Infrastructure
Seattle Struggles To Fund Sidewalks
More than 650 miles of Seattle streets have no sidewalks, and residents are demanding them. But with limited transportation funding, the city is struggling to find ways to pay for sidewalk construction.
Is Transportation Infrastructure The Basis Of A North American Union?
Plans to construct a trans-Texas highway corridor have theorists speculating that this transportation infrastructure is the first step in a secret plan to create a North American union between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
Suburban Officials Try To Build Sidewalks Amid Local Opposition
Facing residential opposition, city officials in suburban Minneapolis are having trouble getting sidewalks built in many neighborhoods. The residents argue that sidewalks are not needed in the suburbs.
New Weight Tax Suggested To Repair American Roads & Bridges
Columnist Neil Peirce writes on the need to address the road infrastructure crisis illustrated by the I-35W bridge collapse. Rather than boosting the federal gas tax, he advocates a 'Big New Tax' based on 'weight per wheel' of new vehicles.
New Orleans Pump Testing Could Result In Reduced Flood Risk
The Army Corps of Engineers is testing the pumps on an isolated section of a canal in New Orleans to see if water can be pumped from the canal to nearby Lake Pontchartrain faster -- a development that could minimize flooding during future hurricanes.
Bridge Collapse In China Raises Concerns About Rushed Development
The bridge collapse that killed at least 36 people this week in China is being blamed on rushed construction and the larger issue of the country's emphasis on rapid economic growth.
Bridge Collapse May Clear Budget Roadblocks
A history of speedbumps have hindered transit funding in Minnesota, but after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, the state's roads may finally get the maintenance money they need.
Longer Lives Of Big Infrastructure
The country is stocked with antiquated infrastructure, but this piece from The New York Times says that some of it is only old because it was built to last.
Bush Nixes Gas Tax Increase For Bridge Repair
The chair of the House Transportation Committee had barely released his call for an increase in the federal gas tax to fund bridge repair when President Bush stated he would oppose it, claiming not more money but better priorities is the answer.
Sloping Sidewalks Pester Pedestrians
Car-oriented sloping sidewalks are upsetting pedestrians in Toronto, and they have called on politicians to look for a way to give the city's sidewalks back to walkers.
A 'New Deal' Needed for American Infrastructure
Maintaining and rebuilding America's infrastructure could cost over $1 trillion. What's needed is the political will to create a "Federal Infrastructure Bank".
Houston Pays To Preserve Historic Brick Streets
City officials have approved a $3.7 million half-infrastructure, half-preservation project to replace water and sewer lines beneath Houston streets that were paved with bricks by freed slaves after the Civil War.
Bridge Repair Splits Town In Two
A small town in Quebec will be cut in half due to bridge repairs. The town will be halved for more than four months.
Crisis Looms for Iraq's Grid, Water Systems
War damage, fuel shortages, insurgent attacks and a lack of regional cooperation is leading Iraq's power and water infrastructure towards a state of collapse.
'Small Government' Can't Maintain Infrastructure
A society that values lower taxes above all other considerations shouldn't be surprised when its public realm crumbles beneath it, writes Joshua Holland.
Crumbling Rail In Congo Seeks Private Investment
With few paved roads, rail is often the best transport option in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But the system suffers derailments, crumbling tracks, and trains in disrepair -- and the government doesn't have the money to fix it.
Consensus Elusive In Portland Harbor Redevelopment Planning
As planners move forward on plans to rezone and redevelop the riverfront and harbor in Portland, Oregon, environmental and industrial interests are clashing on how best to make it happen.
Modernization Threatens Historic Arabian City
In Damascus, plans to build an eight-lane highway through the middle of what is one of the oldest Arabian cities in the world have upset locals and historians.
Veto Of Infrastructure Proposals May Be Right Choice
This article from Time looks at the shortcomings of the nearly 1,000 Army Corps of Engineers projects facing Senate approval and a Presidential veto, saying the proposals will harm an already broken infrastructure system.
Limiting Local Trips On The Interstate
Transportation planners in Tallahassee, Florida are resisting calls for more on- and off-ramps on I-10, hoping to limit use of the highway by local travelers in a bid to prevent congestion.
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City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
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