Carolina: State Broadband Plan
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE OFFICE
…broadband’s benefits are not evenly dispersed and a digital divide, or “a gulf between those who have ready access to the internet and computers,” and those that don’t, is growing. Many communities, typically in sparsely populated or economically-distressed areas lack access to infrastructure or affordable service. Additionally, broadband adoption—the proportion of citizens subscribing to internet service—is low in NC given the rate of broadband availability in the state and contributes to the widening digital divide. This divide, new technologies, user demand, and greater reliance on internet access, necessitates ongoing infrastructure upgrades within our state.
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