(Re-posted with permission from Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2)) This time-lapse video shows accelerated bridge construction (ABC) techniques being used by a local contractor with standard equipment to replace a three-span bridge on U.S. 6 over Keg Creek in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. The $2.7 million reconstruction project is a cooperative effort involving FHWA, the [...]
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Pottawattamie County, IA: Keg Creek Bridge Replacement
Monday, February 6th, 2012New York City, NY: Henry Hudson Bridge Stringer Replacement
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012MTA Bridges and Tunnels’ Henry Hudson Bridge is undergoing work to replace decades-old structural elements. – mtainfo on YouTube
View this complete post...2012 Pocket Guide to Transportation
Monday, January 30th, 2012U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration produces the Pocket Guide to Transportation as a compact resource that provides snapshots of the U.S. transportation system and highlights major transportation trends.
Phoenix, AZ: Loop 303/Greenway Road Construction Bypass
Friday, January 27th, 2012Uploaded by ArizonaDOT on YouTube.
Remember this awesome time-lapse video showing the construction of a temporary bypass at Greenway Road and the Loop 303?
Well, today we’ve got an even more in-depth look at how crews built the new intersection – complete with temporary barriers, fences and traffic signals – in just about 43 hours!
View this complete post...Illinois to Missouri: The New Mississippi River Bridge
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Construction work on the Mississippi River Bridge project has begun.The new Mississippi River Bridge is the first bridge built connecting downtown St. Louis and southwestern Illinois in more than 40 years. Currently, the only urban interstate bridge between Illinois and Missouri is the Poplar Street Bridge, known locally as the PSB. The PSB is one [...]
View this complete post...Great American Infrastructure: The Sundial Bridge, Redding, CA
Thursday, January 5th, 2012This is the eleventh in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States. What: The Sundial Bridge, a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava , is also-as its name suggests-a sundial. When: The bridge opened July 4, 2004 Why: The Sundial Bridge links the north and south campuses of Turtle [...]
View this complete post...The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy
Thursday, December 29th, 2011Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN’T resonance.
And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf
“Brooklyn Bridge Ride” – In A Brooklyn Minute
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011On Monday late afternoon I rode my bike across the Brooklyn Bridge and filmed it with a GoPro for you.
The result is nothing like I expected. So I let frustrations and happy accidents fall where they may and bring you a ride that almost looks like an “impressionist painting stop-animation” of biking across the Brooklyn Bridge.
View this complete post...San Francisco, CA: Bay Bridge Cable Animation
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011Animation of how the longest suspension cable in the world will be installed over the next few months on the new Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge. ZushaElinson1 on YouTube.
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