Multiple Angles of the Fairfax Bridge demolition in Riverside, Missouri on January 16, 2015.
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Riverside, MO: Fairfax Bridge Demolition Videos
Friday, January 23rd, 2015Virginia DOT: Shirley Highway After 65 Years
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015Take a walk with VDOT down Memory Lane to see what Shirley Highway, now Interstate 395, in northern Virginia used to be like.
View this complete post...New York City: The Importance of Transportation Infrastructure
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015Transportation-oriented development has made NYC and the region what we are today. The MTA and NYC Real Estate are partners in that tradition. Listen to REBNY Chairman, Rob Speyer, Thomas F. Prendergast, Chairman, CEO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Polly Trottenberg, Commissioner, NYC Department of Transportation, Mitchell L. Moss of New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning discuss major transportation upgrades and challenges.
View this complete post...Georgia Infrastructure Funding Needs
Monday, January 19th, 2015JOINT STUDY COMMITTEE ON CRITICAL TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING, GEORGIA
Like many other states, Georgia is faced with a growing crisis with regard to funding the construction, repair, and maintenance of its transportation infrastructure. Georgia primarily funds its transportation needs with a combination of state motor fuel taxes and federal funds.
South Carolina Transportation by the Numbers
Friday, January 16th, 2015TRIP
South Carolina must improve its system of roads, highways and bridges to foster economic growth and keep businesses in the state. In addition to economic growth, transportation improvements are needed to ensure safe, reliable mobility and quality of life for all South Carolinians. Meeting South Carolina’s need to modernize and maintain its system of roads, highways and bridges will require a significant boost in local, state and federal funding.
Jacksonville, FL: Florida’s Number One Container Port
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015Jacksonville Florida, home to one and a half million people, is Florida’s number one container port…The city’s location along the nation’s rail and highway network make Jacksonville a natural gateway…The Jacksonville Port Authority, known as JAXPORT, offers shippers access to more than 120 million square feet of distribution center and warehousing space, including 31 million cubic feet for refrigerated cargo.
View this complete post...Arizona DOT: Progress on the US 89 Cameron Roadway
Monday, January 12th, 2015The Arizona Department of Transportation is improving US 89 between State Route 64 and the Little Colorado River through Cameron on the Navajo Nation, located approximately 50 miles north of Flagstaff. This project is planned to be constructed in two main phases, with completion anticipated in Fall 2016.
View this complete post...Louisville, KY: Bike Lane Confusion
Friday, January 9th, 2015As Louisville continues to become a more bike friendly city, drivers are having a hard time coping with the new bike lanes. The mayor addresses the public on the new lanes opening up, and the traffic rules that accompany them.
View this complete post...Jacksonville, FL: Overland Bridge Project Explanation
Thursday, January 8th, 2015Insight to what the Overland Bridge project on I-95, downtown Jacksonville, Florida will accomplish when completed in summer 2016.
View this complete post...Growing Local Economies through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
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TRANSIT DEFINES THE VIBRANCY OF DOWNTOWNS IN CHICAGO’S NORTHERN SUBURBS. Metra and CTA stations, and the development they support, help commuters get to jobs and run errands on their way home, all with little or no driving. Residents come together in these downtown station areas to eat, drink, socialize, borrow library books, shop, and see their neighbors. These activity centers are the brand, lifeblood, and drivers of economic development in these communities.
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