Some of the worst flooding in decades in Central Illinois post-levee break – roxymarie17 on YouTube.
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Central IL: Levee Break
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013Chicago, IL: Breaking Down the Wells Street Bridge
Thursday, March 7th, 2013Time lapse: Breaking down the Wells Street bridge in Chicago from Craig Newman on Vimeo. The Chicago Transit Authority is tearing down the Wells Street bridge, disrupting Brown and Purple Line service for at least a week. This is an unedited time lapse of the first 48 hours of construction as iron workers went about [...]
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Kane County, IL: Fox River Bridge Time Lapse
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013OMEGA provided construction engineering services for the Kane County Division of Transportation’s $25 million Fox River Bridge Construction from McLean Boulevard to IL 25 near South Elgin. This 18-month project included construction of a 5-span, steel plate girder main bridge; a combination steel truss and precast concrete pedestrian bridge and ramp; over two miles of [...]
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St. Louis, MO: New Mississippi River Bridge
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013Take a tour of the new Mississippi River Bridge from the man basket. See views from over 400 feet above the river and from the top of the Missouri tower of the project. The project is expected to be ready for traffic in 2014. The two sides are expected to connect around July of 2013. [...]
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Guest on The Infra Blog: Richard Harnish, Midwest High Speed Rail Association
Monday, January 28th, 2013Richard Harnish is the Executive Director of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association, a membership-based non-profit organization advocating for fast, frequent and dependable trains linking the entire Midwest. Harnish graduated from Elmhurst College in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in transportation management. After leaving Elmhurst, Harnish was a logistics manager at American President [...]
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Chicago, IL: Dearborn Street Protected Bike Lane
Friday, December 28th, 2012Dearborn Protected Bike Lane – Before and After from Active Trans on Vimeo.
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Chicago Infrastructure Trust: A Model For The Future?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012In it’s relatively short life span (Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced it March 2012), the Chicago Infrastructure Trust has garnered it’s fair share of skepticism and awe. Check out what experts, journalists, and Mayor Emanuel himself, have to say on the newly formed Chicago Infrastructure Trust. “Sometimes if you want something done right, you’ve got to do [...]
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Elmhurst, IL: Highway Work Installing Reflectors
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012This is a quick look at how a highway repair crew installs those reflectors in the pavement. The first truck has a grinder and vacuum. The second truck has a pair of guys who drop the reflectors into the holes. The last truck, the pick up, is for safety so nobody plows into the reflector [...]
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Great American Infrastructure: Chicago, IL: Willis (Sears) Tower
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012This is the fifteenth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
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Reducing Foreclosures and Environmental Impacts through Location-Efficient Neighborhood Design
Friday, June 10th, 2011NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
While the nation continues to grapple with a troubling housing market and a rash of mortgage defaults, new research has emerged drawing a direct link between “location efficiency”—a measure of the transportation costs in a given area—and mortgage foreclosure rates. The study shows that factors such as neighborhood compactness, access to public transit, and rates of vehicle ownership are key to predicting mortgage performance and should be taken more seriously by mortgage underwriters, policymakers, and real estate developers.
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