James Corless is the Director of Transportation for America, a coalition of over 400 organizations working to promote a new national transportation policy that’s smarter, safer, cleaner and provides more choice. Prior to Transportation for America, Mr. Corless was a senior planner for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area where he […]
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Guest on The Infra Blog: James Corless, Director, Transportation for America
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Getting to Know the Finer Details of the Senate Highway Bill
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 15
As Rep. DeFazio observed, getting to know the finer details of the Senate highway bill (MAP-21, S. 1813) has taken on new significance now that a House-Senate conference negotiation on the reauthorization measure has become a reality. Understanding the Senate bill is important because the Senate measure is likely to become the basis of any final bill.
May 22-24, San Francisco, CA: High Speed Rail Conference
Thursday, April 19th, 2012From US High Speed Rail Association: Business and political leaders will come together with the world’s top experts to bring high speed rail to America, starting in California. Construction is about to get underway on the first phase of the proposed state-wide, 800-mile state-of-the-art transportation project that will revolutionize mobility in the state. This new rail […]
View this complete Infra Blog post...Talking Infrastructure with the New Faces of Engineering College Edition Winners
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA, recently spoke with several winners of ASHRAE, NCEES, and the National Engineers Week Foundation’s New Faces of Engineering College Recognition Program.
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012Transortation Issues Daily
When a new Congress or member proposes an infrastructure bank (learn more from Wikipedia), like clockwork I will hear from a couple of State DOT CFOs who say in frustration: “But that’s financing, not funding.” It’s great to have more financing tools and great to accelerate projects, my friends say, but financing rarely adds the additional new funding that is needed to address our long range needs and growing infrastructure deficit. The funding and projects deficit grows due to rising vehicle fuel efficiency, increased construction costs, inflation, and more roads reaching old age and needing preservation and maintenance.
Great American Infrastructure: Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Skyway System
Monday, April 16th, 2012This is the sixteenth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012From the Council on Foreign Relations:
By: Scott Thomasson
Despite the pressing infrastructure investment needs of the United States, federal infrastructure policy is paralyzed by partisan wrangling over massive infrastructure bills that fail to move through Congress. Federal policymakers should think beyond these bills alone and focus on two politically viable approaches.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Jonathan Nettler, AICP, Managing Editor, Planetizen
Monday, April 9th, 2012Jonathan Nettler, AICP is Managing Editor of Planetizen. He has lived and practiced in Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles on a range of project types for major public, institutional, and private developer clients including: large scale planning and urban design, waterfront and brownfield redevelopment, transit-oriented development, urban infill, campus planning, […]
View this complete Infra Blog post...May 22-23, San Francisco, CA: 2nd Annual Infrastructure and Energy Finance West Conference
Friday, April 6th, 2012From Euromoney Seminars: Following from the success of last year’s event, Euromoney Seminars and Project Finance Magazine will again team up to host the 2nd Annual Infrastructure and Energy Finance West Conference. In response to market demand, we have expanded the event focus to include energy and power and will bring together key market players […]
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