From bike routes to busted bridges, you can get and give all kinds of information about the world of infrastructure using web and mobile apps. Here are some of the best ones out there to help you get where you’re going.
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Top 5 Infra Apps
Thursday, August 15th, 2013Who Pays the Cost of Fracking?
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA Introduction America is in the midst of a fracking boom … and a fracking bust. In North Dakota, times are booming. The state has rapidly become the nation’s second-largest oil producer due to the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (the combination of technologies used in fracking) to tap oil supplies from […]
View this complete post...San Diego, CA: Accessible MTS
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Accessible MTS from Will Suto on Vimeo. Produced in association with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and Accessible San Diego.
View this complete post...California High Speed Rail
Friday, August 2nd, 2013NYC: Working the “A” Train (1981)
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013–mtainfo on YouTube. From the New York Transit Museum archives, a 1981 documentary about the workers who make “A” train service possible. A production of the New York State Museum. New York Transit Museum: http://www.mta.info/museumNew York State Museum: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov
View this complete post...Salt Lake City, UT: A Conservative State Builds Progressive Transit
Thursday, July 11th, 2013
Salt Lake City: A Conservative State Builds Progressive Transit from Streetfilms on Vimeo. According to Congress for New Urbanism President John Norquist, the Salt Lake City area has the fastest growing rail system in America. And as Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt pointed out last month, “It’s the only city in the country building light rail, bus […]
View this complete post...MnDOT: Casting Beams
Thursday, July 4th, 2013Plug-In Electric Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY Introduction Internal combustion engine vehicles running on petroleum fuels have dominated the vehicle market for a century. Global demand for petroleum has increased dramatically over that period, and this demand, coupled with geo-political volatility in many oil-producing regions, has resulted in high oil prices and uncertainty in the market. […]
View this complete post...Mount Vernon, WA: Skagit River Bridge Catastrophe
Thursday, June 20th, 2013I-5 is a freeway that goes between Canada and Mexico through California, Oregon and Washington. The Skagit River goes under the road in Mount Vernon WA. A tractor trailer with an oversized load hit several supports on the bridge and down she went. This Video contains My Theme music which I own all rights to. […]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Leo W. Gerard is International President of the United Steelworkers, the dominant union in paper, forestry products, steel, aluminum, tire and rubber, glass, chemicals and petroleum. Under Gerard’s leadership, the 850,000-member USW has heightened its focus on reversing the alarming decline of U.S. manufacturing. He has worked to inject workers’ rights into trade agreements, investment […]
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