As a resort community, Revelstoke sees a lot of tourist traffic in the downtown, both pedestrians and vehicles. Additionally, as a community to over 7,500 residents, Revelstoke boasts one of the highest per capita rates of active transportation in Canada, with over 22% in the 2016 census showing walking or cycling as the main mode […]
Category Archives: Transportation
Highway One Problems & Solutions
Summer is time for road-trips and camping, Albertan’s spilling into BC to enjoy the Province’s natural beauty, families travelling to visit relatives, beach vacations – and unfortunately for many of these trips, the Trans-Canada Highway is a necessary part of the route. On twitter, I have several searches that I check before I head out […]
Infrastructure Inspections and Awareness
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 […]
62 Considerations for an Integrated Urban Design
As a civil engineer involved in municipal, development, and transportation; one of the most important concepts to remember is that of integrated urban design. Simplified, if just the traffic engineer was responsible for the design, roads might be large enough for the maximum projected traffic demand; if just the public works manager was responsible for […]
Welland Canal
The Welland Canal connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie up the Niagara Escarpment. One of Canada’s great Civil Engineering achievements. I love taking the kids to engineering sites when we’re on vacation!
Toronto Streetcar
Still one of my favourite urban transportation modes. Published via Pressgram
Wide, Heavy Load
Last night we supervised the transporting of a shaft from the Mica Dam upgrade through #Revelstoke and across one of our bridges, the Eastern Access Bridge, over the rail right of way. This truck and trailer loaded weighed about 90,000kg and required specialist engineering advice to ensure that the load did not damage the bridge.
Swales
Since moving to the interior of British Columbia back in 2007, I have had many discussions with engineering types about the benefits of the alternatives to the curb and gutter / catchbasin paradigm. Interestingly, even six years later there really isn’t that much good knowledge out there on the cost of installation and maintenance of […]