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Generating capacity: 3.2 MW
Number of units: 1
In-service date: 1926
Dam height: 32 feet
About: Located on the North Branch Contoocook River. Jackman is fed by the Franklin Pierce reservoir, which was created by the hydro’s dam and surrounding earthen dikes.
Photo credit: Bob Gundersen
Northern Electrics 319 363 and 319 362 rest side by side by a Northern Class 142 and a pair of EMT Class 158s on a Norwich service.
This was taken in Peshastin to show that not only is the American Infrastructure outdated, but considering that there was a major wreck here in the last century, and now it's also hailing oil trains, I figured I'd better document it.
USACE is building a waste water treatment facility at Multi-National Base Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. The project will be finished by Dec. 2012. (USACE Photo by Karla Marshall)
AFRICA: Wanted: Greener Cities
CAPE TOWN, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) - In Africa, where urbanisation will be one of the major developments over the next few decades, it will be key for cities to figure out how to handle rapid urban expansion and much-needed economic growth, while creating more environmentally-friendly cities and reducing their carbon footprint at the same time.
Lakeside town of Aspern
Aspern Urban Lakeside (urban development project)
Logo of Aspern - Vienna's Urban Lakeside
Aspern Urban Lakeside (Vienna)
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Basic Information
Bundesland (Federal state) Wien (W)
Judicial district of Donau City
District of Vienna 22. District: Donau City (KG Aspern)
♁ coordinates 48 ° 13 '33 "N, 16 ° 30' 13" O coordinates: 48 ° 13 '33 "N, 16 ° 30' 13" E | |
Height of 157 m above sea level.
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View from the north to the urban development area Aspern Urban Lakeside, 2012
Source: STAT: Gazetteer; BEV: GEONAM; ViennaGIS
The Aspern Urban Lakeside (officially also Aspern Urban Lakeside, project name: Aspern - Vienna's Urban Lakeside) is a part of town under construction in the 22nd district of Vienna Danube city and one of the largest urban development projects in Europe of the 2010s. Over a period of around 20 years a new district should arise, in which over 20,000 people are supposed to work and to live. The first of three development stages focuses until around 2017 to the south of the part of the city.
Location
Aspern Urban Lakeside with lake, 2012
The planned seaside town is located about 7 kilometers east of the city center, on the other bank of the Danube, already on the verge of March field (gravel and stone plain in Lower Austria bordering Vienna).
The area is bounded as follows:
In the north of the Marchegger Eastern Railway, forming since 1870 the (currently operated hourly) connection between Vienna and Bratislava and long has been used by the legendary Orient Express. The here layed out traffic station Vienna Aspern Nord offers since October 2013 U-Bahn (U2) underground traffic to the center of Vienna and from 2017 S-Bahn ÖBB (line S80) suburban traffic to Vienna's main train station as well as regional trains.
To the east beyond the Josefine Hawelka pathway or the Cassinonestraße adjoin settlements of the since 1938 belonging to Vienna outskirts village of Essling.
In the south adjoins to the site an extensive factory premises of General Motors Austria, which lies at the Groß-Enzersdorfer Road (bus number 26A), connecting Aspern and Essling.
In the West adjoins beyond the Johann Kutschera alley the belonging to Aspern suburban settlement to the area.
Positions of neighboring districts:
Hirschstetten, Breitenlee, Lackenjöchl
Neuessling
Outskirts settlement, neighboring communities, Essling, Aspern
History
The area northeast of the historic village of Aspern in March field was named after a man-made lake in the center of the development area.
On the former airfield Aspern, Vienna's airport during the interwar period, by the year 2028 around 240 hectares should be developed. This corresponds to the area of 7th and 8th district of Vienna. Planned are around 10,500 homes for 20,000 people and business premises for 15,000 office jobs as well as 5,000 jobs in industry, science, research and education.
For the development and utilization responsible is the Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG, a real estate development company which in December 2004 as a subsidiary company of the Vienna Business Agency, a fund of the City of Vienna (73.6%) and the (Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) Federal Property Association (26.4%) was established. The planning is done in consultation with the relevant municipal departments of the city administration and the Wiener Linien, the public transport company of the city of Vienna.
The former airfield Aspern in 2007; top left of the factory Opel Vienna
The first finished house in the seaside town, the aspern IQ, 2012
Construction phase of the first tranche of homes in the southwestern part of the seaside town's area (October 2013)
Construction of the first tranche (June 2014)
Urban Planning
The urban concept of the maritime city is focused on the mixing of functions - there should be no purely residential use or commercial use. In this way, a dormitory town should be avoided and during the day non-stop revival obtained. The master plan for the seaside town was created by Swedish architect John Tovatt and adopted unanimously by the Vienna City Council on 25 May 2007. Essential contents are the functional arrangement of uses and the spatial configuration of both small and large urban gestures to an urban master plan.
Public space
The geographic center of the seaside town will form a 5-acre lake, which already largely exists, in a total of 9 hectare park. The lake is fed from groundwater. The public space - thus streets, squares and parks - occupies 50 percent of the total area of urban development.
In order to make the public space for the people who will live and work in the seaside town attractive, the Danish open space planners Gehl Architects by the Wien 3420 AG and the Municipal Department 19 (architecture) with the creation of a planning manual for public space (a "score of the public space") were commissioned. The planning manual is based on the idea that public life is a precious commodity that needs to focus it. Therefore Gehl Architects particularly important axes have worked out in the seaside town. The Circular road as a major route that has received the name Sun alley, the Red chord (shopping street, culture), the Blue string (sea park and promenade) and the Green string (green spaces, recreational areas). By 2015, three parks are built, the central Marine park, the Yella-Hertzka park and Hannah Arendt park, along with 8 hectares (May 26 2014 ground-breaking ceremony).
