John Hennessy III,
P.E.
Wednesday, Jan. 13th
Steve Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA.org, & Governor Edward G. Rendell, Building America’s Future, discussed infrastructure with WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer. Excerpts are available below, and you can listen to the entire program under “Infrastructure Matters” on WNYC.org.
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Steve from Brooklyn
“I travel back and forth to Baltimore and Boston for work, and I prefer trains to planes. What’s going on with the high speed trains in the Northeast? When can I take a high speed train to Maine?”
Lorraine from Westchester
“Lots of talk about money for schools, but not so much about the buildings themselves. My school had has heating problems since October. Teachers and students are wearing their coats indoors and we are told to “send memos” to various administrators! It’s been a very cold winter.”
Felix Rohatyn has served as a managing director at investment firm Lazard Frères & Co, an advisor to Lehman Brothers, and U.S. Ambassador to France. From 1975 to 1993, he was chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation of the City of New York, and is largely credited with saving New York City from bankruptcy during […]
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Robert D. Yaro is the President of Regional Plan Association, America’s oldest independent metropolitan policy, research and advocacy group. Mr. Yaro co-chairs the Empire State Alliance and the Friends of Moynihan Station, and is Vice President of the Forum of Urban Design. He serves on Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability Advisory Board, which helped prepare PlaNYC 2030, New York City’s new long-range sustainability plan. Since 2001 Mr. Yaro has been Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts…
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“Chalk up more bikeway innovation to the folks at the NYC Department of Transportation. Now nearly complete, the Sands Street approach to the Manhattan Bridge is now safer and more enjoyable thanks to a first-of-its-kind in NYC: a center-median, two-way, protected bike path. Frankly, the facility is a perfect solution to counter the dangers posed by a tangle of roads and highway on-ramps that burden the area. Dramatic before and afters tell the delicious story…”
View this complete post...Recently, we posed the question: Could congestion pricing lead to free transit?
Civic activist and noted labor relations attorney Ted Kheel, and energy-policy analyst and transport economist Charles Komanoff, promise commuters in the NYC area free buses, drastically reduced subway fares, reduced peak-hour congestion, faster bus service and more. They used their “Balanced Transportation Analyzer (BTA)”
In this video, Komanoff explains the BTA, with an introduction by “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz, the noted traffic and transportation engineer.
View this complete post...Put forth by civic activist and noted labor relations attorney Ted Kheel, and energy-policy analyst and transport economist Charles Komanoff, the Kheel-Komanoff Plan promises commuters in the NYC area free buses, drastically reduced subway fares, reduced peak-hour congestion, faster bus service and more.
How did Kheel and Komanoff find their perfect balance? They used the “Balanced Transportation Analyzer (BTA)”, a modeling system (of their own design) that takes into account dozens of variables and predicts their effect on the daily commute…
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Completed 1917, passes below east new york, Brooklyn and is no longer in service. photo: Jeremy Blakeslee
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