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Port Infrastructure Projects: Interactive Map

Monday, April 12th, 2010
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According to a U.S. DOT Report on freight traffic, the number of trucks on our highways will more than double by 2035. Inland waterways, or “marine highways,” could reduce congestion by taking on some of the freight burden.

To make the port-and-waterway system more familiar, the U.S. Maritime Administration offers an interactive map, with information on current maritime infrastructure projects around the U.S. The map also shows inland waterways, interstate highways, railroads, and port locations around the country.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Thursday, April 8th, 2010
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Kathryn Phillips is the Director of the California Transportation and Air Initiative at Environmental Defense Fund. Before joining Environmental Defense, Kathryn was the senior policy advisor at the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT) in Sacramento, and a lobbyist for V. John White Associates. Kathryn also worked for nearly 20 years as a journalist. She wrote for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics, specializing in the later years on science and environmental issues. She is the author of two books about environmental issues.

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Delta Urbanism in New Orleans: Before

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

DESIGN OBSERVER GROUP
Overnight, Hurricane Katrina’s low barometric pressure and high winds sucked up a dome of gulf water and blew it north and northwestward into the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Louisiana deltaic plain. Shallow coastal depths reverberated the vertically churning water upward, further heightening the dome-shaped, landward-moving surge. Under natural conditions, hundreds of square miles of wetlands would have absorbed or spurned much of the intruding tide. But a century of coastal erosion had cost the region precious impedance, while a labyrinth of man-made navigation, oil, gas and drainage canals served as pathways for the surge to penetrate inland…

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The ASCE Report Card: A Final Thought at the Close of 2009

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

In 2005, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. The cumulative grade of D was the engineers’ independent, learned assessment of the nation’s infrastructure. At the start of this year, the engineers released the 2009 Report Card, and again, a grade of D was assigned.

Is this progress? Will 2010 present new opportunities that may be seized upon?

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The Waterfront Action Agenda: A Decision-Makers Guide to a 21st Century Waterfront

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

METROPOLITAN WATERFRONT ALLIANCE
“A working waterfront is critical to a diverse and vibrant regional economy. Water-
dependent business generates close to 250,000 good paying blue-collar jobs . But
this industry is being crowded out by real estate developers taking advantage of
rising waterfront property values. Measures must be taken to preserve and grow
the maritime industry…”

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