Denisa Trenkle – Graphic Designer/ Script Writer Bjorn Rostad – Animator Jordan Salinger – Producer Micah Hilt – Project Manager Egon Terplan – Musical Composer/ Script Editor Jonathan Rogers – Researcher Sarah Dennis Phillips – Narrator Noah Christman – Audio Assistant Anthony Bruzzone – Content Consultant Contact: denisa_trenkle@gensler.com or jordan.salinger@gmail.com – Spur on Vimeo
View this complete post...Archive for the ‘Bridges’ Category
Transportation and Health: Policy and Conventions for Safer, Healthier People and Communities
Friday, August 12th, 2011![SafeTrec SafeTrec](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/screen-shot-2011-08-11-at-34255-pm.png)
SAFETREC
The public road system in the U.S. is the world’s busiest, sustaining more than 3 trillion vehicle- miles of travel each year on a network of more than 4 million miles of roads and highways. It has had enormous positive impacts on U.S. society, driving economic growth and innovation, providing mobility and opportunity to its users, and helping the U.S. maintain its global economic competitiveness.
View this complete post...Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Building America’s Future’s just released a report entitled, Falling Apart and Falling Behind. InfrastructureUSA’s Managing Director Steve Anderson discussed the findings with former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell, a Co-Chair of President of Building America’s Future’s Educational Fund (BAF), and Marcia Hale, President of BAF.
View this complete post...Harrodsburg, Kentucky: Double Crossover Diamond Construction – Looking South
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind
Monday, August 8th, 2011![BAF: Falling Apart and Falling Behind BAF: Falling Apart and Falling Behind](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/screen-shot-2011-08-08-at-103334-am.jpg)
BUILDING AMERICA’S FUTURE
Rebuilding America’s economic foundation is one of the most important missions we face in the 21st century. Our parents and grandparents built America into the world’s leading economic superpower. We have a responsibility to our own children and grandchildren to strengthen—not squander —that inheritance, and to pass on to them a country whose best days are still ahead.
View this complete post...Why We Need Infrastructure Investment
Thursday, August 4th, 2011UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Written by: Bruce Josten
For the sake of near- and long-term job creation, stronger economic growth, and enhanced U.S. competitiveness, the Chamber strongly supports robust surface transportation reauthorization legislation that addresses revenue shortfalls and includes necessary and urgent policy and program reforms.
View this complete post...Time Lapse of Construction on I-90, WA
Monday, August 1st, 2011WSDOT and crews are in the third construction season on the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass — Hyak to Keechelus Dam project. In this time lapse video, you can watch construction of the Gold Creek Bridges from 2010 — 2011. In 2010, crews installed 120-foot deep bridge foundations, and part of the animal under crossing at Gold […]
View this complete post...Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project (TRIP) Bonds
Friday, July 29th, 2011![How Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project Bonds Work How Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project Bonds Work](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/screen-shot-2011-07-28-at-15647-pm.jpg)
Looking to leverage private investment and an untapped market for tax credit bonding to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) have introduced legislation to create a tax credit bond program dedicated to transportation infrastructure. Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project bonds or TRIPs will be a financing tool to fund the rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling transportation infrastructure.
View this complete post...The Mackinaw Bridge – Did you Know?
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011We attached the GoPro to the Jeep and drove across the bridge, and then I added some fun facts about the bridge! – WithOutTheSnowDogs on YouTube
View this complete post...Jamestown, RI: Bridge Demolition
Monday, July 25th, 2011Demolition of the main section of the Jamestown Bridge in Rhode Island. Now who’s going to clean that up? Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the material shown (video) or heard (audio) in this video. Video and it’s sound-s belong to their respectful owners. –RandomKewlStuff on YouTube
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