In it’s relatively short life span (Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced it March 2012), the Chicago Infrastructure Trust has garnered it’s fair share of skepticism and awe. Check out what experts, journalists, and Mayor Emanuel himself, have to say on the newly formed Chicago Infrastructure Trust. “Sometimes if you want something done right, you’ve got to do […]
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This is the twenty-fifth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States. What: The I. B. Perrine Bridge at Twin Falls, ID is a truss arch four-lane bridge carrying U.S. Highway 93 over the Snake River Canyon. When: The bridge was opened to traffic in September 1927, and at the time, […]
View this complete Infra Blog post...Innovation NewsBriefsVol. 23, No. 30 Reprinted from the National Journal’s Transportation Experts Blog, “Moving the Dial on the Gas Tax,” week of November 12 (Comment by Kenneth Orski, Publisher of Innovation Briefs) As one senior congressional aide confided to us, “I don’t see our constituents lobbying to raise the gas tax. The only people we […]
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Transportation Issues Daily Here is part two of our series of photos of Hurricane Sandy’s impact on transportation facilities and travelers. Grand Central Station was nearly empty on Tuesday. Image – Hiroko Masuike, NYT. People peeked into the closed Bowling Green subway station after Hurricane Sandy hit New York. Image – Justin Lane, European Pressphoto […]
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Infrastructure experts from around the country welcome the Obama Administration back to the Whitehouse, and express the urgency of turning our attention toward infrastructure.
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Transportation Issues Daily
Here are a handful of photos about Hurricane Sandy’s impact on transportation facilities and travelers. First up is a video from the New York Times’ Erik Olsen.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the unprecedented problems with public transportation, some commuters have chosen a different kind of transport: the two-wheeled, human-powered kind:
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With relief efforts underway, experts weigh in on Sandy’s effect on the future of American infrastructure:
“Hurricane Sandy is an urgent reminder that strengthening our infrastructure is a critical need that should not be subjected to politics of any kind…”
-Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
“We have to find ways to build [New York City] back stronger and better than ever before to make sure that if there is still another situation like this, another weather pattern like this, we’re more prepared and more protected than we have been thus far.”
-NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
As if we needed such an awful reminder, Sandy painfully demonstrates the vital importance of our nation’s infrastructure. There are too many stories of terrible tragedies in the wake of this Superstorm; the safety of people must be everyone’s main concern.
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Hurricane Sandy has tested our infrastructure in many ways. Users are urged to visit Show Us Your Infra! for eye-witness videos of the storm’s aftermath.
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