Or – Why Inspections are Fundamental to Asset Management Two engineering departments in the City of Honolulu have very different approaches to the same problem. The city does not have an inspection program for light poles, despite the fact that there are 51,000 street lights on the island. The city says it doesn’t have the […]
Tag Archives: roads
Little Pieces
Little pieces of road looking for some loving. #asphalt #paving #roads
A Changed World
Communities around North America are waking up to a changed world. Our expectation for continuous improvement of the systems that support our lifestyles, transportation choices and patterns of housing has been shaken. Budget cuts are forcing communities and governments to reconsider priorities; in Washington State a new user fee was introduced for users of recreation trails, to […]
The Future of Potholes
It’s around this time of year that the potholes start to open up again around the Kootenays and probably must of North America. These troublesome portals into the underworld appear most commonly either; at points of high stress in the road surface, or at points of structural weakness that are exploited by water. With the […]
Castlegar Dims the Streetlights
Castlegar, a rural City in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia (and our home) is getting smart street lights. “The City of Castlegar is pleased to be the first city in Canada to totally commit to a complete transformation of all of its streetlights to the Adaptive Street Light Management System and moving ahead with its strategy […]
Google Street View Now in the Kootenays
The Street View is only available on the Highways throughout the West Kootenays, but in larger centres such as Kelowna, Spokane, WA and Cranbrook, (as well as all the big cities), all streets have been photographed and input into the software.
Fredericton Roads and Streets Masterplan – 2009
Infrastructure masterplans are at the backboneof a community’s capital spending plan. While not addressing every possible outcome or required project, the process of considering a masterplan identifies many of the “big-ticket” items that are on the spending horizon for the community. Often these masterplans are written by consultants, for many reasons, political, staff availability, expertise, […]
SeeClickFix for Rossland
As the Engineer for the City of Rossland, I want to gather input from residents on non-emergency issues around the community. This can be difficult unless there is a forum for easily describing where the problem is. In comes SeeClickFix, a relative newcomer to the internet Google Maps mashup crowd, providing an excellent set of […]