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Control Point Morgan, located a mile and a half west of Chicago Union Station, is one of the busiest points on Metra's entire system, functioning as a crossover point for trains close to but outside of the congested maze of CUS. The signal bridge pictured here, being the westernmost set, is of Pennsylvania Railroad heritage and, up until a few years ago, still held original position lights. In this photo, however, the last Metras for the night are already gone, leaving CP Morgan dead until the morning.
A night shot of the mixmaster in Downtown Dallas as it continues to be reconstructed in this congested freeway. The mixmaster has been criticized as one of the top ten 'Worst Commuting Bottlenecks' in the nation by the AAA (American Automobile Association).
Singapore is a safe but boring place to visit. Enter Formula One racing. Every September, the heavily congested urban city roads are transformed into a 5km racetrack. The post-race concert is awesome too with Mariah Carey, Alan Lambert, Missy Elliot etc prancing on stage. No wonder they call Formula One a travelling Circus.
The Grand Trunk Western was known as the "Good Track" railroad, and the railroad proved it by the way they liked to run. Here's some proof. Train 437 screams through the busy city of Harvey, IL doing a good 50 per. GP9 4545 is leading just as the railroad gods intended, long hood forward, as the westbound is passing under the Illinois Central viaduct, and over the B&OCT's Chicago Heights sub. The Trunk never slowed down for congested city areas as other railroads would do. They flew through Griffith, Munster, Lansing, South Holland, Harvey, and Blue Island on their way to Elsdon yard in Chicago. This is a rescan of a shot I posted six years ago. I was on duty at Harvey tower, doing my job inspecting the train. Just happened to have my camera with me. Seems like that happened alot...
I rushed Joey to the vet's office after hearing him howl a couple of times and found him briefly panting under my car in the garage. I feared for the worst, thinking that he might have high blood pressure spikes or signs of a congestive heart failure. I had never seen him like that (with his mouth open as if gasping for air) and felt it was a medical emergency.
Thank goodness all was well, his blood pressure was actually lower than his previous visit in January. He also weighed at 5.62kg, slightly more than his last visit to the vet's.
This was the first time I went to the vet's and returned home using a Grab ride share (it's like Uber or Lyft). I was alone and feared it would be difficult to find empty parking space, so I decided not to drive.
Apologies if I haven't spent much time on Flickr lately. Our previous domestic help June isn't returning to work with us due to immigration reasons. We were supposed to receive a replacement maid last week but no thanks to the stupid, ongoing battle between the Malaysian and Indonesian human resources ministries, she wasn't allowed to fly to Malaysia pending the outcome of the issue. 😡
No, we are not the only family who's affected by the temporary ban on Indonesian maids.
NPR 5517 west is in the process of finishing up spotting the elevator in Fordville, while tying up the somewhat congested traffic in town. We parted ways with the COWLs at this point, quite happy with our success from the day. We had done well up until this point, having no rain at all for shooting. I only hope the next time I get to shoot these SD60F's that the zebra stripes will still be alive and well, but I genuinely have my doubts. From here it was off to the BNSF Devil's Lake Sub, with the first stop at Niagara.
NS 8099, the Southern Railway heritage unit, leads a Houston-bound manifest through Tower 26 on a hot August afternoon.
Although most trains headed for Englewood Yard will turn east here, UP has been running trains "the long way" to get to Englewood more often the last few years. The train will run south to Tower 30 on the Galveston Sub, then turn north and use the Strang Sub to approach Englewood from the south. This adds more than 10 miles to the journey, but with the Houston Terminal perennially congested sometimes creative routings win out.
MPBEW 20 (Manifest- Pine Bluff, AR to Englewood Yard [Houston, TX])
NS ES44AC #8099
NS AC44C6M #4342
UP SD70M #3788
Houston, TX
August 21st, 2023
This photo of a church on the grounds of UVA (University of Virginia) was taken while driving right in the heart of the University grounds. It no longer holds services but is available for weddings etc. I think I will teach a class: How to take pictures while driving. There will be different sections to the class like: How to take a photo while driving through congested downtown streets without causing an accident or running over random pedestrians and How to take a photo while driving on winding mountain roads with sheer drop offs and no guardrails and live to develop your photos. Also a class on Know your camera well enough to adjust settings without looking. Or how about: How to drive, take pictures and not annoy the guy riding up on your bumper? But let me ask you this, have you found the bird yet?
Ahh..the one week mark of my project 365. Only 51 weeks left now!
