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Javid posted:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/19/southbound-i-75-closed-after-major-bridge-collapse/22031819/ It already was replaced. They were doing demo work on the old section, apparently. I've worked with Kokosing on 75 and know some of their excavators. This is crazy. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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Semi-related but I'm sure there's a few engineers lurking/reading this thread that would like to know: Google Earth Pro is now free.
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Feb 5, 2015 18:01
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Google Hive Cars looking good.
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Anyone else taking the PE this Friday? I'm burnt out on studying and kinda just want this poo poo to be over. I'm so hosed if I get some of the harder transportation questions in the morning. I know gently caress all about it still.
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Cichlidae posted:If it's your first time taking it, don't sweat it It is my first time, yeah. I'm mostly worrying over nothing. Picked the geotech afternoon session since that's my job and I think the only thing I'm really stumbling on still is some structural poo poo (anything related to inertia), random transportation poo poo I can't find info anywhere (vertical clearance between something and a vertical curve to name one) and some of the crazier foundation problems which I'm reviewing right now.
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Apr 16, 2015 17:41
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Chances are you'll pass, and most people I know who passed on their first try said it was a lot easier than they expected. If you've been prepping with something like Six Minute Solutions and/or still have your old college texts and notebooks, you should be in great shape.
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Cichlidae posted:If it's your first time taking it, don't sweat it Bumping this quote from last month. I passed! I genuinely thought it could go either way when I left the exam but I'm so happy I don't have to do that poo poo again (until I start working for the FS/PS next year).
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May 28, 2015 22:13
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Not directly traffic engineering but I'm working on the deep rock tunnel connector in Indiana.  280' underground and about 150' under top of bedrock. It's awesome.
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Aug 5, 2015 23:18
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Kakairo posted:What is the tunnel for? Obviously not a subway in Indy. Water/sewage? Bingo. It'll handle all sewer overflow so it doesn't get dumped in the rivers anymore.
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Aug 6, 2015 17:00
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:So the city I work for (Tumwater, WA) recently hired somebody to come do locates for a new fiber optic line they're laying down. Of all the symbols they could have used... That's hilarious. Don't they color code utilities? White in Ohio generally means you're drilling/boring on that location.
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Aug 13, 2015 13:10
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Cichlidae posted:I just got back from Costa Rica, and I got a much more extensive taste of their road network. If you were in Costa Rica doing anything other than drinking Imperial and hiking volcanoes you hosed up.
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drunkill posted:Why not Yeild signs? Then it works as a roundabout. Do you have Yeild signs in the usa? We do  (I hate sub-contractors. They did this SIX TIMES)
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So in about a week or so I'll be starting a new job as a city civil engineer! I'll be helping with traffic a little bit but my focus will be on managing the ongoing construction projects and improve some of the things they're trying to do now. I can't tell you how happy I am. The position kinda popped out of nowhere and was thrown my way and the whole process of "hey there's to job" to "here's an offer" was like 4 days and gently caress traveling out of state for months at a time ever again!
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Restraint Key posted:What would you do to fix it? Everything I come up with ends with me saying "those loving train tracks".
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Sep 17, 2015 22:40
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Varance posted:This. Even automated transit buses (not rail, buses) are a pipe dream without vastly improved infrastructure and transportation funding (which we've been slacking on for 50 years). Any day now* I'm working for a city new as their civil engineer and it's nice being on the side of construction. Pretty excited about all the poo poo I'll be doing now. *once enough bridges collapse
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Cichlidae posted:It's just crazy enough to work! Reminds me of an interchange someone proposed waaaaay back in the thread that looked like a giant toilet bowl - all vehicles entered on the outside, spun around counterclockwise, and then exited in the middle. For all the crazy buildings being built in Dubai, it saddens me that the roads are super boring and don't have any crazy poo poo.
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Oct 1, 2015 12:21
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Varance posted:gently caress it, let's just do both! This triggers me.
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I'm in Ohio so concrete roads are pretty bad to have. I'm in the process of starting the prep work with the city engineer to redo pretty much our entire street program / materials specifications and a ton of other poo poo. Turns out when a city doesn't really have a testing budget contractors get away with a ton of dumb poo poo. I'm hopefully going to fix that. Also, filling applications for state and federal funds is ridiculous.
