Taking The High-Tech Road Sarah Harney | May 2003
For nearly two years, traffic managers in Kentucky eavesdropped. Their target: a Louisville intersection that had become the scene of an inordinate number of accidents. They set up two sound-sensitive cameras to record traffic continuously. When the cameras recorded the common sounds of an accident the squeal of tires, the smack of metal hitting metal the system stored the film clips from four seconds before and four seconds after the incident.
By studying the aural and visual evidence, the managers were able to design several collision-reducing improvements for the intersection extra signs, new lane stripings, an extension to a traffic island. When project manager Jeff Crossfield compares the $50,000 investment in the portable cameras with the $5,000 to $10,000 a month and several months it takes to study an intersection using more traditional means, he says, It doesn t take much to make
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âIt would just lag and lag and lag and it just seemed to be getting worse,â said John Peris. âMy wife needed it for work, so we needed it for work.â
With changes coming from two significant Lancaster County internet providers and remote working and schooling set to continue well into the future, making sure youâve got smooth internet access at the right price is more important than ever.
The good news is that the answer isnât always paying an internet provider more to get more data or an enhanced plan, as the Perises learned.
Winter is coming.
There is a good chance, in fact, that last weekendâs light dusting in the Pendleton area was but just a preview of Mother Natureâs annual slide into winter. Bad weather conditions, however, in the Burnt River Canyon east of Baker City closed Interstate 84 for about four hours on Sunday, Dec. 13, after several commercial trucks crashed on the snow-slickened freeway, providing an instant reminder that driving habits need to adjust with the changing of the season.
Interstate 84 has a history of bad crashes in winter â the 2012 charter bus crash that killed nine people on Cabbage Hill, the 26-vehicle predawn pileup that injured 12 in 2015 just east of Baker City â are but just a couple of recent examples.
LEBANON, Pa. â When this holiday season rolls around, youâre likely to find a Christmas tree with not just gifts under its boughs, but also a model train encircling its base. Itâs easy to understand the symbolism behind putting a star at the top of a Christmas tree and the gifts beneath, but how did that model train find its way into holiday tradition? The link between trains and Christmas dates to mid-19th-century Germany, where the hand-carved wooden villages placed beneath their decorated holiday trees began including carved wooden trains.
How Model Trains Became a Christmas Staple
Later, a New York City inventor named Joshua Lionel Cowen inadvertently popularized model trains at Christmastime in America. According to Wikipedia, at age 7, Cowen had made his first toy train by adding a small motor to a model of a railroad flat car.
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