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A Unique Bollard Design
The City of Lake Oswego has a well-deserved reputation for their nice park and trail system. At one of the City’s wastewater pump stations located along a city trail I came across these very unique...
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What Streets Have In Common With Water Reservoirs
Most streets and most water reservoirs need to be “coated”. Of course, the coatings are entirely different (asphalt as opposed to paint), but in both cases, those coatings need be applied with these...
View ArticleThe Value of Being Fieldsmart
It is an unfortunate fact that the complexity of today’s engineering world prevents many civil engineers from being closely involved in construction. Such experience offers a great education. As...
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ADA Lawsuit: The Public vs. the City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, a city where automobiles dominate and pedestrians are more often an afterthought, recently settled a class-action lawsuit that will require the City to dedicate considerable resources to...
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Art Plays in the Street
Engineers are not known for making streets interesting places. Neither are most graffiti artists – or street artists, as some of them prefer to be called. Maybe they should be. Whether these examples...
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Professional Pedestrian: Edward Payson Weston
Being a pedestrian was a profession in the early 1900s. Who knew? One of the more notable professional pedestrians of the era was Edward Payson Weston. Born in 1839, he made his living by long-distance...
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The Angle of Repose
One of the better references regarding basic hydraulics is a book published in 1943 – Audels Pumps, Hydraulics, Air Compressors: A Practical Treatise by Frank D. Graham. Here is an interesting graphics...
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The Perils of Pee
Most engineers are interested in the survivability of their designs and take every measure to foresee potential sources of failure. Some failures, however, are difficult to predict and prevent. Urine,...
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Fun and Function on a Street Corner in Germany
European transportation planners have a somewhat different view on the extent pedestrians should interact with traffic controls. Here is a video from Germany demonstrating how a Pong game has been...
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Protected Intersections for Bicyclists
Bike paths are only part of the solution to make urban travel by bicycle safer. They tend to disappear into confusion at intersections, especially in the U.S. where planning and design has...
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