THE CITY OF NEW YORK: DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING
Report Dated March 2011
New York is famous for its dazzling skyline, iconic bridges, glorious parks, and grand avenues. But our global city possesses two other extraordinary physical assets: our waterfront and waterways. Four of New York’s five boroughs are on islands, and the fifth is a peninsula—and that translates into 520 miles of shoreline bordering ocean, river, inlet, and bay.
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Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012Google Crisis Map for Hurricane Sandy
Monday, November 5th, 2012This map displays information about current crises and events for which the Google Crisis Response team has collected geographic information. The data comes from a variety of sources, including official information sources and user-generated content. See the Layers list for additional details about each layer.
View this complete post...Infrastructure Weathers the Storm: American Infra Vs. Hurricane Sandy
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012Hurricane Sandy has tested our infrastructure in many ways. Users are urged to visit Show Us Your Infra! for eye-witness videos of the storm’s aftermath.
View this complete post...New York: Mass Transit Agency Cameras Capture Damage from Sandy
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) catalogs the damage left behind after Hurricane Sandy battered the eastern United States, leaving wind and flood damage throughout NYC’s metropolitan transit system. Flooding in Long Island Rail Road’s East River Tunnel Flooding in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Flooded subway station in Lower Manhattan
View this complete post...NYC: Before Sandy, Crews Prepare Penn Station for Storm Surge
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012Late in the evening of October 28, 2012, LIRR crews erected a barrier to protect Penn Station from possible flooding from Hurricane Sandy. –mtainfo on YouTube
View this complete post...The Future of Passenger Rail in America
Monday, October 29th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefsVol. 23, No. 28 On October 19, an Amtrak passenger train hit 111 mph in a test run on a 15-mile stretch of track between Dwight and Pontiac, Illinois. It was the first tangible return from a three-year $1.5 billion program of improvements funded under the Administration’s high-speed rail initiative. The program hopes ultimately […]
View this complete post...Atlanta, GA: State Road and Tollway Authority I-85 Express Lane Project Documentary
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012State Road and Tollway Authority: I-85 Express Lane Project Documentary from ECG Productions on Vimeo.
View this complete post...The Future of Our Transportation Infrastructure in a Car Crazed Culture
Monday, October 22nd, 2012By Jack Payton William Faulkner once bemoaned our country’s automobile culture by dryly observing that “the American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife, his child, nor his country … but his motor-car.” It’s been over 60 years since he penned those lamenting words, but if anything, our collective reliance on the personal […]
View this complete post...Electric Vehicles in Metropolitan Washington D.C.
Monday, October 22nd, 2012METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
This report seeks to provide a framework for establishing a regional readiness plan for the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) in the metropolitan Washington region. While total EV ownership in the region is relatively low (compared with other cities such as Portland, Oregon, or Los Angeles), consumer interest in EVs is growing and more EV models are being introduced in the regional market.
Transportation Infrastructure in the Post MAP-21 Era
Monday, October 22nd, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 27
Proponents of a more robust level of spending for transportation infrastructure ignore the political realities. With mounting deficits and the shadow of a $16 trillion debt hovering over all fiscal decisions, Congress is not about to vastly increase spending on transportation. Concern about deteriorating infrastructure has failed to resonate with the electorate during the election campaign.
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