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In St. Louis, MO, major cuts in bus service this spring left workers, students, disabled people, and elderly residents stranded and feeling bereft. Stuart and Dianne Falk, who are both in wheelchairs, told CNN they no longer would be able to get to the gym or the downtown theater company where they volunteer. “To be saddled, to be imprisoned, that is what it is going to feeling like,” Stuart Falk said…
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010AWEA YEAR END 2009 MARKET REPORT
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010The U.S. wind industry broke all previous records by installing close to 10,000 megawatts of new generating capacity in 2009 thanks to Recovery Act incentives. The total installed capacity in the U.S. is now over 35,000 MW. In 2009, 38 manufacturing facilities were brought online, announced or expanded…
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Patrick J. Natale, Executive Director of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Patrick J. Natale is the Executive Director, and Chief Staff Officer and Secretary, for the American Society of Civil Engineers
Patrick J. Natale on: infrastructure grades, lack of ongoing public concern about infrastructure, infrastructure and leadership, paying for infrastructure improvements, and the importance of government advocacy
View this complete post...Excerpts from The Brian Lehrer Show, with Gov. Rendell and Steve Anderson
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Wednesday, Jan. 13th
Steve Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA.org, & Governor Edward G. Rendell, Building America’s Future, discussed infrastructure with WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer. Excerpts are available below, and you can listen to the entire program under “Infrastructure Matters” on WNYC.org.
View this complete post...INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE SUBJECT ON WNYC RADIO’S BRIAN LEHRER SHOW – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13TH, 10:30AM
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Tune in to the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC at 10:30AM on Wednesday, January 13th, to hear InfrastructureUSA’s own Managing Director, Steve Anderson, and Governor Edward G. Rendell (D-PA), co-founder of the infrastructure coalition Building America’s Future. Join them for a discussion of America’s infrastructure and the need for public engagement.
The Brian Lehrer show airs weekdays at 10AM on 93.9 FM and AM 820; rebroadcast Tuesdays through Saturdays at midnight on AM 820. You can also listen to it live on the WNYC web site.
View this complete post...Busiest Rail Corridor in the Country Excluded from Largest Grants of Rail Stimulus Money
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION
Competition is heating up over the federal government’s $8 billion high-speed rail program, with grants due to be announced in early 2010. Leading contenders for the largest category of funding – “Track 2-Programs” for rail corridors, as opposed to site-specific projects – include corridors in California, Florida, North Carolina and the Midwest, among other smaller routes in the Northeast like the Philadelphia-Harrisburg, New York-Albany, and New Haven-Springfield.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Maya MacGuineas is President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is housed at the New America Foundation, and the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program. Before coming to New America, MacGuineas served as a Social Security advisor to the McCain 2000 campaign. She has also worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition and on Wall Street.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Financier Felix Rohatyn, well known for his role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City and an early advocate of infrastructure investment.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Felix Rohatyn has served as a managing director at investment firm Lazard Frères & Co, an advisor to Lehman Brothers, and U.S. Ambassador to France. From 1975 to 1993, he was chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation of the City of New York, and is largely credited with saving New York City from bankruptcy during […]
View this complete post...New York City Construction Starts to Show Signs of Stability
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS
“The two biggest sectors within the nonresidential category were schools, libraries and labs, which accounted for 35 percent of construction starts, and offices and bank buildings, which accounted for 28 percent. In both cases, the project starts were split fairly evenly between new buildings and alterations/renovations to existing structures.”
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