infrastructure

As I said somewhere else on this forum, I once imagined myself as a civil engineer, and some of that fascination with that field lives on inside me. Hence, this thread.



more here:   https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53947440

Roundabouts are pretty recent in my province. 10-12 years ago, you could easily drive a year without crossing one. Now they’re everywhere. But our engineers don’t really know what they’re doing. I’ve drove through Europe (even in the UK) and they know their shit with roundabouts.

We haven't got enough, but there's one at the center of town nobody knows how to navigate. You'd think it were as unusual as right-hand cars...

Speaking of roundabouts....

i still can't figure out the double roundabouts in England.
i think roundabouts are starting to pick up in popularity in the states.  There were a few recently put up in the metro areas outside of Portland and my friend driving up to it for the first time panicked and drove through the middle.

Speaking of roundabouts....

Is this real? The roundabout bridge doesn’t seem to make sense


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It's real, but not a true roundabout when you look closely. 

More pics: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_la_lagune_Garz%C3%B3n

A bridge designed to slow down traffic.
I think a speed sign is more cost effective 

Now this is what I wanna see!   💖🐉

ohmyfuckinggodwhat???   https://www.propublica.org/article/storm-drains-keep-swallowing-people-during-floods

There’s no official count of how many Americans get pulled into storm drains, pipes or culverts during flood events, but ProPublica identified 35 such cases since 2015 using news accounts and court records. Twenty-one of those people died; nearly half of those lost were children. Thirteen of the deaths happened in the past three years alone. The numbers are likely an undercount, since reports of flood deaths often don’t give details other than the fact that someone was swept away.

Despite records of horrific cases that span the country and stretch back decades — and the scientific consensus that climate change will only worsen flooding — federal, state and local government agencies have failed to take simple steps to prevent such tragedies from happening, ProPublica found, after more than a dozen interviews with government officials, engineers and weather experts, as well as a review of documents including death investigations, government meeting minutes and emails, and academic papers. Officials are not surveying the nation’s aging stormwater drainage systems, which are being taxed beyond capacity by record downpours, to flag openings that could pose a hazard and install grates to prevent people from being sucked in.

Bike lanes have been a bigger issue here than perhaps they should've been, but progress is being made.   https://www.bridgedetroit.com/how-do-detroiters-really-feel-about-bike-lanes/