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Guest on The Infra Blog: Robert D. Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Robert D. Yaro is the President of Regional Plan Association, America’s oldest independent metropolitan policy, research and advocacy group. Mr. Yaro co-chairs the Empire State Alliance and the Friends of Moynihan Station, and is Vice President of the Forum of Urban Design. He serves on Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability Advisory Board, which helped prepare PlaNYC 2030, New York City’s new long-range sustainability plan. Since 2001 Mr. Yaro has been Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts…

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Find the Companies Near You Receiving Highway Stimulus Money

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Nearly 2,000 stimulus contractors have been awarded stimulus money for highway and bridge projects, U.S. Department of Transportation records show” reports ProPublica, the “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.” Check out the Stimulus Contractor Database they have created.

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High-Speed Solar Train

Friday, September 25th, 2009
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This story first appeared in La Razón on September 11, 2009. To visit the Spanish-language original, please click here. The rail, which will achieve 321 KPH, is designed such that only light propels it. Moreover, its hydrogen batteries and its conduction system will generate and distribute water throughout its entire length. All great cities of […]

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Elliot G. Sander, Former Executive Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
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“Historically, people have not cared about infrastructure until the part of the infrastructure that they have been depending upon to get through their daily lives suffers some calamity…”

“I think that the Obama administration wants to do more than it has done in the past…”

“There was some disappointment about the level of infrastructure spending given by the stimulus…”

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Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User’s Guide to the 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

POLICYLINK
“…the American people are suffering through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and the planet is approaching a tipping point beyond which lies climate catastrophe…”

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Let’s Give Americans a Chance to Own America

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

AMERICA 2050/ REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION
“Rather than adding hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt to pay for our long-overdue infrastructure revival, perhaps the President and Congress should consider an alternative path…”

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How Infrastructure Investments Support the U.S. Economy: Employment, Productivity and Growth

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

ALLIANCE FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING
“With the rapid deterioration of economic conditions in recent months and rising unemployment, public investment is back on the policy agenda—as a job-creation program linked to the need to revitalize the nation’s crumbling infrastructure…”

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Highway to Hell

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

LABOR/COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER
“At a time when the world is 1 degree warmer with at least another degree in the pipeline the proposed allocation of $27 billion for highways is an attack on the environment and science…”

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An Engine of Opportunity: A User’s Guide to Advocate for Transportation Equity in the 2009 Recovery Act

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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TRANSPORTATION EQUITY NETWORK
“Transportation policy, planning, and investments have traditionally put lower-income people and communities of color in the slow lane, leaving economically-distressed neighborhoods with few avenues to prosperity…”

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Infrastructure 2009: Pivot Point

Friday, June 5th, 2009

URBAN LAND INSTITUTE
“Infrastructure 2009 warns that short-term stimulus funding for various road, transit, rail, and water projects offers no substitute for a concerted long-range U.S. effort to maintain national prosperity…”

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