I saw this huge cloud formation after leaving the movies this evening...and to think, I almost didn't bring my camera..
Anyway, I looked it up and these clouds are referred to as cumulus congestive clouds. Say that 5 times fast...but I have tons of photos of these enormous formations that I will be putting up in the upcoming weeks/month; just have some post work to do!
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In the hills of Eastern Nebraska, the top of a grain elevator peaks over a grove of trees, as a towering cumulus cloud signals the beginnings of a possible brewing storm.
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The Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy is a former royal residence that was built in the 18th century. It is the largest royal residence in the world.
Constructed for the Bourbon kings of Naples, the Palace covers an area of about 235,000 m. The architect of this magnificent palace was Luigi Vanvitelli.
The whole architectural complex at Caserta was primarily designed to give the kingdom a new capital.
The King wanted a new royal court and administrative center for the kingdom, in a location protected from sea attack, and distant from the revolt-prone and congested city of Naples.
In 1997, the interior was replicated as Queen Amidala’s Palace of the planet Naboo in Star Wars I- The Phantom Menace. It was used as a location for four days after it had been closed to visitors.
In 2002, the same palace was used as Queen Jamillia’s palace in Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones.
The same palace was also used as Vatican City in the movie Mission: Impossible III.
"Oh Mister Blue Sky,
Please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?
Hey there Mister Blue,
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you..."
- Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.)
I thought I would post something vastly different from the regular stuff, and share a photo reflective of my own personal mood currently.
This photo is the latest from my personal "Psycheography" project, and was my tribute to welcome the Spring season. I have never been happier to see Winter conclude, particularly in the metaphorical sense. Ironically, this photo was captured on the very last day of Winter at Solstice Park in Seattle.
If you were in Seattle that day, you remember this day well. You were very likely out and about that day, soaking in the sunshine, capturing your own images, and happily accepting (or contributing to) the traffic congesting the scenic routes all around the city. It was just a gorgeous day to be outside, alive, and grateful.
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On Tokyo's Shinjuku metro line - the busiest and most congested line in the world. During the rush hour, additional staff are employed to push commuters onto the trains and squeeze them into the last remaining space.
Emma and I boarded in the evening when it's easier to enjoy the experience of these cool, spacious and efficient trains.
I took this on the way to the writer's conference. Not a neighborhood I spend much time in. Congested. No parking...
Welcome to Monday's "true" wildflowers. These are flowers that I've found from Banff to L.A. most in three national parks, but some just along the highway.
Today, I give you a hoverfly whose species is unknown because nobody's going to go through 6,000 species to figure it out. More about it in two paragraphs...
This hoverfly is on a Western Pearly Everlasting ((Anaphalis margaritacea) wildflower found on a slope of Mt. Rainier in Washington state.
There are around 110 species or Pearly Everlasting, with the vast majority being native to central and southern Asia, but there is one species native to North America that is fairly well known and popular in cultivation, namely the western pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea). What a twofer bargain for a Monday.
The name probably derives from the common practice of drying the flowers and stems for decorations through winter months. This plant was used extensively by Native Americans for a variety of medicinal purposes.
For Jan Magwire and the rest of you with aphids: Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects. Unlike ladybugs, you can't buy hoverflies in bulk through a nursery, so you'll have to plant plants that are attractive to hoverflies.
Photograhpically: This image didn't need vignetting since the background wasn't that "messy" or congested with other plants. Although dodging corners (which I perfected in high school) could have been used, shooting from "directly above," being close, fast, and wide-open seems to have done the job for me. The best way to get a vignette with many wildflowers is to shoot from above, but there aren't that many flowers that allow a top view and/or getting very close to the ground.
Happy Mother's Day for all who celebrate!
The local cherry blossoms finally bloomed after a late start this spring. I realized while zooming in on the wide-angle image on the computer screen that I was missing out on some telephoto opportunities.
Does anyone have a strong preference for wide angle vs. telephoto for your landscape photography? I tend to prefer wide angle, but as I live in a congested area, I don't always have the luxury of sweeping vistas. Let me know your thoughts!
Honestly, driving along the roads on the Isle of Skye can be quite congested! My wife and I sat in our car for approximately 5 minutes until the oncoming "traffic" moved over to let us pass!!
Great photo opportunity came to me!!
