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April 19th: A Resilient Region – RPA’s 23rd Annual Assembly

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

The New York metropolitan region has thrived in recent years even as it has been buffeted by economic and environmental pressures. Yet three urgent challenges – climate change, declining economic opportunity and fiscal uncertainty in the public sector – threaten to derail the region’s continued progress. RPA’s 23rd annual Assembly, “A Resilient Region,” will examine these pressing problems and shed light on the best strategies to overcome them and ensure the region’s continued success.

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Tags: Annual Assembly, Connecticut, CT, New Jersey, New York, NJ, NY, Regional Plan Association, RPA
Posted in Accountability, Congestion, Funding, Highway, Local, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Rail, Roads, The Infra Blog, Urban Planning

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Richmond, VA: I-95 North Bridge Replacement

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

The Interstate 95 North bridge over Overbrook Road (at mile marker 77) was replaced March 15-18, 2013, as part of a major project to restore 11 bridges along the I-95 corridor in Richmond, Va. This time-lapse video from shows crews replacing the nine bridge sections. For more information about the I-95 Richmond Bridge Restorations project, […]

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Tags: I-95, Overbrook Road, Richmond, VA, vdotweb, Virginia, YouTube
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Highway, Local, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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Wanted: A Reasoned Approach to Dealing with America’s Infrastructure Needs

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 24, No. 4
It seems like not a week goes by without fresh warnings about the nation’s “crumbling infrastructure” and renewed appeals to rebuild our aging highways and bridges. President Obama reinvigorated the campaign with his State-of-the-Union proposal for a $50 billion program of infrastructure investments, $40 billion of which would be devoted to a “fix-it-first” program targeted at urgent improvements such as “structurally deficient” bridges.

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Tags: American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, C. Kenneth Orski, Fix It First Program, Highway Trust, President Obama, State of the Union
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bipartisan, Guest Post, Highway, Innovation Newsbriefs, National, Public Opinion, Public Transportation, Roads, The Infra Blog

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Marble Falls, TX: US-281 Bridge Demolition

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

Demolition of the old US 281 bridge in Marble Falls Texas on the morning of March 17th 2013. – Ando22RE on YouTube

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Tags: Ando22RE, Marble Falls, Texas, TX, YouTube
Posted in Bridges, Highway, Inland Waterways, Local, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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Reactions to the ASCE 2013 Report Card on America’s Infrastructure

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Transportation for America’s Director James Corless: “Our country’s association of civil engineers continues to do the yeoman’s work of sounding the alarm on our country’s infrastructure — the roads, rails and waterways that we depend on to move our goods from place to place and get us where we need to go each day. But […]

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Tags: 2013 Report Card on America's Infrastructure, AAR, AASHTO, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, American Public Transportation Association, American Public Works Association, American Traffic Safety Services Association, American Water Works Association, APTA, APWA, ASCE, Association of American Railroads, Association of State Dam Safety Officials, ATSSA, AWWA, BAF, Bud Wright, Building America's Future, Ed Rendell, Edward R. Hamberger, James Corless, Laborers' International Union of North America, LIUNA, Lori Spragens, PA, Pennsylvania, Peter B. King, Roger Wentz, Terry O'Sullivan, Transportation for America
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Aviation, Bridges, Dams, Drinking Water, Economic Stimulus, Energy, Hazardous Waste, Highway, Inland Waterways, Levees, National, Public Parks & Recreation, Rail, Recovery, Roads, Schools, Seaports, Smart Growth, Solid Waste, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning, Wastewater, Water Treatment

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Thinking Big, Planning Smart: A Primer for Greater Washington’s Next Generation of Transit

Friday, March 15th, 2013

COALITION FOR SMARTER GROWTH
Without Metro, it’s estimated our region would need approximately 710 lane-miles of additional highway lanes at a capital cost of $4.7 billion,1 causing severe impacts in terms of homes taken for highway expansion. Proximity to Metro is estimated to have sparked some $212 billion in regional real estate value2, and it’s played a key role in helping older suburbs stave off the inner- suburban decline seen in other cities around the U.S. It’s had a central role in the rebirth of Washington, D.C.

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Tags: Coalition for Smarter Growth, Washington DC
Posted in Congestion, Economic Stimulus, Highway, Infra Views, Local, Public Transportation, Rail, Roads, Smart Growth, Transit, Urban Planning

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Missouri DOT: Pothole Patrole 2013

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

– modotvideo on YouTube

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Tags: Missouri, MO, modotvideo, Pothole, YouTube
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Highway, Local, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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Montana DOT: Where the Wildlife Meets the Road

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Video courtesy of Montana PBS – Montana JournalThe series is produced by the students of the School of Journalism and the Department of Radio-TV at The University of Montana, Missoula. –MontanaDOT on YouTube.

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Tags: car deer collisions, deer, highway accidents, Montana DOT, Where the Wildlife Meets the Road
Posted in Accountability, Environment, Highway, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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Improved Highways: Conquering Roads – 1937

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

more at http://auto-parts.quickfound.net/ “Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.” Public domain film from the Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is […]

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Tags: Chevrolet, Jeff Quitney, YouTube
Posted in Highway, National, Roads, Show Us Your Infra, Transit

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