Ford Motor Company has acquired the iconic Michigan Central Station and plans to transform it into the centerpiece of a vibrant new campus in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood that will serve as an innovation hub for Ford’s vision for the future of transportation. See the recap of the conference and how Ford is creating a new tomorrow together.
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The importance of the overall initiative is twofold: one is infrastructure. Public infrastructure lays the foundation for economic development, lays the foundation for recruiting new businesses and creating a sustainability for communities. More importantly at the current time, it’s created jobs.
In 2013, the Nevada State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 413 to fund critical roadway improvements. Since then, we’ve awarded $620,000,000 dollars, created 8,000 jobs, funded 225 projects, and employed 78 local small businesses.
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Portland’s population is expected to grow rapidly over the next 20 years. The city adopted a new policy to prioritize walking first, before all other modes of transportation. PedPDX is Portland’s city-wide pedestrian plan. It will prioritize sidewalks, crossings and other investments to make walking safer and more comfortable across the city.
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Each weekday, half a dozen bus routes carrying 19,000 riders travel the 1.2-mile stretch of Washington Street to the Forest Hill Orange Line Station. Most people on the street at rush hour are riding in buses. Until May, the bus commute was usually slow and unreliable. When Mayor Walsh and the Boston Transportation Department converted a parking lane on Washington Street into a pilot bus lane during the morning rush hour, all of that changed. Bus travel time improvements were noticeable immediately.
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The N.C. Department of Transportation captured this video May 30, 2018, near the Buncombe/McDowell county line where a mudslide the night before temporarily closed part of I-40.
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Electricity is incredibly difficult to store, so grid operators have to generate it at the exact moment it is demanded. In order to do this, they create incredibly accurate models of the total electric loads, that is how much energy will be consumed on a given day. But as utilities started to produce more energy from renewable sources like solar, the models started to shift as well.
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Andy Byford, President of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) expresses his admiration for the Big Apple’s extensive transit system. He promises that, along with 50,000 employees, the MTA will transform the subway, reimagine the bus network, accelerate accessibility and engage and empower employees to provide outstanding customer service.
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This video shows the options available for the public at the 2018 Annual Bridge Walk, scheduled for Sept. 3.
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Government and non-profit groups are teaming up to provide home improvement measures in communities near the Central 70 corridor. Many of these homes will bear the full brunt of construction on the nearby highway, and these measures aim to improve quality of life in the neighborhood during construction, and after the project is complete.
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Potholes, broadband expansion, crumbling bridges. Here we take a look at America’s infrastructure issues.
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