Q: How do you move a 3.5 million-pound bridge?
A: One inch at a time.
For the new Larpenteur Ave. Bridge over I-35E north of St. Paul, Minn., MnDOT used an innovative slide-in-bridge-construction
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St. Paul, MN: Sliding the Larpenteur Avenue Bridge Into Place
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014Oregon: The Beauty of Mt. Hood and the Safety of U.S. 26
Tuesday, July 15th, 2014
Our safety project on Mt. Hood will affect your travel in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Learn what we are doing and how you will be affected.
View this complete post...Washoe County, NV: Constructing I-580’s Galena Bridge
Monday, July 14th, 2014
The I-580 freeway extension between Reno and Carson City opened in late August 2012. This time lapse video shows construction of the freeway’s showcase bridge, the Galena Creek Bridge.
View this complete post...Denver, CO: Repairing the Pecos Street Bridge Over I-80 (Time Lapse)
Friday, July 11th, 2014
Colorado DOT reconstructs the Pecos Street Bridge over I-70 outside of Denver. This 60-second time lapse video makes it look easy!
View this complete post...Wasting Our Waterways: Toxic Industrial Pollution and Restoring the Promise of the Clean Water Act
Friday, July 11th, 2014
ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA
Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year – threatening both the environment and human health. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), toxic discharges from industrial facilities are responsible for polluting more than 17,000 miles of rivers and about 210,000 acres of lakes, ponds and estuaries nationwide.
Baltimore, MD: Building Resilience Through Immigration
Thursday, July 10th, 2014
Two years ago, the city of Baltimore, in a bid to reverse population decline, announced a plan to draw 10,000 people to the city. One of the key demographics would be immigrants. Here, we look at why immigration is well-suited to helping a city bounce back from the shock of depopulation.
View this complete post...Bicycling in New Brunswick, NJ
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014
The City of New Brunswick has installed shared lanes, known as sharrows, and dedicated bike lanes throughout the City. These lanes include a dedicated bike lane on Remsen Avenue and sharrows in the 2nd, 5th and 6th Wards. Other City funds are being used to create lanes in other non-residential areas of town, such as College Avenue.
View this complete post...Los Angeles Parking Meter Reform, Reasonable Edition
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
The LA Times Editorial Board published a post this morning imploring city officials to come up with a more just system, so I’m throwing out a few ideas. My motivation here is two-fold. First, to find a solution that maintains high enough fees to discourage scofflaws because parking turnover is important to both consumers and businesses — $23 simply doesn’t meet that requirement. Second, to minimize the frustration of excessive fines resulting from the rare, honest mistake, and to reduce the confusion that leads to those mistakes. If you get three parking tickets a month, it’s you that needs to re-evaluate, not the city. Parking tickets have a place in a congested, highly urbanized city, but they must be perceived as fair if they’re to survive. Here are my recommendations:
View this complete post...Virginia DOT: Restoring the I-95 Bridges
Monday, July 7th, 2014
VDOT project manager Scott Fisher talks about the I-95 Bridges Restoration Project that took place in Richmond, Va.
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Seattle, WA: Building Underground Walls to Fix Bertha
Friday, July 4th, 2014
Raw footage of crews installing one of the 73 intersecting piles that will enclose the 120-foot-deep pit that will allow crews to access and repair Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine.
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