Development phases
The construction of the seaside town of Aspern is to take place until 2028 in three stages:
Stage 1 (2009-2017): The development company Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG builds the green spaces and the technical infrastructure (roads, sewage, etc.) and thus provides the impetus for the development of the maritime city. In the first large-scale expansion in the southwestern part of the maritime city arises a mixed quarter with approximately 2,600 residential units, offices, business and service companies as well as research and development facilities. The large volume is to ensure local supply and the desired mix of uses from the start. In October 2013, the metro stations Aspern North at the northern edge of the area and Seaside town as terminus of line U2 in the south have been opened. In this stage also falls the establishment of a R & D Park (research and development). As first impulse project there emerges an Innovation Quarter (Technology Centre), for which a realization competition was launched. With the IQ aspern by 2012 a first settlement core was created.
Stage 2 (2017-2022): The Station Aspern North and the connection through a powerful city street to the A 23 motorway and the branch S 1 are completed. Other residential and mixed districts and the train station and office quarters arise.
Stage 3 (from 2022): To the train station, the shopping street and the subway route adjacent areas are further compressed, the mix of uses is further improved.
Cultural and Medial
Lighted cranes art action Kranensee, 2014
On February 15, 2014 was held on the construction site of the seaside town of Aspern the art action Kranensee - a ballet of cranes. Some of the then 42 tower swivel cranes and a concrete pump have been fitted with differently colored lights, which to specially composed orchestral music shone, 15 cranes were occupied by crane operators, who approriate for the music turned the booms.
Tracks are now being built in the area south of the Kimball station.
The old tracks were demolished, ballast removed, ducts dug up, and now new underground electrical components and lower ballast are in.
Service to Kimball is set to resume early Monday morning after the 9-day closure to make this work possible.
Workers are beginning to near completion after around 1500 feet of track was renewed this weekend.
Large portions of track on the Ashland (former Englewood) Branch of the Green Line have seen improvements in advance of 24/7 Red Line service rerouted to Ashland/63rd via these tracks during the coming Red Line South Reconstruction Project.
The improvements will help ensure more reliable service during the reroutes.
This view is looking east and shows the northern most station of the 7.3-mile Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project. The green strips bordering either side of the station platform are an eco-track system, which TriMet is piloting for the first time in the region's light rail system.
Licensed for all uses by TriMet.
I love this bridge. For one thing, when I cross from east to west, it means I'm almost there. But more importantly, I think, is the gorgeous view of the Hudson River. Despite human activity, it gives me some sense of the awe that early explorers must have felt when they first saw this river.
The upgrades improved drivers sight lines, and allowed room for other enhancements such as additional passing lanes and median barriers, making things safer for motorists and cyclists.
For more information - tranbc.ca/2011/12/21/the-sea-to-sky-highway-award-winning...
Johnson Street Bridge (the Blue Bridge), connects to Victoria's downtown from Vic West and other west side neighbourhoods and municipalities.
There are actually two bridges spanning the city's Inner Harbour - one serving road traffic and the other, on the left of the picture, serving rail.
Numbers of years ago the city assumed liability and the railway reluctantly allowed legal access for cyclists and pedestrians, albeit with an instruction (often ignored) that cyclists dismount while crossing the rail bridge on the 2.5 metre wide platform adjacent to the tracks. The space is inadequate for the thousands of cyclists and pedestrians who cross the bridge every day.
The bridge will be replaced in a project now underway, with design work and the decommissioning of the old bridges only a few months away. The rail bridge will go first and the road bridge will stay in place until the new structure is complete, scheduled for late 2015.
Until 2005, the rail bridge was still the responsibility of Canadian Pacific, the national railway company that built the railways across Canada at the time of confederation back in the 19th century. CP for many years was attempting to abandon the E&N rail service on Vancouver Island and did little to maintain their infrastructure.
Noticeable is the more advanced rust and corrosion on the rail side.
At the end of March, 2011, the city's consulting engineers declared the bridge unsafe for rail. Many of the structural members are near failure due to pack rust that forms in between the plate steel and rivets holding it all together. Maintenance and repair is a difficult, if not a fruitless endeavor that, at best, would squeeze out a few extra months of service for the railway, but for excessive expense. Sort of like painting your old car so it looks nice on the way to the scrapyard.
Without the stresses of heavy rail crossing the bridge, it may still serve cyclists and pedestrians until decommissioning in January, when some creative thinking will be required to help maintain some level of safety and comfort for cyclists crossing the road bridge (pedestrians already have an existing sidewalk).
A complaint from the local media that the city didn't do its job and could have maintained the rail bridge is misplaced. We inherited a structure already in an advanced state of deterioration and its failing condition report informed our decision to replace the bridge. Both the design and age of the bridge, as well as the harsh salt water environment eating away at both the foundation and superstructure have forced our hand. There is little that can be done to augment the bailing wire and duct tape solutions being applied to keep the bridge going for those few months of service left.
Putting more money into the old bridge makes little sense. Best to start making arrangements for the change to come. Rail will be moved to the west side of the bridge in any event and the service is already down for other maintenance work.
Life support for the old bridge is an expensive luxury. The money will be better spent ensuring a sensible transition to allow bridge users to adapt to the next phase of the project.