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Call it Grand Trunk Tuesday. The Good Track road doing what it liked to do, run like hell. It's a hazy late afternoon in Lansing, IL and the Trunk is adding to the haze with a little diesel exhaust as a GP9 and GP18 run long hood forward, about to cross Torrence Ave. Seems like no other railroad ran in ChcagoLand as fast as the Trunk did, doing 50 per even in congested Harvey. It was a joy to watch, and having back to back black high hoods was icing on the cake.
VIA 64 is seen passing CN 321, with the congested Turcot interchange in the background. The latter has steel beams in gondolas, a common commodity on this train.
This composite X-ray (blue)/radio (pink) image of the galaxy cluster Abell 400 shows radio jets immersed in a vast cloud of multimillion degree X-ray emitting gas that pervades the cluster. The jets emanate from the vicinity of two supermassive black holes (bright spots in the image). These black holes are in the dumbbell galaxy NGC 1128 (see optical image), which has produced the giant radio source, 3C 75.
The peculiar dumbbell structure of this galaxy is thought to be due to two large galaxies that are in the process of merging. Such mergers are common in the relatively congested environment of galaxy clusters. An alternative hypothesis is that the apparent structure is the result of a coincidence in time when the two galaxies are passing one another, like ships in the cosmic sea.
Careful analysis of the recent Chandra and radio data on 3C 75 indicates that the galaxies and their supermassive black holes are indeed bound together by their mutual gravity. By using the shape and direction of the radio jets, astronomers were able to determine the direction of the motion of the black holes. The swept-back appearance of the radio jets is produced by the rapid motion of the galaxy through the hot gas of the cluster, in much the same way that a motorcyclist's scarf is swept back while speeding down the road.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/AIfA/D.Hudson & T.Reiprich et al.; Radio: NRAO/VLA/NRL
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Another perspective of our congested central business district filled with skyscrapers.
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Conrail Shared Assets PN-13 brings an inbound 62V up the Waldo Running Track in Jersey City, NJ on March 4, 2020 with a pair of SD70ACes. While Path trains are a frequent sight at Journal Square, there is still some freight traffic that traverses through in order to run around their train or for headroom. The trash trains are frequent visitors to this section of track that was once part of the ex-Pennsylvania Passaic and Harsimus (P&H) Branch to Harsimus Yard in Jersey City, as the track is now home to a 4100 foot runaround track. The trash trains must run the power around their train in order to bring it to the trash facility at New Jersey Rail Carriers, located in Kearny, NJ. This runaround is more favorable than running around between CP West Croxton and CP1 on the Conrail Northern Branch, as the route is normally congested.
An hour plus earlier was a different story. Navigating congested streets from the street trackage at Chestnut down towards the boardwalk. Finding semi-illegal parking luckily a stones throw from the shot. A massive traffic jam created by the gates coming down and holding this part of town up during the Big Trees walking speed shove down Beach Street.
Santa Cruz is so cool.
Quiet residential neighbourhood? No, not at all! It is an avenue in the Strijp-S suburb. Still, no cars seem to congest its peaceful streets, used first and foremost by cyclists. Bikes are the Dutch, ecological means of transport.
Strijp-S used to be the sprawling industrial centre of Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Then Strijp-S has been redeveloped as a thriving complex with shops, cafés, restaurants, a concert hall and the world’s biggest skateboard park. The tower of St. Trudo church is seen in the background, under skies scattered with clouds.
Strijp-S is a suburban heaven so peaceful that it can serve as a model for the “Peace On Earth” saying, fitting for Boxing Day.
Cairo cityscape at sunset showing minarets, as seen from Al Azhar Park, Salah Salem St, El-Darb El-Ahmar, Cairo, Egypt
Trawbreaga Bay, Malin Head, Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland
The view from 'Knockmany Bends’ overlooking ‘Five Fingers Strand’ & the sand dunes of Lagg. This strand takes its unusual name from the five long black sea-stacks that can be seen on the north end of this rocky shore. The surrounding sand dunes are some of the highest in all of Europe! These dunes were formed around 5000 years ago and now have their own protected & unique ecosystem.
Each year many folk travel abroad to highly congested tourist traps in search of tropical waters & white sandy beaches. If they only realised what is already here in Ireland along our shores, then they may think twice before spending a small fortune when they easily visit areas like here for free & also have the entire beach to themselves.
Ok I admit we don’t exactly have the foreign heat & most times we get 4 seasons in one day! 😂 but it’s our variable weather which carves & shapes our stunning landscape & shorelines. Whilst wearing shorts or raincoats we must still be thankful for what we have around us 🙏
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This capture makes the marina look very "congested" but in fact its the "compression" effect of the tele lens used. This is a nice peaceful time of morning when most people are still in bed.
