Utilization Rates of Pedestrian Bridges in Kuala Lumpur

Since the creation of the Goodwill bridge, the amount of traffic on the bridge daily has been noticeably increasing. On an average week, over 40’000 people travel across the bridge due to its convenience and easy accessibility. For the university students of QUT that catch the train in every day to Southbank, it provides fast and easy travel to and from

Beyond the road reconstruction, in 2012, out of all traffic death, pedestrians accounted for 16.16% which is the 5th highest in the nation and 3rd highest in the child pedestrian fatality rate.3 This indicates that the state and city developers need to take in account more pedestrian and cycling safety measures in their city planning and

With the constrained scenario, traffic flow has improved, commute time has decreased, workers are getting to their places of business faster, and the businesses themselves are finding that they can transport their goods in a more timely fashion. The measures that were employed consist of adding directional bike lanes to the bridge, restriping the bridge combined with timed directional transition of the middle 5th lane, additional bus routes, and converting old buildings into domiciles. Although these measures have helped to improve traffic flow in the region, capital will have to be spent at a future date in order to add additional

Commuters who take alternate routes add unnecessary mileage to their car. When a driver avoids the toll continuously the value of their car depletes. The more mileage added to a car, the less desirable for potential buyers it becomes. Not to mention, time becomes arbitrarily wasted when the bridge is avoided only to avoid paying three dollars and seventy-five cents for the toll. The first alternate route that can be taken is Highway 87, which will take you fifty-five minutes and add thirty-nine miles to your car. Another, route locals take is Scenic Highway; you will add double the miles to your odometer and lose twenty-five minutes of vital time. As the facts have stated, the Garcon Point Bridge is the most appropriate transportation route.

Bridges are a vital part of people’s everyday life and without them people would not be able to do nearly as much as is possible today. The weather in the outer banks of North Carolina is very rough and can be very detrimental to the various structures on them. When hurricanes come near North Carolina the outer banks are hit the worst. Bridges on the outer banks keep being destroyed by weather and so the people there have to think about the cost, the effectiveness, and the need between a strong expensive bridge that will be able to handle rough weather or a cheap quick to build bridges that may fall with any extreme weather.

Since the early days, the men try overcome environmental challenges and, in this process, ends up creating amazing masterpieces of engineering. Among this works, the bridges appears as the clearest representatives of how the mankind could adapt to Earth’s contours. If the shape of landscape can’t be changed, the bridges are the solution to link two places and allows the connection of the traffic to improve aspects such as the communication and the trade. Depending to the need, to the sources and to the environment, the bridge can be constructed in a specific configuration. There are five main sorts of bridges configurations. First, there is the simplest bridge, the beam bridge. Second, the arch bridge, one of the oldest kind. There are the truss, composed of set of trellises. Lastly, there are the cable-stayed and

After these factors are understood it is important to mention that road safety is everyone’s responsibility. The target groups of Toronto must be understood to get the appropriate analysis of audience when implementing change. The groups are as follows: vehicle operators, both private and public transport passengers, pedestrians & cyclists, older adults, motorcyclists, school children and teachers to create safe school zones. By implementing change within these groups we can create change and make a difference on the streets of Toronto. It should be mentioned that Toronto is set up in four community council areas, which are North York, Toronto & East York, Etobicoke-York and Scarborough. To get a better understanding of the effects in each area Figure 0.1 demonstrates the total amount of pedestrian killed or injured by each region from 2008-2012. It is shown that Toronto & East York holds the top spot with 36% of collisions with a total of 3,129. Followed by North York holding 24% of collisions with a total of 2,021. Leading to Etobicoke-York holding 20% of collisions with a total of 1,721. Lastly with Scarborough holding 19% of collisions at a total of 1,655 (City of Toronto). Each region has it’s own effects of the

The study found that alternatives needed to be considered for rehabilitation; however, repairing the existing bridge would be difficult as conditions continued to deteriorate. The study also noted that the local street network would not be able to safely carry the diverted traffic. The study led to the conclusion that it was time to prepare to identify and evaluate the potential implications of future solutions to the issue (New York State Department of Transportation,

Bridges are structures that become very susceptible as time passes. In Oregon there have been many bridges being identified to be seismic vulnerable. In an article by Ed Jahn, he sates, “nearly sixty percent of state-identified lifeline bridges likely to collapse or be potentially taken out of use after a quake” (Jahn). Bridges are a whole different story because they aren’t easy to be re-evaluated when they are used constantly by people to get around. The problem with many of these structures, though is that more than half of these bridges were built before 1970 (Jahn). Because of this they aren’t reinforced with new building codes making them highly vulnerable to any disaster to the point of collapsing. It isn’t an easy thing to fix the problems with a bridge because many seem stable but are still at great risk. It is known that “Today, they're still building fracture critical bridges with the belief that they're not going to break,” (Rosenker). Even when a bridge is being identified to see if it’s stable a lot of the time they are thought to be ok, but are really in a bad condition. Because they aren’t fully evaluated, and if a disaster were to hit in a certain location it could cause the bridge to

People normally don’t have trouble driving over bridges, they speed, and they switch lanes. It doesn’t matter how scared I am, I would just drive over the bridge. But, I only drive in the middle lane looking straight just singing in my head. The reason why I have a fear of high bridges is because I think the bridge is going to collapse. At the end of the day, I do not want to suffer.

Major cities are dominated by vehicles and legislations and guidelines are implemented in a way to support them. This has put pedestrians at the last step of the

To increase sustainability, civil engineers should consider reliability and transport expenditures in the new design. The current design of the intersection is unsustainable due to improper timing of the traffic signals. There should be some regulations to the current traffic signals to avoid long delays in traffic (Kockelman and Shabih 17). Mobility barriers at the intersection can result to a slow response to emergencies. Therefore, the timing of traffic lights at the

Even though the bridge is very amazing, with its view and allowing people from around to progress with its businesses. The bridge has its down side to it too, because it has attracted many that are suicidal, to take their life and some have actually done

Our transportation system, quite arguably, may embody our most vital system, as Infrastructure and Democracy clarifies, “access is the hallmark of a great infrastructure” (Jones, Reinecke). By great contrast, our roads remain a current issue. 42 percent of America’s urban highways remain congested, costing the United States 101 billion dollars in wasted time and fuel each year. Also, the32 percent of roads, in poor or mediocre condition, cost the average traveler $324 per year (American Infrastructure Report Card). Unfortunately, updating the highway systems seems longer than it may seem, as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that from proposal to completion most highways will need nine to nineteen years to fix (Leduc, Wilson 129). In addition to the roads, our bridges are failing just as much. One of every nine bridges within the United States is categorized as structurally deficient. The average bridge 42 years old, and in order to eliminate the bridge renovation backlog, our country would need to invest twenty and a half billion dollars until 2028 (American Infrastructure Report Card). However, in 2013, the United States only invested 12.8 billion dollars in bridge reconstruction and repair (American Infrastructure Report Card). Also, our countries transit

A bridge is a structure providing path over an obstacle. When constructing a bridge, obstacle can be a river, railway track or a valley and the path provided by bridge can be for a road, pedestrians, a railway, pipelines, viaducts to carry water from rich areas to dry cities, or for commercial purpose to host commercial buildings such as restaurants and shops. A bridge can also be laid to reduce the distance of travel which in turn reduces the time to reach the destination.