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An animation depicting a wireless streetcar on Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information about the project, please visit http://www.baltostreetcar.org/. This is an animation that we first rendered eight years ago. We were asked to remove the electrification and replace the vehicle and graphics for the update. The Flexity vehicle model is courtesy of [...]
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Coverage of the 2012 MTA Santa House at The Mondawmin Metro Transit Station in Baltimore, Maryland. -Mta Maryland on YouTube.
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On New York City’s Staten Island: New Dorp Beach Residents Starting Over From Scratch Work On The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Continues In Rockaway, Queens, Resilient NY Residents Find Food And Clothing Beach Erosion in Ocean City, MD Assessing The Power Line Damage in Worcester, MA
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The worst is over from Hurricane Sandy, but now repairs and cleanup must begin. Take a look at the videos below to see how some of our infrastructure held up against Sandy.
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This is the eighteenth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
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Roughly one image per week showing construction of the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring, Maryland from 6/12/2009 through 12/21/2010.
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POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
We are particularly interested in examining the differences in employment resulting from different project types: those that focus on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and those that do not. Using an input-output model, we evaluate project-specific data provided by the City of Baltimore. We find that pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure projects create 11-14 jobs per $1 million of spending while road infrastructure projects create approximately 7 jobs per $1 million of expenditures.
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According 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.”
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