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Route Fifty
When transportation officials consider a construction project, they typically drill into the ground to determine the composition of the earth beneath the work site. The information gleaned from those tests helps determine the design or repair requirements, but it’s an imperfect science, as the results can contain information gaps due to differing conditions between drilling locations — even if they’re just feet apart.
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Route Fifty
This summer, visitors to Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are being treated to a grand, thoughtful and beautiful exhibition that explores the social-reform work of landscape architects, planners, photographers, and others active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. “Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform” (on display through September 15) recounts the story of large-scale civic improvement plans in New York, Boston and Chicago, and the dual births of the professions of urban planning and landscape architecture that emerged from these early successes.
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City Lab
It’s early morning when the first cruise liner of the day approaches Vancouver’s waterfront. The vessel is one of more than 230 similar ships that will dock here this year, adding its passengers to the stream of 10 million overnight guests that the Western Canada city will host this year. From now until the end of the summer season, Vancouver will be at 95% tourism capacity, according to Gwendal Castellan, manager of Sustainable Destination Development at Tourism Vancouver. That is presenting him and his colleagues with a once-unthinkable challenge: Do they just stop promoting the city?
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Government Technology
More than 500 transit buses operated by VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio communicate their location on the region’s streets and highways. That data is processed and made available to the public via mobile apps that show bus locations. However, that data is only sent from the bus every 30 seconds, at the quickest. New storage capabilities, provided by the company Pure Storage and known as FlashArray, essentially speeds up numerous processes, said Steve Young, vice president for technology and innovation at VIA.
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Insurance Journal
While the era of app-based ridehailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, has been credited with everything from keeping impaired drivers off the road to increasing job opportunities to adding new levels of convenience, there is a downside. It is also linked with more congestion and traffic deaths, according to new research. The arrival of ridehailing is associated with an increase of approximately 3% in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents, according to research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Governing
Between 2011 and 2016, fewer than half of the people hired to work for the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, actually lived in the Arkansas capital. This is a reality across the country, especially in places with high costs of living. Local governments generally want their employees to live within city limits. Some require it. But the ones that don’t — like Little Rock — are becoming more proactive to achieve the same goal.
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Claims Journal
Over the next week, Southern California has only a 27% chance of experiencing a third earthquake greater than magnitude six, but a 96% chance of going through a tremor of magnitude five or higher. Those precise probabilities were generated by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, using models based on longstanding principles of seismic behavior and decades of data on aftershocks from earthquakes.
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NextGov
The National Security Agency is failing to live up to government standards for cybersecurity, leaving the spy agency potentially vulnerable to digital attacks, according to an internal watchdog. The NSA Inspector General recently revealed the organization, which collects and analyzes some of the government’s of the most sensitive intelligence, doesn’t always follow its own rules for keeping that information secure. Auditors also found the agency held onto some of that data for longer than the law permits and failed to implement protections against insider threats.
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