#Austria laid the first tracks produced with green hydrogen instead of fossil fuels, making them the first net zero CO₂ emission tracks in the world. The new tracks were used at the western exit from #Linz main station. #ÖBB CEO, Andreas Matthä, stated, the ÖBB wants to produce all its steel with net zero CO₂ emissions by 2050.

https://www.railjournal.com/infrastructure/first-green-rail-laid-in-austria/

Gyaros Island of Exile

#ICRC 13.06.1948 - Penitentiary camp nr.4 - project "infrastructural": https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/

#Greece #Cyclades #Gyaros

#Alumil #Arxellence #IdeasCompetition

Wind turbine trial sparks hope as small-scale power source
By James Wakelin

A small-scale wind turbine has been developed in Adelaide in the hope of supplying energy direct to off-grid users, including farms, wineries and construction sites.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-10/high-tech-wind-turbine-prototype-trial-in-adelaide/105619294

Archdaily : Aspire Westjet Lounge / MRDK https://www.archdaily.com/1032139/aspire-westjet-lounge-mrdk #Infrastructure #Transportation #InteriorDesign #Airport

Saturday, August 9, 2025

[vlog/video] Why Americans, Europeans choose to fight for Ukraine — Russia’s budget deficit hits $61 billion, already surpassing annual target by 30% — Ukrainian drones strike 23,000 targets in July, kill 5,000 Russian troops — Russia has lost 1,061,350 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/saturday-august-9-2025/

Gyaros Island of Exile

#ICRC 13.06.1948 - Ghioura island, penitentiary camp nr.4. Distribution of relief items - project "infrastructural": https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/

#Greece #Cyclades #Gyaros

#Alumil #Arxellence3 #IdeasCompetition

PBOT is doing maintenance work on another bridge. After the following, they again remind us that they have about 1000 times too little money to bring Portland's bridges up to code. That is neither a joke nor much of exaggeration.

(Aug. 8, 2025) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) will conduct expansion joint repairs and replacements on the Vista Bridge from Monday, Aug. 11 through Friday, Aug. 15, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

During construction, the bridge will be closed to all motor vehicles. Steel plates will be installed at the end of each workday to allow access for people driving motor vehicles outside of work hours.

Southbound traffic will be detoured at SW Park Place, to SW Salmon, to SW 13th Avenue to Montgomery Drive. Northbound motorists will be detoured to SW Montgomery Drive to SW 13th Avenue.

Sidewalks will remain open for pedestrians and bicyclists during work hours. Flaggers will allow access for TriMet vehicles and first responders through the work zone.

The bridge carries an estimated 11,000 vehicle trips per day.

The traveling public is advised to expect delays, travel cautiously, observe all closures and directions by flaggers, and use alternate routes if possible. Local access to residences and businesses will remain available.

As always, please keep our crews safe by following all traffic control signs and flaggers while travelling through or near work zones. Go slow when traveling on alternate routes.

The 99-year-old structure, formally known as the Vista Avenue Viaduct, was built in 1926 to link SW Portland neighborhoods to Washington Park and Downtown Portland. Its architecture is typical of the popular arched bridges that were built in the 1920s and 1930s. It carried the Council Crest streetcar line, which was later disbanded. A 50th anniversary party was held for the structure in 1976, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. More background is available on the National Register Nomination Form, available online.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes to extend Newark airport flight cuts through October 2026

“…as it continues to face air traffic controller shortage and congestion issues”

#USA #travel #FAA #infrastructure #flights #airport #AirTravel
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https://www.reuters.com/business/us-proposes-extend-newark-airport-flight-cuts-through-october-2026-2025-08-08/

Headline: The Great Cloud Reversal: Why IT Teams Are Moving Back to Dedicated Infrastructure

Quote: "The greatest surprise was that 42% of IT pros said they were migrating workloads back from public cloud to dedicated servers"

https://www.itprotoday.com/hybrid-cloud/the-great-cloud-reversal-why-it-teams-are-moving-back-to-dedicated-infrastructure

#Cloud
#Infrastructure
#OnPrem

#TheGuardian: "Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with #European #crossborderRail #travel" (citing extensively @jon)

"For a whole raft of reasons – inadequate #infrastructure, unwilling operators, incompatible systems, incomprehensible timetabling and (last but not least) impossibly complicated #ticketing – long #rail journeys across #Europe are all too often a pastime rather than a practical travel alternative."

#train #trains #EU

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/timetables-tickets-prices-european-cross-border-rail-travel

The Grand Parkway between Interstate 10 and U.S. 290 will be expanded from two to three lanes in each direction to help ease traffic congestion in a part of Harris County that is being rapidly developed.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2025/08/08/528248/stretch-of-grand-parkway-in-western-harris-county-set-for-157-million-expansion/

Gyaros Island of Exile

#ICRC 13.06.1948 - Penitentiary camp nr.4. Distribution of relief items - project "infrastructure": https://benhuser.com/2025/05/25/gyaros-island-of-exile/

#Greece #Cyclades #Gyaros

#Alumil #Arxellence3 #IdeasCompetition

UK ministers push ahead with discount on bills for households near new pylons https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/08/uk-ministers-push-ahead-discount-energy-bills-households-near-new-pylons #Energyefficiency #Renewableenergy #Consumeraffairs #Householdbills #Infrastructure #Energyindustry #Energybills #Smartmeters #Environment #Politics #Business #Energy #UKnews #Labour #Money