What’s brine? It’s simple: salt and water! The liquid mixture is used to pretreat roadways in the winter. Using brine is proving to save time and money! – WVDOT on YouTube
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Posted by Infra on Tuesday, November 5th, 2013Atchison, KS: What Does it Take to Take Down a Bridge?
Posted by Content Coordinator on Friday, November 1st, 2013
KDOT Engineer Michelle Anschutz speaks about what it took to take down the old Amelia Earhart Bridge. -kansastransportation on YouTube.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Seattle: Broadway Protected Cycle Track
Posted by Infra on Thursday, October 31st, 2013
Just a few snippets and photos of Seattle’s newest cycle track. -Streetfilms on Vimeo
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...San Francisco: The MUNI Mash
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
A humorous music video encouraging Muni riders to yield their seats to seniors and people with disabilities. Produced by the SFMTA Multimodal Accessibility Advisory Committee with help Access SFUSD: The Arc, a community based program for students 18-22 with disabilities that focuses on teaching functional life skills within a community setting. – ktoran on YouTube
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Bridging America: Maintaining Our Rail Bridges
Posted by Content Coordinator on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013Maintaining America’s 140,000-mile rail network–and its approximately 100,000 bridges–is a top priority for the freight rail industry. In 2011, railroads invested $400 million in bridge maintenance to ensure freight is safely and efficiently transported across the country. Hear BNSF’s Stephanie Swanson and TTCI’s Duane Otter discuss the measures railroads take to ensure the nation’s rail bridges continue to deliver for America.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Shale Gas 201: Further Exploration of a Domestic Resource
Posted by Infra on Monday, October 28th, 2013
A continuation of the conversation started in “Natural Gas 101” from the first season of Rational Middle Energy videos, “Natural Gas 201” discusses the ways natural gas can contribute to the recovery of the economy from the Great Recession, as well as taking a look at the relationship between renewables and gas now and in the future.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Chicago: Fighting Urban Flooding
Posted by Infra on Friday, October 25th, 2013
From the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT):
“Unlike flash flooding, urban flooding can affect people regardless of whether or not they live in a designated floodplain. It’s not about the creeks rising. Rather, it’s about how the impermeable built environment prevents water from being absorbed into the ground. Rainfall on asphalt cannot sink into the soil, so it often ends up running onto properties and into basements nearby.
Metro Freight: The Global Goods Trade that Moves Metro Economies (VIDEO)
Posted by Infra on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
This video highlights how the trading of goods is the lifeblood of metropolitan economies. The Metro Freight research series by the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings assesses goods trade at the metropolitan scale. It uses a unique and comprehensive database to capture all the goods moving in and out of U.S. metropolitan areas, both domestically and beyond. The reports in the series will describe which goods move between metropolitan areas, how they move via different modes of transportation, and uncover the specific trading relationships between U.S. metropolitan areas as well as their global counterparts.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Minneapolis: How Powderhorn Lake Got Clean
Posted by Infra on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Fifteen years ago, Powderhorn Lake in Minneapolis was in a dismal state—trash floated on the surface, the shoreline was eroding, and fertilizer and animal waste running off from the surrounding neighborhood caused frequent algae blooms…But today, thanks to the efforts of residents, the city, and other groups, Powderhorn Lake is a poster child for what can happen when citizens and government work together to create change.
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Arizona DOT: Archeological Survey Before Construction
Posted by Content Coordinator on Monday, October 21st, 2013
Prior to any sort of construction, ADOT must complete environmental surveys of the entire project area. Right now, ADOT is evaluating the US 89 project area to see if there are any archaeologically significant sites in the right of way. -ArizonaDOT on YouTube
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