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That's a waste of space and I'm super jealous. I'm a month in into the new job and I'm starting to actually get an idea of our road infrastructure. Turns out back God knows when throwing asphalt right on soil was cool. Who the gently caress needs that aggregate base?
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Oct 24, 2015 03:30
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I'm so glad the worst I have to deal with is the crazy lady who insists her neighbors are trying to drown her with stormwater.
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Oct 25, 2015 01:25
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I just ride down the middle of both lanes and prevents anyone from using the still available lane 
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Oct 28, 2015 01:07
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We had some a big rear end rain event last year that flooded a new development's detention basin and closed some roads and generally got water everywhere. It was a mess and now there's public pushback to stop the development from expanding because it obviously is causing floods and it's badly designed and everything is terrible. Trying to explain what a 1000 year flood is to the public is actually hard 4.5 inches in 2 hours 
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Oct 29, 2015 16:41
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Baronjutter posted:To be fair thanks to climate change (which is in a large way influenced by the car-centric built form we've created) a lot of these 1000 year rainstorms are going to become 100 year rainstorms and so on. It's a nice cycle we got going on. I can't imagine how Miami/Florida is handling their impending death.
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scandoslav posted:Couple of days ago some dude flipped his car and managed to launch Wear your seat belts, everyone. Also, I'm sure sure physics work that way.
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Nov 1, 2015 23:52
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Railroad is stalling on giving us a confirmation of when they're going to close one of their crossings which is on the main road into the city and I'm suppose to let everyone know a week in advance. That was yesterday and I'm still waiting on a god damned detour plan (that they're also supposed to provide) and god this is going to be such a clusterfuck next week is going to suuuuuuxk.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:55
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Baronjutter posted:Don't block the box don't block the box don't block the box gently caress you gently caress you. Drive in Puerto Rico for a week. You will learn patience or end in jail.
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Devor posted:Because every time the local engineer goes to fix it, he realizes he would have to coordinate with the railroad and he says "gently caress THAT" and moves on to an easier project. I just "finished" a railroad crossing resurfacing as part of a bikeway path connector project. The railroad was a nightmare to work with. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Kaal posted:Alternatively: Close the intersection to rail traffic until they can find time to make the intersection functional and safe.  I can't imagine how much trouble we would get pulling a stunt like this.
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Varance posted:This is something you figure out very early on. The employee stereotypes are also dead on. My city has a watch group (read: 1 crazy lady) that has a website where she reports on how we're being bought up by Mexican Cartels. She shows up to every single council meeting to speak about how the city manager is a big loving idiot (CM is present for all of these).
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Dec 31, 2015 06:30
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I must be blind because they look the same but then again I'm not a fonts guy. That said, I'm going to sneak into our city standards that signs should be in comic sans.
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Cichlidae posted:Google's removing traffic counts and parcel data from Google Earth Pro. That's a real shame; it was pretty useful. Of course, given the amount of traffic data they collect, perhaps Google's working on a traffic count repository, including turning counts, that they could sell to interested parties. Who knows! This is going to mess me up. I used that all the loving time.
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Jan 30, 2016 21:51
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I loving love bridges. I also loving hope I never have to actually design or deal with one.
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Our next project is opening bids tomorrow at 10am. We have a 72 hour from bid opening cutoff for questions regarding the plans and poo poo. I have had more calls about the project in the last hour than in the previous 2.5 half weeks we advertised it. Stop leaving poo poo for the last day, estimators 
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smackfu posted:Hawaii traffic engineering weirdness... at least from an East coast perspective. That's concrete cross-stitching / dowel bar retrofits. I actually had a lunch and learn about them a month or so ago. They're just tying the slabs / repairing cracks.  You can also drill / drive the dowels diagonally to reduce how much you're cutting but you use longer dowels for that.
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Mar 29, 2016 15:06
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Clear noise walls look pretty awesome. Which means Ohio will never use them.
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Mar 31, 2016 14:03
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Please post here because that sounds hilariously bad.
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Jun 19, 2016 00:48
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Honestly this seems like an excellent opportunity to design a hosed up mega high speed highway roundabout.
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One of the paving projects I had this year had a water main break two days after the surface course went down
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Looks more of a truck turnaround?
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Deteriorata posted:Or a "parking lot" if you live in South Philly. What the god drat gently caress
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