Good old days, although Catford still congested as heck! Good gap found considering I could've had a bunch people walking there at that exact moment
My mother’s window is our portal to her world, a world in lockdown at a assisted living facility. It’s here we have long talks over the phone, blow each other kisses and place our hands against the window to try and touch one another. The blinds are now down, her room dark as she battles Covid19 in a hospital.
At 94 years of age and suffering from congestive heart failure and COPD her prognosis was not good. Last Tuesday our family was told she was in respiratory failure and we would be allowed to see her, to say our goodbyes.
But, something happened...she was given convalescent plasma and Remdesivir....a miracle drug! My mother began to breathe better and the fever stopped.
I’m telling you our story to give you hope. All around my area, people are very ill and dying but my mother isn’t, not today and not from this virus. She’s recovering and will be going into rehab to help get her back to her window. It won’t be easy but she’s a strong willed fighter who intends to win.
The crew on this Louisville & Indiana MGI interchange train have paused for a moment on their journey to grab a soda from the local convenient store giving us an opportunity for a photo after doing battle with the congested area of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Even though the train doesn't run too fast, chasing this job can be a headache with numerous shopping areas and mulitudes of traffic lights.
Evenings at Peak Forest can get a bit congested.
Right to left :-
66725 Sunderland heads north on the 6E17 19:52 Peak Forest Cemex GBRF to Stourton Cemex GBRF. This train actually leaves Peak Forest around 20:25, but runs down from the Cemex Sidings in the foreground to the Long Sidings upper left from where it has just left.
On the inbound line an unidentified Freightliner 66 runs through on the 13:18 West Thurrock Sidings FHH to Tunstead Sdgs. Its destination the towers on the horizon.
Next in line sat in the Long Sidings is the 20:37 Peak Forest Cemex Sdgs which has been drawn down to the Long Sidings and waiting for 60017 which is sat on the fuel point, just beyond the bridge on the right. When moving this train had a few issues taking an hour between Chinley and Edale to be 67 minutes late. Passing or arrival at Earles was 139 minutes late and Grindleford 212 minutes late.
66428 sits on the front of a rake of loaded wagons. I can't see what this might work out with.
66788 takes part in loading operations rolling back and forth as and where the loaders require. This is to form the 6B10 23:45 Peak Forest Cemex to Bletchley Cemex. This would not leave before five more loaded trains would leave and three would come in.
66427 is the spare shunt loco.
An empty grain train departs out of Dunmore as the Final Spike Steam special patiently waits for it's turn into yard. Unfortunately for the tired and hot steam crew, they arrived at a congested Dunmore with multiple trains trying to work the yard, meaning it would end up being a late night for the crew.
CN has been messed up and congested on both sides of the Twin Ports all summer. A few derailments and a couple of heavy rain events have added to the chaos.
In the past week, CN has rerouted some trains over the BNSF from Noyes to Superior, like they 10-12 years ago.
Here a reroute off the Lakes Sub. has just made the turn onto the Hinckley Sub. as the distributed power units ride over the Nemadji River on the morning of July 17, 2018. With the train on the main, CN 5418 and 8810 are starting to shove hard on the train to get it up the hill towards Foxboro. This train was the first one I heard the BNSF take all the way to Chicago and ran as the FSUPEOL7 17S on its trip down to the Twin Cities.
You can see eroded riverbank that flooding last month left on the Nemadji. Too bad the flood waters didn't take out a few trees here at the former Soo Line bridge.
... imagine to be here, closing your eyes...
this is Milan but it has nothing to do with the most modern part of the city, this is the magic of Naviglio Grande....
Leonardo da Vinci arrived in Milan in 1482 and was later recruited by Ludovico Sforza also known as Ludovico il Moro. Sforza gave him the task to research a system that could make the navigation between Lake Como and Milan possible. He designed a system of levees that aimed to make the distance navigable by solving the problem of altitude differences between the two places. Some of Da Vinci's sketches can be seen by visitors in the Navigli Museum. Milan of today, congested by construction and traffic, was once a city where water played an important role, especially in the construction of its touristic symbol.
The construction of the Naviglio Grande begun in 1179 and in 1209 the Naviglio arrived to Milan. Since the first day of the construction the best engineers undertook the project and even today it is possible to admire the innovative system of dams conceived by Leonardo da Vinci at the end of 15th Century.
