Infrastructure

Recycling Is Cancelled
Trouble in the global market means trouble at home when it comes to recycling. Municipalities are having trouble paying the extra cost for recycling programs as China stops accepting U.S. waste.

Google Doodle Commemorates Those Bumps on the Edge of the Transit Platform
Today's Google Doodle celebrates an important component of accessibility and mobility for the visually impaired.

Express Bus Service Coming to the Suburbs South of Seattle
New intercity bus transit service is in the works in King County, Washington.

On-Street Parking a Sticking Point for Cincinnati's Road Diet Plan
Liberty Street was once a narrow, urban street. Now it's seven lanes of unsafe speeds and pedestrian risks. The city has a plan to greatly reduce the number of traffic lanes on the street, or another plan that won't.

Study: Density Can Impede Growth
Size and growth go hand in hand, until they don't, according to a new analysis. Density might be the reason that synergy eventually shortcircuits.

Climate Resilience Plan Would Extend Manhattan
A plan to literally change the shape of Manhattan.

Deadly Flooding Follows Bomb Cyclone in the Midwest
Extreme weather ravaged the Midwest late last week and over the weekend, overwhelming infrastructure from Colorado to Nebraska.
New Leadership at SPUR
Alicia John-Baptiste, a veteran of transportation and planning agencies in San Francisco will take the helm of the influential planning and urbanism think thank.

Concrete’s Contribution to the Rise and Decline of Civilization
As the world becomes more encased in concrete, the detrimental effects of its widespread use are increasing in scale and severity.

Proposed Mega-Development Would Expand Chicago's Skyline
The One Central development would transform 34 acres over Metro tracks near Soldier Field.

Mayor Wants to Create Atlanta's First-Ever Transportation Department
The proposal to create a new department in the city of Atlanta devoted to traffic and potholes came in the State of the City speech delivered this week by Mayor Keisha Bottoms.

A Direct Line From Forest Management to Water Supply
Urban water suppliers have had to learn quickly that fire ecology is a major concern in maintaining a secure water supply system.

It Takes a Fatality to Remove On-Street Parking
On March 8, 30-year-old Tess Rothstein of Berkeley was riding a rented Ford GoBike in San Francisco's SoMa district when a car door suddenly opened, forcing her outside the narrow white line of the conventional bike lane into the path of a truck.

Proposed Gas Tax Hike Exposes Minnesota's Road Subsidy
After Minnesota's new Democratic Gov. Tim Walz proposed a 20-cents gas tax hike over two years, even leaders in his own party were caught off-guard, but one-third of the tax increase will replace the diversion of general funds to roads.

Where Gas Taxes Only Serve the Needs of More Sprawl
The gas tax, suburban highway spending cycle is both self-serving and self-destructive, according to this article.

Stormwater Project the First Public-Private Partnership for the Army Corps
A $2.75 billion plan to build a channel for flood waters around Fargo, North Dakota is described as one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the country.

Kids Still Aren't Walking to School
Two generations ago, most children walked to school. But the numbers have dropped significantly.

Managed Lanes Coming to the San Francisco Peninsula
State and county officials gathered on Friday to celebrate the start of a $514 million project to convert carpool lanes to express lanes and connect auxiliary lanes to make for a lane addition. The 32-mile project on Highway 101 opens in 2022.

Pedestrian Head Starts Key to Vision Zero Goals in Seattle
Seattle is working toward its Vision Zero goals, after a year in which most people killed by drivers in the city were pedestrians.

Missouri Making Hyperloop Plans
Missouri state legislators have created a task force aimed at delivering a hyperloop route between Kansas City and St. Louis.
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