Puget Sound Public Interest Transportation Forum: Seattle RTA Sound Transit light rail commuter rail bus monorail transit plan. Despite growth, Seattle's light rail ridership has not caught up to the average daily riders forecast of 32,500 that Sound Transit provided to the Federal Government as the goal to be reached by 2011. Response to the Sound Transit Vice Chairwoman: Sound Transit is slowly building passenger light rail lines where buses provide quite adequate service already. At the same time, neither buses nor trains reduce traffic congestion. High Cost of Seattle-Area Transit Needs to be Understood and Reduced Before Additional Taxes are Authorized. Seattle and Portland regional transit operating costs -- adjusted for size of service area, performance, and regional cost of living -- are remarkably equivalent.
The Sounder North train is illegal, because costs per passenger-mile for Sounder North far exceed those for the express bus service operating in the same corridor. U.S. Archive of older stories: Try out Central Link light rail now ... seats are still plentiful. Viewings since 1996: Jump to Top of Page. Pacific Maritime Magazine Online.
Structural Engineering Magazine, Tradeshow: Precast Concrete – A Unique Application. As most structural engineers will attest, precast concrete has many uses. Most times it is utilized in the pristine environment of permanent construction. However, during construction of Pier 3 for the new Sikorsky Bridge in Stratford, Connecticut, precast concrete took on a most unusual form - a "no frills" temporary cofferdam in the Housatonic River. In designing and building this cofferdam, many challenges were faced by Balfour Beatty Construction, the general contractor on the project, and GeoDesign, Inc, the temporary cofferdam designer for Balfour Beatty.
The original Sikorsky Bridge, constructed in the 1930s, was a four-lane multi-span steel plate girder structure with a steel open-grid deck that carried the Merritt Parkway (Connecticut Route 15) over the Housatonic River near the Sikorsky Aircraft headquarters. Pier 3 is located in the navigable, middle portion of the Housatonic River. Figure 1: Typical Section Showing Pier, Precast Bathtub. Figure 2: Precast Bathtub Plan View.
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