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Highway Boom, Budget Bust: Are Misplaced Transportation Priorities Wasting Taxpayer Money and Squandering Wisconsin’s Precious Transportation Resources?

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

WISPIRG FOUNDATION
Wisconsin’s demographic and transportation trends are changing. But, state transportation plans are not. Wisconsin continues to spend heavily on new road capacity and highway expansions, reflecting a decades-old assumption that we are continuing to drive more every year.

This report questions whether the state of Wisconsin might be wasting huge sums of taxpayer money on unnecessary projects by planning to invest heavily in new roads and highway expansions that are out of sync with population and travel behavior trends in the state. On the one hand, Wisconsin’s population and its volume of driving grow at a relatively slow pace that has slowed over time.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: David Alpert, Greater Greater Washington

Monday, February 4th, 2013

David Alpert is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greater Greater Washington. He has had a lifelong interest in great cities and great communities. He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He loves the […]

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Great American Infrastructure: Oroville, California: Oroville Dam

Friday, February 1st, 2013

This is the twenty-seventh in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.   What: The Oroville Dam, located in California is the tallest dam in the United States. When: Initial construction began in 1961 & the Oroville Dam officially opened on May 4th, 1968. Why: The Oroville Dam provides irrigation water, flood […]

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Graham Counties, NC: Fontana Dam Opens Gates

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Sluicing Fontana Dam opens gates to a bold surge of magnificent force. The spray covers both the parking lot and the trees on the other side of the lake. Icy weather makes for a fine layer of black ice on the driveway into the dam. The road closed initially but opened while we were there. […]

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Portland, ME: Veterans Memorial Bridge Construction

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Reed & Reed, Inc. replaces one of Maine’s busiest bridges, The Veteran’s Memorial Bridge, over the Fore River between the Cities of Portland and South Portland. This bridge is a precast segmental bridge that is 1,610 ft long and supported by six piers in the river spaced at 250 feet, with shorter approach spans on […]

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Oregon Passenger Rail Interactive Study

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
ODOT has created an online interface that allows users to learn about future plans for passenger rail in Oregon. At any point, users can offer their input on plans and routes through a comment form.

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Jenkinsburg, GA: Track Machines in Action

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Part 1: The track gang takes out railroad ties Part 2: Getting the new railroad ties in place   Part 3: Get up close & personal with railroad tie replacement  Part 4: Keeping everything in its place Part 5: The finishing touches Watch more train videos by pwalpar on YouTube.

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New House Transportation Committee Member Will Advocate for High Speed Rail

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Transportation Issues Daily Newly-elected Representative Rick Nolan brings some real-world Congressional and transportation experience to his role on the House Transportation Committee issues. Nolan, a Democrat (D-FL) who will represent Minnesota’s 8th District, served in the House from 1975 and 1982. (He’s about to learn how today’s House is nothing like the House when he […]

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Portland, OR: Moving the Sellwood Bridge

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

It’s been there for over 87 years. But on January 19, 2013, the Sellwood Bridge was moved, 20 feet on the East and 60 feet on the West, to form a temporary span while a new bridge is constructed on the site of the old. – Mike Lloyd on YouTube

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Amtrak and California Partner in Pursuit of New High-Speed Train Sets

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

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CALIFORNIA HIGH-SPEED RAIL AUTHORITY
WASHINGTON – Amtrak and the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) are joining forces in the search for proven high-speed rail (HSR) train sets currently being manufactured and in commercial service that are capable of operating safely at speeds up to 220 mph on both Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) and on California’s developing HSR corridor.

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