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28 Days of Autumn ~ Sonoma County Infographic summary

28 Days of Autumn ~ Infographic summary

Thanks everyone for your input and participation concerning my recent “28 Days of Autumn” photo series. I created a couple Infographics revealing some interesting demographic insights by examining parallel social media results and findings generated across Facebook, WordPress, Pinterest and Twitter. I was delighted to see a 22% trend increase in visits and traffic on my blog and amazed by the international exposure and shared global passion for fall season. I’ll wrap up and finish a leaf and color survey and video compilation this weekend. One of my 2014 online projects is to promote, host and cultivate a new Facebook business site to increase customer foot traffic for a local nursery and possibly leverage, find and engage new prospects and customers with similar visual seasonal promotions and campaigns.

28 Days of Autumn, Sonoma County CA

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28 Days of Autumn, Sonoma County CA #2

28 Days of Autumn, Sonoma County CA #2

SMART train – Coast Guard – Petaluma river Haystack bridge updates

Excellent news concerning this retrofit, replacement and local modernization project. The existing bridge l@@ks dangerous and neglected. Thumbs up!

~ Did You Know? The new Haystack Bridge that will be installed in Petaluma is a re-purposed bascule bridge, purchased from Galveston, TX. Part of a Coast Guard project to widen the channel opening there made a relatively new bridge that was suitable to the SMART project. This approach offers several benefits over the original plan to rehabilitate the existing Haystack Bridge: the maximum train speed over the bridge goes up from 10 to 40 mph; the useful life of the bridge goes from 20 years to 80 years; the river channel widens from 55 to 87 feet; and the superstructure of the bridge goes from a low fender protection system to more substantial “pile clusters” to protect from a barge impact. In addition, all of these improvements will be achieved with the re-purposed span for the same cost as the originally planned retrofit.

November 12, 2013