Once upon a time: a view of the Navigli, the navigable canals of MilanIt took only 35 years, from 1439 to 1475, to build 90 kilometres of canals on the Milan territory made navigable thanks to the existence of 25 valleys, a characteristic no other city has. The development of the system didn’t stop at this point. On the contrary, when Leonardo da Vinci begun working on the project in 1482, the Martesana was improved and he also started setting up a new system of canals that would make navigation from Valtellina to Milan possible.
It was 1482 when Leonardo da Vinci, as soon as he arrived in Milan, was assigned by Ludwig II il Moro with the task to study a system that would make the navigation from Lake Como to Milan possible. Leonardo, who already designed the system of the dams in order to solve the problem of height difference of the territory making the navigation possible didn’t miss the chance to draw some sketches that are preserved today in the Museum of Navigli.
Since then the Navigli were characterized by a continuous development particulary by the construction of new canals and dams. This is how the Navigli became a fundamental means of communication for the city of Milan.
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The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal on the outskirts of Tamworth in Staffordshire.
The story of the Birmingham and Fazeley begins in 1770, when the Birmingham Canal Company was seen as having a monopoly. At the time, the coalfields at Walsall did not have canal access, and a public meeting was held at Lichfield on 18 August, to discuss an independent link from Walsall to Fradley Junction on the Trent and Mersey Canal, passing through Lichfield. Opposition from local landowners resulted in the plan being shelved, but a further plan was proposed at a meeting held in Warwick in August 1781, for a canal to run from Wednesbury through Fazeley to Atherstone, which was the end of the Coventry Canal at the time. The plans were changed somewhat in October, but shareholders in the Birmingham Canal saw it as a serious threat.
Two bills were put before Parliament in 1782, one for the Birmingham and Fazeley, and a rival one from the Birmingham Canal for a branch from Wednesbury to Walsall. Both sides opposed the other's proposal, and both bills were defeated. The promoters then opened negotiations with other canal companies, to ensure that when the canal was built, it would be part of a larger network. In 1782, they obtained an agreement from the Oxford Canal Company that they would complete the route to the River Thames at Oxford, one from the Coventry Canal that they would extend their canal from Atherstone to Fazeley, and agreed that they would complete the Coventry Canal's route from Fazeley as far as Whittington, as the Coventry Canal company could not finance the whole route. The Trent and Mersey would finish that link by building the remainder of the route to Fradley Junction. A second bill was put before Parliament, and at the same time, the Birmingham Canal presented a scheme for a canal from Riders Green to Broadwaters, near Walsall, with eight branches, and a second canal from Newhall to Fazeley. The Birmingham and Fazeley was authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1784. The new company and the Birmingham Canal merged soon afterwards, becoming the awkwardly named Birmingham & Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Company.
John Smeaton was the engineer employed by the Birmingham and Fazeley, but work did not start immediately, as he was also responsible for the Riders Green to Broadwaters line, which was completed first. The project did not go smoothly, as there were disputes between James Bough, the superintendent of the canal company, and Pinkertons, who were the civil engineering contractors employed to carry out the work. The issue concerned the cement that the Pinkertons were using. Work on the Fazeley line began in April 1786, with Bough still acting as superintenent, and the Pinkertons responsible for the construction of the section between Minworth and Fazeley. In late 1786, George Pinkerton found out that the levels, which had been surveyed by Bough, were wrong. Samuel Bull, the engineer for the canal company, investigated and reported that Pinkerton was right. The Pinkertons started to work on the project from January 1787, even though the contracts were not signed until May. Bough made a series of allegations that Pinkertons' workmanship and the materials used were of poor quality.
The company stopped paying Pinkerton in late 1788, as the costs were exceeding the original estimates, and the contract was taken away from them in February 1789. There was then a financial dispute over money which had been paid to Pinkerton as "extras", but which the company then claimed were overpayments. Some £2,750 was at issue, and the case rumbled on for a decade, until a court case in 1801 gave him only £436 of the claim. Unhappy with the outcome, Pinkerton justified his position, but his remarks about John Houghton, the Company Clerk, were deemed to be libellous, for which he was fined and spent some time in prison.
