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  • ADA-AAHHH! Friday (7/11/2025)

    Cursed Curb Island Hope you can hop out of your wheelchair and pick it up! Quickly Accessible Bus Stop You’ll get there pretty quick at least. Another Pole?!…

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    July 11, 2025

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  • Best Practices for Placing Storm Water Inlets

    Best Practices for Placing Storm Water Inlets

    Introduction The entire design of a storm water system is summed up in a riddle: How does rain pass through without damaging anything? I’m sure you’ve interacted with…

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    July 1, 2025

    4 min read

  • You Should Work Harder At Managing Your Time

    You Should Work Harder At Managing Your Time

    Introduction The saying is true, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.” Though the hyperbolic dumpster fire of metaphors are seldom true events, the inner turmoil of…

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    June 13, 2025

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  • Why Your Corridors Are Slow And How To Prevent It

    Why Your Corridors Are Slow And How To Prevent It

    You’re Too Slow! Have you noticed your computer taking ages to load your corridors? Have you taken a nap and woke up to find your computer still reprocessing?…

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    May 14, 2025

    4 min read

  • Making My Useful TDOT GPT

    Making My Useful TDOT GPT

    Introduction I had been enjoying Google’s NotebookLM. It was fantastic at uploading a document at making one page summaries, podcasts, and answering questions. The tool has been positively…

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    April 10, 2025

    4 min read

  • 5 Key Tips for Vertical Alignments in OpenRoads Designer

    5 Key Tips for Vertical Alignments in OpenRoads Designer

    Here are some key tips for OpenRoads Designer users when working with Vertical Alignments. These are very useful for someone who comes from a Microstation background. I previously…

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    March 27, 2025

    4 min read

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