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NEW STORY // Sara Nelson Warns She Can Kill Any Transit Project She Wants https://lnkd.in/gvzuNXq4 Since 2021, business groups in North Seattle have been pushing to get the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to reconsider transit upgrades to the Route 40, which connects South Lake Union, Fremont, Ballard, Crown Hill, and Northgate. The project includes street improvements intended to increase safety, along...

🚛 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Dennis Eagle has been chosen to supply 151 new state-of-the-art RCVs to Birmingham City Council. Starting in March 2025, this cutting-edge fleet will mark a new era for modernising the council’s waste management operations, which will help deliver improved services to residents across the city 🏘️ ♻️. This is a proud moment for all involved and a significant step forward for Birmingham! 👏 Read the full story for more details: https://lnkd.in/dmy_7f59 #DennisEagle #WasteManagement #Birmingham #NewFleet

This is a significant investment as we start the implementation phase of the waste transformation programme. The new fleet will assist in the move from weekly to fortnightly residual waste collections, allows us to introduce a weekly food waste service and enhance the dry mixed recycling scheme. The first phase will see these changes being introduced to the 340,000 kerbside properties across the city, before we move into the modernisation programme for the 130,000 multiple occupancy properties. #birminghamcitycouncil

We are in Salt Lake County today to celebrate the Federal Transit Administration's award of $62.8 million for Utah Transit Authority's Midvalley Express BRT project! With this grant, UTA will construct a 7-mile Bus Rapid Transit route built by US-workers with US-materials and operate the service with buses made-in-the-USA. The crosstown route features 15-minute service with connections to Salt Lake Community College and the fast-growing regions of West Valley City and Taylorsville. The project's connectivity is highlighted by intermodal transfers to commuter rail and two light rail lines. The BRT line will prepare the Salt Lake City region for the 2034 Winter Olympics by providing a connection to the Maverik Center, a planned venue for the games. Congratulations to UTA and their partner cities for unlocking a new era of transportation in the community. #UtahTransit #WinterOlympics #BRT

Agents this past week began riding the METRO C Line and METRO D Line between downtown Minneapolis and the Brooklyn Center Transit Center, a first step toward expanding their onboard presence to bus rapid transit lines. Close to 60 TRIP Agents are now working on transit; as the program grows, they will spend more time on BRT lines. Learn more about our public safety initiatives here https://lnkd.in/gNRpAKi6

Whilst we didn’t win, I’m proud to be part of an organisation that backs this kind of initiative. We all know LANTRA training only gives operatives the bare bones of knowledge and doesn’t guarantee they have any real practical experience. Over the last two years at Highway Traffic Management Ltd we’ve developed a comprehensive competancy assessment programme which all trainees go through covering over 180 criteria, including skills, knowledge and behaviours, stuff we expect everyone to magically know, but rarely teach, including how to load a van correctly, how to complete paperwork, what to do if there’s an incident and how to give or receive a briefing. Why have we done this? We want to have high quality competent and reliable operatives who have good knowledge and therefore the confidence to run sites whilst managing and supporting other staff. We have some great examples of this working with operatives who joined with no experience now teaching others. This is what quality and a conscientious TM company looks like. #htmltd #quality #trafficmanagement

How exactly is MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) going to build all these new stations when they have already had to cannibalize the budgets of other #transit projects, like the Campbellton Road and Clifton Corridor light rail proposals, to pay for the Eastside Atlanta BeltLine streetcar scheme? If the Beltline streetcar moves forward, there is no way that these infill stations are built in the City of Atlanta in our lifetimes. Just to be clear, the infill stations make sense to me. The $100-million-plus-per-mile streetcar no longer does, given the Beltline’s importance as a corridor for those who are #walking or riding #bikes and other #micromobility. https://lnkd.in/e5JTDDGS

It’s great to see the progress in Greenwood, IN where Meridian is constructing a 125-door truck terminal and maintenance building on a 43-acre site for Scannell Properties. #realestate #industrialrealestate #newconstruction #buildtosuit #industrialconstruction #industrialdevelopment #industrialrealestate #indianarealestate

Westbound near Whitehall MT The roads are slick.

The clocks going back mean darker evenings, but one positive of this is that I get even more chances to marvel at the illuminated road studs that coordinate with the traffic signals to provide lane guidance at two trunk road junctions to the south of Edinburgh. Read more about this innovation from 2021 by BEAR Scotland, Amey and Clearview Intelligence here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e7R8RkH4 (Clearview Intelligence) #roadsafety #trafficengineering