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INFRASTRUCTURES * USA - Union Pacific Building New Intermodal, Logistics Terminal
Joliet,ILL,USA -Transport Topics -4 Sept 2009: -- Union Pacific Corp. said its new Joliet (Ill.) Intermodal Terminal will support customer growth by boosting international and domestic container capacity and improving rail traffic efficiencies in the Chicago area, the nation’s largest rail center... Once it comes on line, customers from across UP’s network will benefit from Joliet’s annual capacity of 500,000 ocean-going containers... Union Pacific, which operates west of the Mississippi River, is the nation’s largest freight railroad by revenue... (Aerial photograph: Construction crews continue to grade the site of Union Pacific Railroad's 785-acres facility. The intermodal terminal is scheduled to open June 2010)* St. Louis bridge limited to 80,000 pounds
St. Louis,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by David Tanner -September 9, 2009: -- Trucks weighing more than 80,000 pounds are now prohibited from crossing the Interstate 270 bridge over the Mississippi River until further notice... Departments of Transportation offices in Illinois and Missouri announced the weight restriction, which took effect Monday, Sept. 8... The duration of the restriction is unknown according to MoDOT... MoDOT recently ended a lane restriction along I-70 at the Blanchette Bridge 5th Street ramp... (Photo from wikimedia.org/wikipedia: Miss R dam 27)
* TECHNO-NEWS - Solar panel roads to power our homes
Idaho,USA -Gizmag, by Jeff Salton -September 10, 2009: -- Idaho-based Solar Roadways founder Scott Brusaw, is excited that his company has a received a USD$100,000 U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) grant to develop further his prototype that turns roads in giant electricity-generating solar panels... Apart from providing energy to power our homes, street lighting and so on, the roads could contain thousands of embedded LEDs to provide better street signage and make driving safer... He also believes the solar panel roads could last up to three times longer than the current petroleum-based asphalt surface and even be heated in winter to discourage dangerous ice build ups... If adopted, Brusaw claims, solar roads would provide enough energy to replace to replace all centralized power stations, including coal and nuclear-powered electricity generation plants... (Image: Solar Roadways wants to replace petroleum-based asphalt road surfaces with energy-producing solar panels)Labels: infrastructures
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