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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009High-Speed Solar Train
Friday, September 25th, 2009
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 […]
View this complete post...Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User’s Guide to the 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009POLICYLINK
“…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…”
TRANSPORTATION MATTERS – BOLD NEW DIALOGUE AND VISION NEEDED
Thursday, August 13th, 2009BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER
“The federal surface transportation program expires this September. In years past, it’s reauthorization would largely be a battle over federal gas tax revenue allocation between the states. But we face much more daunting challenges today, as our transportation systems fall increasingly into disrepair, dragging our economy down as their performance degrades…”
Re-Training America, Part 2
Monday, July 27th, 2009“The second of three installments of a documentary film done for a Political Science course at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, that examines the issue of transportation and energy usage, and promotes the diversification of the US transportation system through greater investment in rail and transit.” Video by Malcolm Kenton Check out Part 1
View this complete post...Let’s Give Americans a Chance to Own America
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009AMERICA 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…”
How Infrastructure Investments Support the U.S. Economy: Employment, Productivity and Growth
Thursday, July 16th, 2009ALLIANCE 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…”
WPA 2.0 Design Competition Seeking Entries
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009If you have new ideas for infrastructural-system design, here’s a chance to put them into action! Drawing its acronym from the depression-era Works Progress Administration, the WPA 2.0 competition aims to discover and develop innovative and imaginative ideas for 21st century infrastructural systems. This UCLA-based competition encourages entrants to explore the potential of infrastructure projects […]
View this complete post...Transportation for the Future
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Video by Colin McCullough “We made this video for the US PIRG video contest, which asks ‘What is your vision of sustainable transportation of the future?’ Public transportation will play a major role, but no realistic vision of transportation should leave out electric cars and trucks.”
View this complete post...Job Impacts of Spending on Public Transportation: An Update
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
“Looking across the entire $47 billion spent on public transportation in the US each year, there is an average rate of approximately 36,000 jobs per billion dollars of public transportation spending (i.e., 36 jobs per million dollars of spending).”
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