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Guest on The Infra Blog: Samuel Schwartz, P.E., President, CEO & Founder, Sam Schwartz Engineering

Monday, October 25th, 2010
Sam Schwartz

Sam Schwartz has nearly 40 years of experience in the field of Transportation Engineering and Traffic Safety. He is considered a worldwide authority in traffic, highway, bridge, transit and parking systems. He was New York City’s traffic commissioner and the chief engineer for highways, bridges, ferries and other New York City infrastructure. Schwartz specializes in development of urban traffic programs utilizing his expert knowledge in traffic demand management, transit systems management, traffic calming and transportation planning and engineering. He has been in the vanguard of Intelligent Transportation Systems development and wrote the seminal paper, Intelligent Traffic, which received the International Institute of Transportation Award in 1985. Schwartz is also the author of Gridlock Sam, a popular New York Daily News column addressing traffic matters in New York City. His links with multimedia networks are extensive, spanning radio, television and the internet.

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PHOTOS: Ports, Ships, Canals and Cargo

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Port of Los Angeles sunrise - wirralwater on Flickr

A glimpse of our vast shipping infrastructure

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Denise Richardson, Managing Director, General Contractors Association of New York

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
richardson-denise

Denise M. Richardson is the Managing Director of the General Contractors Association of New York, a trade association that represents New York City’s unionized, heavy construction/public works contractors. Richardson has over 25 years of construction contract and financial management administration experience in both the public and private sectors.

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Guest on the Infra Blog: Richard Ravitch, New York State Lieutenant Governor

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
NYC Transit Ravitch Report

Richard Ravitch serves as Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York. He was appointed by Governor David A. Paterson on July 8, 2009. Prior to his appointment, Lieutenant Governor Ravitch was a Partner in the law firm Ravitch, Rice & Co. and served as Chairman of the Commission on MTA Financing, which Governor Paterson formed to examine financing options for the MTA. In 1979, Lieutenant Governor Ravitch was appointed Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), overseeing the operation of the New York City subways and buses, the Long Island Railroad and MetroNorth commuter lines, and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. For his work at the MTA, Lieutenant Governor Ravitch was awarded the American Public Transit Association’s Individual of the Year Award in 1982. Lieutenant Governor Ravitch is a graduate of Columbia College and received an LLB from Yale University School of Law.

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VIDEO: INFRASTRUCTURE ON FIRE

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

There was a fire underneath New York City’s Harlem bridge earlier today (9/20/2010) that caused a commuter train to be shut off temporarily. After approximately two hours, the fire was brought under control. There were no reported injuries.

According to a fire department spokesperson, the cause of the fire in still under investigation.

-itsgoingviral on YouTube

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Video: Friday at Grand Central Station

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Music from Star Wars

I think the song name is “Cocktails in the Cantina”
-surflliner453 on YouTube

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Star Wars on the Subway

Monday, July 19th, 2010

This is one of over 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed since 2001 in New York City. Others include the Frozen Grand Central, the Food Court Musical, and the famous No Pants Subway Ride, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.

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Underground with NYC’s 2nd Avenue Subway Construction

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Looking south from the 7-story stairwell leading into the current site, at 92nd and 2nd Avenue. Notice the boring machine on the right leading into the southbound tunnel. (Jake Dobkin)

The beginning of phase one of the 2nd Avenue subway tunnel – drilling between 92nd and 63rd. Photos and captions by Jake Dobkin at Gothamist.com.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
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Congressman Jerrold Nadler represents the Eighth Congressional District of New York. He began his political career in 1976 in the New York State Assembly, where he served for 16 years. In 1992, following the death of Congressman Ted Weiss, Nadler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election and has served in Congress ever since. He is the highest ranking Northeastern member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, an Assistant Democrat Whip, and the New York State Congressional Delegation’s representative on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

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