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One day a decade ago, when Mark Pittman was a student at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, he got caught in a snarl of traffic caused by a broken traffic light. The...
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One day a decade ago, when Mark Pittman was a student at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, he got caught in a snarl of traffic caused by a broken traffic light. The line was barely budging, and...
There’s a discreet charm to drawbridges, and Florida is the perfect place to experience it. The state boasts 50 drawbridges along the Intracoastal Waterway alone, including the picturesque Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine, which has served locals and visitors...
Like many places in the United States, the town of Perry, Iowa, started out almost as an accident. In 1849, a family from Delaware and another from Rhode Island parked their ox caravan in the area and decided that this...
This article is the first in our new Engineering Wonders of The World series. The world’s highest railway bridge is in a rugged, mountainous area of northern India – and it is a sight to behold. Hovering 1,170 feet above...
As a civil engineer with the Colorado Department of Transportation, John Kronholm keeps his ear close to ground. Or nature, to be precise. Kronholm is the resident engineer for Eagle and Lake counties, stationed high in the Colorado mountains in...
American infrastructure has been the envy of the world. Works such as the Erie Canal, the New York City Subway and the Interstate Highway System transformed the shape of the land, the economy and the way hundreds of millions of...
I love my adopted City of London. English poet John Davidson described it far better than I can in the final verse of his poem ‘London’, written over 125 years ago: The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,The million-peopled lanes and...
Commuting is a fact of life for many metropolitan areas, but very few accommodate anywhere near the 1 million commuters that crowd into Manhattan each day. To maneuver around highways, waterways, and other potential obstructions, New York City’s commuters...
