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Engineers with Tighe & Bond used a drone and time-lapse photography to capture the removal of the Division Street bridge this month. Take a look at the gear used to

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The Michigan Department of transportation just got big recognition for something they’re doing in the state that the American Society of civil engineers thinks is so great they put on their list of 2021 Infrastructure Gamechangers. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has been using a remote-piloted boat called sonar Emily which stands for, EMergency Integrated LanYard, to check around bridge foundations to make sure there’s not something called “scour“ happening around th...

The Michigan Department of transportation just got big recognition for something they’re doing in the state that the American Society of civil engineers thinks is so great they put on their list of 2021 Infrastructure Gamechangers. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has been using a remote-piloted boat called sonar Emily which stands for, EMergency Integrated LanYard, to check around bridge foundations to make sure there’s not something called “scour“ happening around th...

Congress is significantly failing to invest in our transportation infrastructure around the country. weve had bridge failures out west highway and port and rail challenges for years but this tragedy helps focus us on amtrak which is a key piece of our national rail infrastructure and the northeast corridor which is the busiest and most heavily used. we have a tunnel that we used to get to and from a baltimore every day that was built in the 1870s. weve got turns and bridges and pinch points that...

Drivers went into the water. >> oh, tragically and sadly i have to disagree with you. we have had nearly 600 bridge failures since 1989. we have seen what happened to the i-35w, which is one of 8,000 bridges in our nation that is not only structurally deficient, which is worse than functionally obsolete, but fracture critical, meaning they could go down at a moments notice, just like this. our politicians turn their back on this and dont see infrastructure as a high priority. and the american pu...

You just, you go with it. >> reporter: now, he went with it, all right, and he got his wife out safely as well and waited those 90 minutes for the rescuers. you can see a steel girder. thats one of the top girders that was also hit by this high-profile vehicle, this semi truck, and it is damaged all the way to the right-hand side. so what we think happened was the semi truck was pushed all the way over to the right-hand side of this bridge, the far right lane because there was another car in the...

The pawtuxet river which crested yesterday 11 feet above flood stage. the effects are still being felt. this homeowner dragging everything out of his home that he can to try to save what he can after these devastating floods. now throughout the region still a multitude of problems. transportation is one of them. in fact, today rhode islands governor said that i-95 is looking better. the national guard has brought in some giant pumps to get the water off of the roadways and the hope is that that ...