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NJSME
On July 24, the NJDOT on behalf of Gov. Chris Christie announced that applications are no being accepted for FY2018 State Aid Programs. The programs included are as follows: Municipal Aid, Transit Village, Bikeways and Safe Streets to Transit.
Applications must be completed and submitted on or before Friday, Oct. 6.
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NJSME
The New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers will host the 2017 NJSME Annual Luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 15, from noon-2 p.m. at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Tickets are $75 each.
Register online here. Registration deadline is Thursday, Nov. 9.
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NJSME
The Annual Awards Luncheon, as part of the NJ League of Municipalities Conference, is attended by over 200 municipal engineers and elected officials. What a great way to get your company name out there in front of such a great target audience!
The luncheon will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
We would like to thank the current luncheon sponsors:
Click here to find out more information on how you can become a sponsor for the luncheon.
NJSME
NJSME would like to welcome its newest members:
Kevin J. Boswell
Boswell Engineering
Catherine D. Outlaw
Township of Maplewood
NJ Spotlight
Despite being an election year, state lawmakers from both parties joined a unified push to lure Amazon’s new corporate headquarters to New Jersey, an effort that now involves a staggering $5 billion state-tax incentive being offered as an enticement. The bipartisan campaign to convince the online retail giant to open a corporate center in New Jersey comes after Amazon officials announced earlier this month that they were seeking proposals from places that would be interested in hosting what would be a second company headquarters to complement its Seattle HQ.
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New Jersey Herald
Despite a number of roadblocks and objections from local residents and business owners, a downtown revitalization project that has been in the works for many years is beginning to take shape in Hopatcong. During a regular meeting of the mayor and council held on Sept. 20, the Borough Council unanimously voted to adopt an ordinance that would accept the River Styx Redevelopment Plan as presented.
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Engineering News-Record
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is jumping into accelerated bridge construction with both feet, figuratively speaking, undertaking two replacement projects at opposite ends of the Keystone State.
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Fortune
Nearly three-quarters of Americans are willing to pay increased taxes or tolls to fund roads and other transportation infrastructure, according to a survey from HNTB Corp. to be released on Monday that was seen by Reuters. The number rises to 84 percent if those tax and toll hikes are mandated by law to be spent only on the infrastructure projects for which they were intended, the survey found.
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The Associated Press via Fire Engineering
Democratic lawmakers from New York and New Jersey are introducing legislation Thursday to force federal transportation officials to implement a rule to test train engineers for sleep apnea. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and New Jersey U.S. Sen. Cory Booker announced the legislation a week after the National Transportation Safety Board said that the engineers involved in crashes in Hoboken and Brooklyn were suffering from undiagnosed sleep apnea.
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Engineering.com
Single unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) directed by joysticks, radio controllers, and mobile phones are already accomplishing a variety of useful tasks, such as aerial photography and security patrols. But using multiple drones requires multiple human operators, and this presents a coordination problem. Now a single operator using emerging human-brain interfaces can control a swarm of drones, making possible new classes of applications, according to Panos Artemiadis, director of the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control (HORC) Lab at Arizona State University.
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