Have you ever wondered what goes on during the rock blasting closures on I-90? This is a montage of rock blasting operations on I-90 from 2013.
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Washington State: Road Closures for Rock Blasting
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014Lake Washington, WA: Coffer Cell Launch
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013On Nov. 26, 2013, SR 520 bridge construction crews launched a 660-ton coffer cell onto Lake Washington. This coffer cell will be used to create a dry work space so that crews can complete repairs to the end walls of Pontoon U and Pontoon V on Lake Washington.
View this complete post...Improving Statewide Freight Routing Capabilities for Sub-National Commodity Flows
Monday, November 19th, 2012WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Executive Summary Existing transportation network models assume that vehicles select the least costly path between origin and destination. This cost can entail time, distance, money, or a combination of these factors. This project used three approaches to investigate the reasonableness of this assumption and produced recommendations for revising the least […]
View this complete post...Medina, Washington: State Route 520 Girder Installation
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Crews spent Oct. 15-17, 2011, installing 24 huge girders above State Route 520 in Medina, Wash., as part of a new overpass that will have a park and ride, transit access, landscaping and paths. Shorter 48-ton girders now span the eastbound lanes and longer, 106-ton girders span the westbound lanes. Girders were trucked north on […]
View this complete post...Washington State: SR 99 Viaduct On Ramp Demolition
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011Crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) fired up the demolition equipment at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, and spent the night crunching and breaking the nearly 60-year-old First Avenue S. northbound on-ramp into bits.
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