usual_nerd t1_javmyas wrote on March 4, 2023 at 12:36 PM

Reply to comment by Intru in More accidents in Route 4 by Few-Afternoon-6276

You’re right about crashes, but your assessment of the training of transportation engineers is not correct. Having questionable priorities based on years of car-focused policies isn’t the same as only watching training videos. Civil engineering has many sub specialties and most college programs give you a few classes on each with options for more electives. There are arguments to be made about whether a broad base of understanding or specialization is more important, but water resources engineers and geotechnical engineers don’t get more specialization either. Most learning takes place on the job while you are an engineer-in-training (min of 4 years).

Intru t1_javv910 wrote on March 4, 2023 at 1:58 PM

I know, I might of been a bit harsh but I did studied it. And even tho I exaggerated and catoonized it I do so out of frustration, because I see my piers so wholly unprepared and pushing archaic priorities when put in a DPW role. That's not to say that they are all like this, there some very competent DPW staff in the Seacoast, for example, that usually get vetoed down by state or local pressure do to lack of understanding, byzantine regulations, or just local pressures and fears of change.