Engineers are installing the two largest turbines ever tested at the laboratory, a 1.5 MW turbine manufactured by General Electric.
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Posted by Infra on Thursday, March 11th, 2010Seattles Link Light Rail The Start of Something Big
Posted by Infra on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Right now, Seattle is making as serious a commitment to transit as any city in the nation. Recently, Streetfilms got to take a tour of the newest addition to the city’s network — the 13-station Link Light Rail, which opened in mid-2009.
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Posted by cpatota on Friday, February 26th, 2010On April 8th, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York will host an surface transportation infrastructure conference that will bring together top-level business and political leaders. The conference, titled “Confronting the Crisis:Solving Our Regional Transportation Infrastructure Issues” will focus on regional needs as well as practical solutions going forward.
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Infrastructure in All Shapes and Sizes
Posted by Infra on Thursday, February 25th, 2010California Wind Turbines
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010The USA road trip blog: http://usa-roadtrips.blogspot.com/
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Storm water rushes through SRP dam
Posted by Content Coordinator on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010“A major storm on Thursday, Jan. 21 quickly filled reservoirs on the Salt River. The rising levels prompted SRP to release water at several dams. Waylon Johnson of SRP shot this video of the release at Mormon Flat Dam.” -SRPConnect on YouTube
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Pierce, CO faces water infrastructure challenges
Posted by Infra on Thursday, January 28th, 2010“Our water infrastructure is crumbling. Across the nation, a $22 billion shortfall in federal funding for water infrastructure projects causes broken pipes to discharge sewage into our drinking water supplies, and forces communities to privatize their water systems. The town of Pierce, CO is one such community grappling with these challenges.”- GoodFoodnH20 on YouTube
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Posted by Infra on Thursday, January 21st, 2010Written Comments from Brian Lehrer’s Radio Show on WNYC, with PA Governor Rendell and Steve Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA
Posted by Infra on Thursday, January 14th, 2010Steve 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.”
Metro Transit Ride: Metrobus New Flyer DE62LFA #5449
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009“Welcome aboard Metrobus New Flyer DE62LFA #5449 in service on Route 70 to Sliver Spring Station. This bus is one of 20 purchased by WMATA to supplement their active fleet of artics. This is also the last of a three part order of 2003 buses from New Flyer of their Bus Rapid Transit designed A series.” - Nabinut on YouTube
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