“…I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America’s roads and rails and runways for the long term. I want America to have the best infrastructure in the world. We used to have the best infrastructure in the world. We can have it again. We are going to make it happen.”
-President Barack Obama
Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania’
Video: Inside a Cogeneration Power Plant
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010A look inside a fully operational coal fired Co-Gen power station. The process of turning thermal energy into mechanical, and finally electric energy.
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View this complete post...NY/NJ/CT/MD train problems force more infrastructure discussion on The Brian Lehrer Show
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010According to InfrastructureUSA’s Steve Anderson, “We need a new pair of shoes and we’ve got to put the money in. We’ve got to recognize what our priorities are, and we have to demand that those people who we have entrusted with the management of these assets come up with plans that we will then agree to fund.”
View this complete post...Video: Philadelphia Skyline Sunset Time Lapse at Rush Hour
Monday, August 16th, 2010Shot on the Spring Garden Street Bridge over I-76 over 90 minutes on Friday, August 6, 2010.
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Three Modes in Three Days
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010From AUTOPIA, a WIRED Blog
Written by Jason Kambitsis
Case study of a commute: how cycling, riding a bus, and driving to work stack up in Pittsburgh, PA
VIDEO – PITTSBURGH ENGINEERING: Tales of Two Bridges
Monday, August 9th, 2010How do you get rid of a much-traveled bridge that needs to be replaced? And conversely how do you save a historic wooden structure that’s ready to fall down? You enlist the help of engineers!
View this complete post...Anatomy of a Natural Gas Well
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Guest on The Infra Blog: Thomas Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development, Urban Land Institute, and former Mayor of Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Thomas Murphy is a senior resident fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for urban development, Urban Land Institute. Since January 2006, Murphy had served as ULI’s Gulf Coast liaison, helping to coordinate with the leadership of New Orleans and the public to advance the implementation of rebuilding recommendations made by ULI’s advisory services panel last fall. Prior to his service as the ULI Gulf Coast liaison, Murphy served three terms as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from January 1994 through December 2005. From 1979 through 1993, Murphy served eight terms in the Pennsylvania State General Assembly House of Representatives. He is an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects; a board member of the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities; and a board member of the National Rails to Trails Conservancy.
View this complete post...Two Bold Predictions
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Two bold predictions concerning the future of the federal surface transportation program have caught our eye in recent days. Both have come from respected veterans of the transportation scene so they cannot be lightly dismissed as speculations of some anonymous bloggers.
View this complete post...The Good Haul: Innovations That Improve Freight Transportation and Protect the Environment
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but it comes at a high price for the environment and local communities. Moving freight creates traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic air pollution and noise in local communities. Without thoughtful infrastructure and operations improvements, projected increases in trade threaten to make these problems worse and place greater strains on the nation’s aging infrastructure.
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