There is no knowing the Evil Eyebrow
Today was the dedication ceremony for the Ashford Dunwoody diverging diamond interchange. I’ve had a few posts about this before, surrounding the opening of the crossovers, and I’m happy to say its doing well. Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle gave a speech along with various other dignitaries. I’m proud to have been involved with this project …
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One of the things that is striking about the Ashford Dunwoody diverging diamond is how you’ll be walking across the road, and from one end of the bridge to the other. We’re putting you in the middle. “What?” you ask, confident that you must have misheard. No. It’s true. As a pedestrian you will be …
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So, to alleviate that fact, I’m going to give you a grab bag! I read John Scalzi’s Red Shirts. I was anticipating this with the high expectations you might expect from a crazy-stalker-fan, mostly due to the five chapters that had been pre-released. Unfortunately, I have to rate this one as “less awesome than expected.” …
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From my sources, Day 2 of the diverging diamond operations are going well. I’ve been on the phone with various people to discuss if there are ways we can change up the striping or signing of the interchange to make it more efficient. After all, this is brand new to all of us and we’ve …
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As of noon o’clock on the first real day of operation, the Ashford Dunwoody Diverging Diamond Interchange is operating well. There are some hiccups, illustrated above. These were expected and are quite normal for this sort of change in traffic control. Why? It has to do with the signals. When the interchange signal at the …
At least, it was going well when I left last night at midnight. It’s been 15 hours since then, and I haven’t been back yet, so who knows? Maybe the bridge fell down (I doubt it; I probably would have heard about it). Everybody and their sister is covering or commenting on this, which is …
I got to be (very briefly) on TV on Monday. Check it out. There’s additional coverage on WSB, too.
Today is my last day at Moreland Altobelli. I started back in April of 2009 and it’s been an adventure and then some. I was the project manager of the first-in-Georgia, award-winning Ashford Dunwoody Diverging Diamond Interchange; I conducted a number of traffic studies that led to other important projects being constructed; I built signals and recommended …
The wonderful What If blog by Randall Munroe put me back onto a blog that I’d found last year called Nuclear Secrecy. I’d originally been introduced to this blog through the web application NUKEMAP, whereby you can choose a location and then blow it up with the nuclear weapon of your choice. The map shows …
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Speaking of diverging diamonds, the second one in the state of Georgia was approved last night by the Gwinnett County Commission. Pleasant Hill Road over I-85 will be a DDI within a year. I didn’t design this one, but I did review the plans and have a lot of input from our lessons learned from …