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The final section of a defunct bridge in Saskatoon has now been removed by demolition contractor Rakowski Cartage & Wrecking. Excavators fitted with hydraulic breakers were employed by the firm to break up the final span, which collapsed into the river as planned. Demolition work to remove the defunct structure commenced in 2012. Other sections of the bridge were removed using explosive demolition earlier this year.

Did the Lada car owner have it coming to him? More to the point, did the Lada car have it coming?

Put it all down to a bad day in the office for both Lada driver and tracked excavator operator.

Amusingly, the car driver kicks one of the excavator’s tracks in frustration. The machine operator’s response is possibly a tad over the top.

Amazingly, the ice stood up well to the beating that the Lada took.

Forget moose, ducks and other wildlife that cross a highway. It’s time for a new road sign - “Salmon Crossing” - as this video from the US state of Washington shows.

It can happen when salmon are making their way from the Pacific Ocean to their spawning grounds up the same river where they were born. If the river is in flood, the fish can find themselves following the water roiling over a road.

4782 Femern, the company charged with building what will be the world’s longest submerged tunnel, has prequalified companies for consulting work.

The companies will be able to tender for two framework agreements, one for client consulting services and the other for technical in-house consulting services.

Femern is responsible for building the 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link immersed tunnel between Rødbyhavn in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany. The estimated cost has increased over the past several years to reach around €7.4 billion.

The Scottish roads authority has backpedalled on its recently improved cycle lane along a major route on the south-west coast, close to the city of Ayr.

Amid local authority concerns over traffic congestion and one man’s media-grabbing protest, the cycle lane will now be ripped out – after being installed this summer.

As the video shows, it is a protected wide lane, often painted blue. Cars appear to travel freely beside it.

Some people should never be allowed behind controls of an excavator, especially if there is water nearby.

What is it about water that attracts certain people? Perhaps, if you are an excavator operator, it is the challenge of, say, trying to float? Or maybe it’s the skill required to manoeuvre the machine and yourself out of a quagmire?

At the least, an operator loses their machine. At worst, they lose two machines – theirs and another one that came to the rescue, and whose operator should also have known better.

Nothing lasts forever, including – and perhaps especially – highways. One fine example of this is a 21km section of the original 580km Pennsylvania Turnpike in the US state of Pennsylvania.

As the video shows, vegetation, animals and cyclists have slowly been reclaiming part of what was hailed as an engineering masterpiece when it was opened in 1940.

A road tunnel costing €1 billion and a €111 million cycle and pedestrian bridge are among three infrastructure projects given the go-ahead by London’s mayor.

The Silvertown Tunnel and the cycle and pedestrian bridge will link the Canary Wharf area north of the River Thames with Rotherhithe on the south bank.

London mayor Sadiq Khan also approved an extension to the Docklands Light Railway that would run to Gallions Reach on the south bank of the Thames.

A 100-year old steel arch bridge in the United States stood firm for a time against the blasts laid down by demolition experts.

The structure connected the cities of Little Rock and North Little Rock in the state of Arkansas. It carried U.S. Route 70 but was finally closed on 28 September.

Although Broadway Bridge, spanning the Arkansas River, was built almost a century ago, the steel arches were added 60 years later as part of a strengthening project to the under-structure to widen the river navigation channel.

Either cycle paths in the southern Romanian city of Targu Jiu are too crowded or this unicyclist needed an adrenalin rush.

Likely the latter, and daredevil Flaviu Cernescu, 33, got his fill as he pedalled around the 1m-wide crumbling rim of a disused industrial brick chimney stack. He is more than 250m up and manages to hop his unicycle over objects before deciding to hang by one hand into the black abyss of the chimney.

Tiring of his unicycle, Cernescu decided to walk and juggle his way around the rim.

A UK-based demolition contractor has carried out a successful bridge demolition project over the busy M1 motorway. The specialist firm, Amac Group, used a fleet of excavators fitted with hydraulic breakers and other attachments to break up the bridge in a single overnight possession from 10th-11th September 2016. The bridge demolition is the first of two being carried out as part of the improvement works for a new link road connecting the M1 and A5 routes. The second bridge removal is planned for the 24th-25th September.

Governments, police forces and parent groups have use various messages to warn the public about dangerous driving and some have been more effective than others.

Two recent examples – one from New Zealand and one from Australia – make their point in different ways. The New Zealand video - ‘don’t use a mobile phone while driving’ – gets the message across with gentle humour.

The Australian video – ‘don’t drink and drive’ – employs intense drama to ensure a mark is left on the viewer.

We’ve all had bad days at the office. But sometimes, as in the case of heavy equipment operators, your office is a rather large machine, the ‘bad’ can be disastrous at the least and fatal at the worst.

As this video shows, a machine driver can be literally thrown out of his office if he or she is having a bad day.

At 2:20 into the video, we see the results of what would normally be road rage in any other machine but a material handler.

Near the end of the video, we see how the consequences of a small bump in a warehouse can have big repercussions.

In the UK, work to connect sections of the new €223 million A556 Knutsford to Bowdon dual carriageway, between the M6 and M56 in Cheshire, will get underway in earnest at the weekend with the opening of its first bridge.

The route of the road, forming a link between junction 19 of the M6 motorway at Knutsford and junction 7 of the M56 motorway at Bowdon, has been taking shape for some time.
 

A large fleet of asphalt road construction machines has been used at the Eindhoven Airbase in the Netherlands to reconstruct the runway.

Contractor 7456 BAM Infra carried out the work to resurface the runway to the tight specifications and tight time frame requirements of the Royal Dutch Airforce.