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A weekly wrap up of the latest news and notes concerning North Carolina transportation. In this episode: No Need 2 Speed Campaign is successful and NCDOT Ferry crew members help out boaters in distress.
-NCDOTcommunications on YouTube
View this complete post...Over, under, around and through the Barber Bridge…one of Oregon’s highest. See how our inspectors keep motorists safe.
-OregonDOT on YouTube
MDOT’s Matthew Chynoweth shows some of the innovative materials being used to reconstruct the Pembroke Avenue bridge as part of the M-39 (Southfield Freeway) project in Detroit.
View this complete post...It’s time for Detroit to reclaim the mantle of transportation innovation. A light rail line running down the middle of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue, “Mainline Option A,” will be faster, safer, and more reliable than the side-running alternative, “Mainline Option B.” Let’s bring the trains down the middle! Tell it to the feds by March 14: take a moment to submit a comment to woodwardlightrail@detroitmi.gov. See TransportMichigan.org for more information.
-TrainsDownTheMiddle on YouTube
We can engineer the pavement material to have porosity. We can engineer voids into the material so that instead of 4% air voids, we can have up to 20% air voids that allow water to penetrate through the pavement surface.
With the porous pavement option, we have water flowing through the surface of the pavement and into the stone where we can store the water. Then it will eventually infiltrate into the natural sub-grade that we have underneath.
Crews 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.
-wsdot on YouTube
Proterra was founded in 2004 to build the “bus of tomorrow.” And with the help of the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration, the company has succeeded–creating an electric bus that can be recharged in under ten minutes. But Proterra is doing more than just creating a greener, cleaner mode of transportation–it’s […]
View this complete post...Nestled at the base of the West Valley’s majestic mountains, the White Tanks Regional Water Treatment Facility is leading the way to protect Arizona’s most precious resource — water.
View this complete post...“In The Field” is a series of videos aimed at sharing innovations, research and new technology throughout the Michigan Department of Transportation. In this latest installment, MDOT’s Andy Bennett describes the process MDOT is using to crush removed pavement and recycle it into the base course of pavement that is being newly constructed.
View this complete post...The ice was so thick the plows helped break it up and thin it out so the mag chloride treatment would work faster. TxDOT crews all across Texas have been on the job operating in 12 hour shifts since January 31, 2011.
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