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Friday, November 27th, 2015Michigan DOT: M-100 Bridge Slide Time Lapse
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
In the early morning hours of Saturday, Nov. 14, MDOT performed a bridge slide on the new M-100 bridge over the Canadian National (CN) Railroad in Potterville. A bridge slide is an innovative construction project that allows traffic to be maintained throughout the project. The new bridge is built alongside the old one, and once complete, the old bridge is demolished and the new bridge is slid over in its place.
View this complete post...Louisiana DOTD: Why Surveying Crews Are Vital to Roadwork
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
This animation from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development explains what survey crews do, and why their work is vital to the preliminary aspects of highway development.
View this complete post...Wichita, KS: Testing the New Bike Lanes
Friday, November 6th, 2015
GoPro footage from an Eagle (amateur) bicyclist testing out the new bike lanes in downtown Wichita. (Matt Riedl/The Wichita Eagle)
View this complete post...Utah DOT: What Is Optimized Mobility?
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
UDOT employees were asked to define what “optimized mobility” is, as part of a presentation by Region One director Kris Petersen and Comptroller director Becky Bradshaw at the 2015 UDOT Annual Conference.
View this complete post...EarthCam Timelapse: University of Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Cheer on the Kentucky Wildcats at Commonwealth Stadium with EarthCam! After a $126 million renovation, the New CWS reopened during the University’s sesquicentennial. Watch interior and exterior construction from June 2014 – June 2015 in less than two minutes with this time-lapse.
View this complete post...Oregon DOT: Rehabilitating the Historic Siskiyou Rail
Monday, November 2nd, 2015
How a 65 mile section of the historic and rugged Siskiyou rail line in southern Oregon and northern California was opened using a mix of public and private funds, including $7 million in federal TIGER funds. Rail construction reopened the line that had been closed since 2008.
View this complete post...North Carolina DOT: Making an Old Road New
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
There are several steps involved in the removal and replacement of the highway surface and sub-structure.
Shifting traffic — Crews establish a work zone and work with paint and barrier wall crews.
Demolishing the road — There are several parts involved in this process and they include milling, or removing the asphalt, breaking the concrete, moving the material out of the way and then crushing it.
Pipe installation — This involves digging up and removing old pipe and installing new pipe.
Oregon DOT: Bolting Rocks
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
A 150-ton rock is bolted to the face of a cliff to keep the rock from falling to the roadway on Highway 58, eighteen miles east of Oakridge, OR.
View this complete post...Infra & the Humanities: The Aesthetics of Water Infrastructure
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Infrastructure is not just about connections between technological aspects of civilization, it is also about the lack of connections. For every link between buildings and cities via power lines, fiber optics, and water pipe, there is another fence, a wall, or a vault buried underneath the earth. Environmental art seeks to engage connections between people and landscapes, but it does not have a monopoly on these aesthetic relationships. And in fact, entities such as large public infrastructure authorities often have way more power to engage these connections, or to shut them off.
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