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This is the fifth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
View this complete post...John Hennessy III,
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This is the fifth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
View this complete post...U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
High performing infrastructure is the foundation for U.S. economic competitiveness in a global age. After all, America’s infrastructure—transportation, telecommunications, energy, and water systems—forms the physical platform of our $14 trillion free enterprise economy.
By all accounts, the nation’s transportation networks continue to languish. Numerous recent reports have called attention to the dire condition of transportation infrastructure in the United States. These reports have all called for additional investment citing potentially disastrous effects on the economy, from manufacturing to real estate and ultimately, to the nation’s global competitiveness. None of these reports focused on the performance of transportation infrastructure and the relationship between performance and economic growth.
View this complete post...Lexer Quamie is a Counsel in the Public Policy Department of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. At The Leadership Conference, she helps facilitate the development of a federal policy agenda for a broad coalition of civil and human rights groups and analyzes federal current civil rights issues and legislation in the areas […]
View this complete post...TRANSPORTATION ISSUES DAILY
Federal agencies will soon begin drafting their 2013 budgets. Last week they were directed by the White House to prepare a 5% cut and a 10% cut budget for their 2013 discretionary funding request, using the 2011 budget as a baseline.
View this complete post...So this is the second Part of a a several part video project. Over the next few years I will be recoding the progress of the New Dallas Love Field Terminal from the Continental United gates. (On a side not I’m sitting next to Continental Airlines 4th most senior flight attendant. She been with them […]
View this complete post...BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Americans possess a well-documented dependency on the automobile—and nowhere is that clearer than in how Americans travel to work. Over three-quarters of commuters drive alone to work, with another 10 percent carpooling. Considering that Americans registered over 133 million private and commercial vehicles in 2009, it makes sense that so many people would drive. However, there remain over 10 million American households who do not own a private vehicle.
View this complete post...Over the weekend, NYC was the victim of nonstop and frightening downpours…
View this complete post...SAFETREC
The public road system in the U.S. is the world’s busiest, sustaining more than 3 trillion vehicle- miles of travel each year on a network of more than 4 million miles of roads and highways. It has had enormous positive impacts on U.S. society, driving economic growth and innovation, providing mobility and opportunity to its users, and helping the U.S. maintain its global economic competitiveness.
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