The canal was completed in August 1789. The benefits of the co-operation with the other canal companies were that when all the links were completed in 1790, it immediately generated a great deal of freight traffic. This created problems, as the flights of locks at Aston and Farmer's Bridge became congested, and this became worse when the Warwick Canal built a junction onto the Digbeth Branch. The problem was not solved until 1844, when the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal to the south east and the Tame Valley Canal to the north west were opened. The name of the Birmingham & Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Company was changed to Birmingham Canal Navigations in 1794.
Lagg, Malin Head, Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland
The view from ‘Knockmany Bends’ overlooking ‘Five Fingers Strand’ & the sand dunes of Lagg. This strand takes it’s unusual name from the five long black sea-stacks that can be seen here on the centre part of this sandy beach. The surrounding sand dunes are officially the highest in all of Europe! These dunes were formed around 5000 years ago and now have their own protected & unique ecosystem.
Each summer many folk travel abroad to highly congested tourist traps in search of pacific coloured waters & white sandy beaches. If they only realised what is already here in Ireland along our Wild Atlantic Way, then they may think twice before spending thousands of pounds when they could visit areas such as here for free & have the entire beach to themselves. Now i'm no rocket scientist 👨🔬 but I know when something makes perfect sense 👍
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Before the completion of the fuel pipe line to Gatwick Airport the railway operated numerous aviation fuel trains to Salford Oil Terminal. Most from the Isle of Grain Refinery were routed via the Medway Valley line with reversals at Hoo Junction and Redhill thus avoiding the congested London suburban area. 33 209 is seen putting down the power as it passes through Strood with train 6Y89 the 18.20 Hoo Junction Yard to Salford Oil Terminal.
Hudson Yards Complex- If you think the roads in Manhattan are congested try looking at this construction site.
The PortMiami Tunnel project is a highly complex project built through a public-private partnership (PPP or P3) that includes the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of said project. It is a 35-year concession agreement between the Florida Department of Transportation (Owner) and MAT Concessionaire, LLC (Concessionaire). It took 55 months for design and was completed in August 2014 by Bouygues Civil Works Florida (BCWF).
Nearly 16,000 vehicles travel to and from the PortMiami (POM) through downtown streets each weekday. Truck traffic makes up 28% (or 4,480) of this number (Source: 2009 PB Americas Traffic Study). Existing truck and bus routes restrict the port’s ability to grow, drive up costs for port users and present safety hazards. They also congest and limit redevelopment of the northern portion of Miami’s Central Business District.
The benefits of the PortMiami Tunnel include:
Providing a direct connection from the PortMiami to highways via Watson Island to I-395
Keeping the PortMiami, the County’s second largest economic generator, competitive
Making downtown streets safer by reducing congestion on downtown streets
The PortMiami provides 176,000 jobs, $6.4 billion in wages and $17 billion in economic output.
(Source: 2007 Port of Miami Economic Impact Study).
Planning, Design and Construction
The POMT project is an integral component of a larger program incorporating operational improvements to SR-836 (from the existing toll station to the I-95 Interchange) and I-395. Multiple options for increasing port access were explored. Only the Watson Island tunnel has met all requirements and local, state and federal standards.
The Project will include:
Tunnel under Government Cut
Roadway work on Dodge and Watson Islands
MacArthur Causeway Bridge widening
A 43 foot diameter tunnel boring machine specifically constructed for the project will be used.
Finance
The POMT is a public-private partnership (PPP) designed to transfer the responsibility to design-build-finance-operate-and-maintain (“DBFOM”) the project to the private sector. It is a technically challenging project that attracted three bidding consortia comprised of several of the most technically sophisticated and financially-sound constructors and financiers in the world. Under the concession agreement, FDOT will make milestone payments to the concessionaire during the construction period, upon the achievement of contractual milestones.
Once the construction is completed, the department will then make availability payments to the concessionaire. These payments will be contingent upon actual lane availability and service quality. The tunnel will be returned to FDOT in first-class condition at the end of the contract in October 2044.
The total cost of design and construction of the tunnel is set at $668.5 million. The state has agreed to pay for 50 percent of the capital costs (design, construction) and all of the operations and maintenance, while the remaining 50 percent of the capital costs will be provided by Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami.
Before the calendar turns a new leaf over, before Facebook get flooded with messages, before the mobile networks get congested, let me take a quiet moment out to wish everyone a wonderful, happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
May you begin the new year with a joyful heart that gives you a clear mind to decide the right track for you to follow to achieve a bright and beautiful future.
The Grace of the Gannet, putting the breaks on and positioning itself to land on the congested rock face, these birds are such a pleasure to watch and photograph.
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