Bucher Municipal: Soaring high to deliver your best street sweeping solution
Bottom line, you need the best street sweeper for your street sweeping program. Whether you are a small municipality, regional airport or contractor buying your first street sweeper or if you are a large city, airport or conglomerate buying your … More from our cover sponsor →
Stertil-Koni research reveals 10 top tips to raise vehicle lift safety
Article provided by Stertil-Koni Following an in-depth review of municipal bus and truck maintenance facilities across North America, combined with heightened service demands resulting from the increased severity of weather events over the past decade, heavy-duty vehicle lift leader Stertil-Koni … Continue reading →
Sound Transit slashes millions of dollars by efficiently managing, sharing vehicles
By ED SMITH Seattle’s Sound Transit has slashed 115 vehicles from its non-revenue fleet because of process optimization using automated vehicle sharing and fleet management technology. The reductions are part of the transit agency’s initiative to operate its fleet and … Continue reading →
Cities tap into their presidential ties
Start humming “Hail to the Chief” when you think of these cities: West Branch, Iowa; Abilene, Kan.; Little Rock, Ark.; Hoffman Estates, Ill.; Hyde Park, N.Y.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and more, for these are home to presidential libraries, … Continue reading →
Ensuring donation transparency
Donations provide an often unexpected boost to municipal projects. While donations are largely positive, they can draw concerns from constituents of conflicts of interest, especially if being put toward projects that require bids. When the source of the donation is … Continue reading →
Ilion embraces little changes to realize big savings
The village of Ilion, N.Y., has received a $100,000 grant through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Clean Energy Community Program to bring sustainable practices to the community. The federally funded program is designed to encourage communities … Continue reading →
ODOT practices benefit pollinators
Pollinators, particularly the at-risk monarch butterfly species, play a critical role in our ecosystem. But what happens when infrastructure gets in the way? Sometimes the results can be detrimental for life that depends on biodiversity. Monarchs cannot survive without milkweed; … Continue reading →
Researchers gauge economic impact of immigrants
The topic of immigration in the United States has been center stage for the last two years with talks of closing our borders and revamping our immigration policies. But despite the negative rhetoric, studies have shown that immigrants to the … Continue reading →
Don’t jump: Communities learn that bridge fencing saves lives
When the Eighth Street Bridge opened for traffic on Nov. 17, 1913, in Allentown, Pa., it was the longest and highest concrete bridge in the world. At 2,650 feet in length, 45 feet in width and 138 feet high, the … Continue reading →
When law enforcement combats the unseen
Imagine being face-to-face with someone who could help and set you free away from this life you were forced into. Now imagine that person overlooking all the clues and then being taken away from the doorway to freedom, all because … Continue reading →
Fighting snow one storm at a time: Fort Collins’ snow removal program
Keeping the roads clear for the approximately 170,000 people living in Fort Collins, Colo., is no easy task with an annual snowfall of 50 inches a year and 1,100 lane miles to plow. While the city typically has quite a … Continue reading →
Paving the way to success by rocking the boat
When Palo Alto, Calif., City Manager Ed Shikada was fired from his first job as a hotel dishwasher on the graveyard shift , he learned a valuable lesson. “I was graduating from high school, and after a month on the … Continue reading →
Lewiston, Maine
The city seal of Lewiston, Maine, is packed with imagery reflecting the “working spirit” of the state’s second largest municipality. The round seal features a beehive, railway and one of the town’s original riverside mills. Along the right side of … Continue reading →
Parking meters drive downtown business
We’ve all been there: heading downtown for an afternoon of shopping or an evening of entertainment quickly turns into a headache — and maybe a disagreement in the car — over parking, or lack thereof. A particularly unique problem for … Continue reading →
World’s largest truck stop Walcott, Iowa
The place is big — really big. The main building of the Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, encompasses more square footage than a pair of football fields. The complex includes eight restaurants; a convenience store; gift shop; 30,000-square-foot “Super … Continue reading →
U.S. Department of Transportation makes huge investment in Idaho
When staff members of the Idaho Transportation Department applied to receive $90.2 million dollars from the Infrastructure For Rebuilding America program to expand a 2.8-mile section of the I-84 corridor just west of Boise, Idaho, they never expected the U.S. … Continue reading →
Innovative sewer cleaning bridges the Atlantic
Revolutionary technology in the sewer cleaning industry is crossing the pond after the 2017 acquisition of Premier Oilfield Equipment by KAISER AG, a company based in Liechtenstein. Those who attended WWETT 2018 were able to preview this sharing of experience … Continue reading →
Dig with peace of mind
Networks of hidden, buried utility lines can turn projects that involve any level of excavation into nightmares. Hitting one of those lines can prove not only costly, but also hazardous for both workers and members of the public. For this … Continue reading →
To the future of transportation
Americans have always been inventive when it comes to our transportation, dreaming of everything from self-driving cars with rotating seats, which would allow a family of four to play Monopoly as the car drove, to the much longed for flying … Continue reading →
