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Oregon: Columbia River Crossing Project Risks

Monday, January 20th, 2014
New Data Reveals Lower Demand

1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON
In 2005 Oregon and Washington began a process to identify the key needs for re-designing five miles of freeway and interchanges including the Interstate 5 Bridge, which was built in two phases in 1917 and 1958. In 2013 the Oregon legislature voted to support a bi-state proposal in which the costs, risk, and management experience were shared with Washington state. Later in 2013, the Washington legislature failed to support the project…Losing this partner raises many questions for the future of the project.

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NYC: Documenting a Flawed Pedestrian Crossing

Monday, January 20th, 2014

Documenting where people have been killed by motorists in 2014.
Map of 2014 traffic violence: batchgeo.com/map/55e0ecd5ce1dcc24badd23efd8fcd254
Map of 2013 traffic violence: batchgeo.com/map/0f05e7eba3d60c353cbc0987c77404a4
Additional #VisionZero2014 videos: vimeo.com/album/2684188

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This Infra Week

Friday, January 17th, 2014
Bike Portland-Image by GBD Architects

INFRA STORIES YOU SHOULDN’T MISS!

-Portland Apartment Complexes Embrace Cyclists
-A Bump in the Track for Acela
-Chicago’s Ashland BRT Proposal Get Mixed Reviews
-Silver Line Closed Until Undisclosed Construction End Date

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Smyrna, DE: Welcome Back, Carter!

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Urban Engineers (Urban) joined Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Transportation Secretary Shailen Bhatt, and members of the project team and local community to celebrate the completion of the Carter Road – Sunnyside Road to Wheatleys Pond Road Reconstruction. Learn more about this project here: http://bit.ly/1dg3Xqt

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2014 Georgia Infrastructure Report Card

Thursday, January 16th, 2014
ga report card thumb

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS: GEORGIA SECTION
With new grades for the first time since 2009, Georgia’s infrastructure has shown very little improvement and once again received a cumulative grade of C. The Georgia Section of ASCE assessed the same 12 categories as 2009: aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, parks and recreation, ports, rail, roads, school facilities, solid waste, stormwater, transit and wastewater. Recognizing the importance of transportation to Georgians, we added two new categories in 2014: ports and rail. As indicated by the grade, much work remains to be done, though there are some bright spots.

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Washington, DC: Freezing the Ground for the First Street Tunnel

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

DC Water’s Contractor (SKJD) will utilize an innovative ground freezing technology to improve ground condition in advance of shaft, adit and near surface construction of the First Street Tunnel Project. By creating a natural gas generated closed loop brine system, the ground will be stabilized in advance of excavation. Ground Freezing ensures that the required excavation in the four construction staging areas for this important project will be fully stabilized.

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NYC Streets Metamorphosis: 2002-2014

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

There’s nothing more dramatic than looking back five or ten years at Streetfilms footage to see how much the streets of New York City have changed. In this wonderful montage, check out the incredible changes at Times Square, Herald Square, the Brooklyn waterfront, and many other places that outgoing NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and her staff have intrepidly transformed.

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Auburn, Maine: Hotel Road Bridge Construction

Monday, January 13th, 2014

Auburn Hotel Road bridge construction including construction of cofferdams, floating girders, gfrp reinforcement and lateral slide.
-Eric Calderwood on YouTube

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NYC: Riders Waiting for Subway in Super Slow Motion

Friday, January 10th, 2014

Excerpt of “Stainless,” 42nd Street

High speed video recording in NYC at Grand Central station.

original footage: 10min. 49sec. 720p 50fps

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Los Angeles: Refurbishing a Light Rail Car

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

Time lapse video of Metro Blue Line train refurbishing.

For more information visit http://www.metro.net/bluelineupgrades

-Metro Los Angeles on YouTube

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