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ADA Presentation – Design, Construction and Maintenance of Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility in the Public Right-of-Way

Published: February 9, 2016

Presenter: Jason Giard, PE – Operations Engineer – FHWA Idaho Division

Duration: 90 Minutes (The link takes about 2 minutes to load)

Intended Audience: Planners, Engineers, Consultants, Contractors, ADA Practitioners, Disability Professionals, Civil Rights Specialist, and City, County or Highway Jurisdictions. (more…)

DRAFT ITIP Comment Period

The comment period started Friday, July 1. It lasts through Saturday, July 30.

The draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) lists proposed projects for the next five years, and includes programmed improvements to highways, bicycle routes, pedestrian projects, safety projects, bridges and public transportation. The draft ITIP can be viewed at:

www.itd.idaho.gov/itip/draft.htm.

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Turner Road Penstock Bridge is Complete

The Local Highway Technical Assistance Council administered this project.

Project Description: The project is located on Turner Road, a farm to market road approximately 0.2 miles west of Grace, Idaho. The Turner Road Penstock Bridge carries Turner Road over eleven foot diameter wooden penstock enclosed pipe that feeds a PacifiCorp owned power generation plant. The penstock is four and one half miles long beginning at the Grace Dam Complex on the Bear River and ending at the Grace Power Plant.

This project consisted of reconstructing Turner Road Penstock Bridge with geosynthetic reinforced soil integrated bridge system (GRS-IBS) technology.

Status: The project is substantially complete. The bridge was opened to the public on June 1, 2016.

 

 

Equipment Maintenance

Today most equipment requires the use of a spark arrestor. A spark arrestor is a mechanical device that traps or destroys hot exhaust particles that have been released from an internal combustion engine. (more…)