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In St. Louis, MO, major cuts in bus service this spring left workers, students, disabled people, and elderly residents stranded and feeling bereft. Stuart and Dianne Falk, who are both in wheelchairs, told CNN they no longer would be able to get to the gym or the downtown theater company where they volunteer. “To be saddled, to be imprisoned, that is what it is going to feeling like,” Stuart Falk said…
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Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010AWEA YEAR END 2009 MARKET REPORT
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010The U.S. wind industry broke all previous records by installing close to 10,000 megawatts of new generating capacity in 2009 thanks to Recovery Act incentives. The total installed capacity in the U.S. is now over 35,000 MW. In 2009, 38 manufacturing facilities were brought online, announced or expanded…
View this complete Infra Views post...FUTURE MOBILITY IN CALIFORNIA: The Condition, Use and Funding of California’s Roads, Bridges and Transit System
Thursday, January 21st, 2010California faces an estimated annual transportation funding shortfall of $10.9 billion to improve the state’s roads, bridges and public transportation systems. The state’s residents incur a significant cost as a result of roads and highways being congested, deteriorated or lacking some desirable safety features. A failure to eliminate or reduce the state’s transportation funding shortfall will likely increase these costs incurred by Californians…
View this complete Infra Views post...Transportation, Small Towns, and Rural Communities
Thursday, January 14th, 2010TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
Access to jobs, schools, shopping, and critical community services is vital for Americans living in small cities and towns, and rural communities. But all too often there aren’t options for getting around, forcing families to drive long distances on poorly maintained roads to reach everyday destinations. By failing to preserve our existing transportation network and harness the power of new technologies, we are leaving millions of Americans isolated from economic opportunity…
So, You Live Behind a Levee! What you should know to protect your home and loved ones from floods
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Most people know that levees are structures built near rivers and lakes to reduce the risk of flooding. But what does it mean to live behind a levee? How much protection does a levee really provide? What do you need to know to remain as safe as possible?
Busiest Rail Corridor in the Country Excluded from Largest Grants of Rail Stimulus Money
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION
Competition is heating up over the federal government’s $8 billion high-speed rail program, with grants due to be announced in early 2010. Leading contenders for the largest category of funding - “Track 2-Programs” for rail corridors, as opposed to site-specific projects - include corridors in California, Florida, North Carolina and the Midwest, among other smaller routes in the Northeast like the Philadelphia-Harrisburg, New York-Albany, and New Haven-Springfield.
Transportation Adaptation to Global Climate Change
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER
Rising sea levels, greater weather variability, and more extreme weather events like hurricanes, permafrost thawing, and melting Arctic sea ice are just some of the important changes that will impact transportation networks and infrastructure. Coastal areas are particularly vulnerable. A large portion of the nation’s transportation infrastructure is in coastal zones: nearly half of the U.S. population lives within fifty miles of the coast, and many roads, rail lines, and airports were built at or near water’s edge to take advantage of available right-of-way and land. Increasingly intense storm activity and surges, exacerbated by rising sea levels, are putting an ever-increasing range of this coastal infrastructure at risk…
Sick Schools 2009: America’s Continuing Environmental Health Crisis for Children
Thursday, December 17th, 2009HEALTHY SCHOOLS NETWORK
We know that healthy school buildings contribute to student learning, reduce health and operating costs, and ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.
However, 55 million of our children attend public and private K-12 schools where poor air quality, hazardous chemicals and other unhealthy conditions make students (and their teachers) sick and handicap their ability [...]
AASHTO Survey of the States: 9,500 Ready-to-Go Transportation Projects
Friday, December 11th, 2009AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS
“We need to keep the momentum going. The unemployment rate in the construction trades today
exceeds 18 percent. There is still a need to invest more in transportation projects if that’s what it
takes to create jobs and bring unemployment down. What the state DOTs have done over the past
eight months to put economic recovery dollars to work shows there is no better way to create jobs
and long-lasting benefits in every part of the country.”
Recovery Act Funding Will Upgrade the Electrical Grid, Save Energy and Create Jobs
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
At an event in Columbus, Ohio this afternoon, Secretary Chu announced that the Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that will help build a smarter, more efficient, more resilient electrical grid. These 32 demonstration projects, which include large-scale energy storage, smart meters, distribution and transmission system monitoring devices, and a range of other smart technologies, will act as models for deploying integrated Smart Grid systems on a broader scale. This funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be leveraged with $1 billion in funds from the private sector to support more than $1.6 billion in total Smart Grid projects nationally…
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