This video explains improvements UDOT is making across the signals system, including an explanation how the radar works for vehicle and bicycle detection. Over the last year integrated transportation was implemented on projects on Redwood Road, S.R. 68.
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Utah DOT: Integrating All Modes of Transportation
Posted by Infra on Monday, November 3rd, 2014McCall, ID: Moving the Lardo Bridge Inch by Inch
Posted by Infra on Friday, October 31st, 2014Time lapse video shows the investment in time and manpower required to move McCall, Idaho’s Lardo Bridge just a few feet from its original location.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Akron, OH: All About That Bus
Posted by Infra on Thursday, October 30th, 2014We’re all about that bus and we hope you are, too 🙂
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Milton, KY: Time Lapse Video of Milton-Madison Bridge Milestones
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014This video highlights the construction milestones of the Milton-Madison Bridge, which include the rising of the trusses into place on temporary piers…the blasts that brought down the old bridge…and the amazing slide of the new bridge onto its permanent piers. The half-mile structure was slid 55 feet making this the longest bridge slide of its type in North America — perhaps the world.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Streetfilms – Kidical Mass NYC: “Zombie Ride,” Queens
Posted by Content Coordinator on Monday, October 27th, 2014About 30 folks attended the Kidical Mass “Zombie Ride” in Queens today. What a great time had by all participants.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Freight Matters: Washington State Farmers Feed the World
Posted by Infra on Monday, October 27th, 2014Chad Denny and his family grow wheat in eastern Washington and sell it to local mills and to the world. Their grain ships to their customers by road, highway, freight railroad, and the river system. How can our freight routes support family farmers? See the Washington State Freight Mobility Plan for more.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...South Davis, UT: True Love Tested by a Lane Split
Posted by Infra on Friday, October 24th, 2014On I-15 in the South Davis project lanes will be split to allow crews to work in the middle. Two lanes will be shifted to the inside of the interstate and two lanes will be shifted to the outside. This video will help explain how the lane shift will work.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...The Washington Post: How Do You Survive Your Commute?
Posted by Content Coordinator on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014Readers share stories of how they commute, how long it takes, how to survive and ideas for fixing the daily ride.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Lowell, MI: Sliding the Alden Nash Avenue Bridge Into Place
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014The new bridge will be constructed adjacent to the existing bridge and traffic will be diverted to the new bridge in its temporary location. The old structure was demolished and the new bridge was slid into place. Bridge slide technology greatly reduces the amount of time a bridge is out of service. M-50 was closed and detoured for only two weekends (during demolition and during the slide), as opposed to a multiple-month closure typically associated with a traditional bridge replacement.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Pasadena to Azusa, CA: Foothill Gold Line Light Rail
Posted by Infra on Friday, October 17th, 2014In anticipation of the October 18th ceremony celebrating the completion the light rail track installation for the 11.5-mile Foothill Gold Line light rail project from Pasadena to Azusa, the Construction Authority has released the video above highlighting the five-step process involved in building the track system.
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