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Harrodsburg, Kentucky: Double Crossover Diamond Construction – Looking South
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011America THINKS 2011: Corridors of the Future Survey
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011![screen-shot-2011-08-09-at-14131-pm screen-shot-2011-08-09-at-14131-pm](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/screen-shot-2011-08-09-at-14131-pm.jpg)
AMERICA THINKS
According to the latest America THINKS survey from HNTB Corporation, people are fed up with congested, crumbling roads and are looking for decisions from local and regional officials about how to prioritize fixing them.
View this complete post...Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind
Monday, August 8th, 2011![BAF: Falling Apart and Falling Behind BAF: Falling Apart and Falling Behind](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/screen-shot-2011-08-08-at-103334-am.jpg)
BUILDING AMERICA’S FUTURE
Rebuilding America’s economic foundation is one of the most important missions we face in the 21st century. Our parents and grandparents built America into the world’s leading economic superpower. We have a responsibility to our own children and grandchildren to strengthen—not squander —that inheritance, and to pass on to them a country whose best days are still ahead.
View this complete post...Florida: FL 836 to I-95 Miami, FL
Thursday, August 4th, 2011This video begins along FL 836 at the toll booth near Little Havana in Miami, FL and concludes at NW 103 Street (Exit 8B) on I-95 in northern Miami-Dade County. Along the way, you’ll see Miami’s only major freeway that runs east and west, the Downtown skyline, the new MLB Florida Marlins’ stadium under construction, […]
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Written by: Bruce Josten
For the sake of near- and long-term job creation, stronger economic growth, and enhanced U.S. competitiveness, the Chamber strongly supports robust surface transportation reauthorization legislation that addresses revenue shortfalls and includes necessary and urgent policy and program reforms.
View this complete post...Time Lapse of Construction on I-90, WA
Monday, August 1st, 2011WSDOT and crews are in the third construction season on the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass — Hyak to Keechelus Dam project. In this time lapse video, you can watch construction of the Gold Creek Bridges from 2010 — 2011. In 2010, crews installed 120-foot deep bridge foundations, and part of the animal under crossing at Gold […]
View this complete post...Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project (TRIP) Bonds
Friday, July 29th, 2011![How Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project Bonds Work How Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project Bonds Work](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/screen-shot-2011-07-28-at-15647-pm.jpg)
Looking to leverage private investment and an untapped market for tax credit bonding to rebuild America’s transportation infrastructure, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) have introduced legislation to create a tax credit bond program dedicated to transportation infrastructure. Transportation and Regional Infrastructure Project bonds or TRIPs will be a financing tool to fund the rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling transportation infrastructure.
View this complete post...The Rough Road Ahead: What is the Cost?
Friday, July 29th, 2011![What is the Cost? - The American Society of Civil Engineers What is the Cost? - The American Society of Civil Engineers](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/screen-shot-2011-07-28-at-121931-pm.jpg)
The American Society of Civil Engineers has released an accompanying infographic to their recently released report. “The nation’s deteriorating surface transportation infrastructure will cost the American economy more than 870,000 jobs, and suppress the growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product by $3.1 trillion by 2020. The report showed that in 2010, deficiencies in America’s […]
View this complete post...Atlanta Freeways At Night
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011This video is a co-production between Freewayjim (youtube.com/freewayjim) and myself and features the Atlanta skyline from three different angles along some of the widest, busiest freeways in the world. Along the way, you’ll see a panoramic view of the Downtown and Midtown skylines, the Downtown Connector,and the new I-285 runway tunnel at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International […]
View this complete post...Will Federal Transportation Funding Stop if Debt Deal Falls Through?
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011TRANSPORTATION ISSUES DAILY Written by Larry Ehl If a debt deal isn’t reached and the government defaults, what might happen to transportation funding? According to an analysis by the well-respected Bipartisan Policy Commission (BPC) there would be barely enough funding to pay interest, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, defense, and unemployment benefits. In another scenario, […]
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