For a visual tour of the construction of New York’s Second Avenue Subway line, the Big Apple’s first major expansion of its subway system since 1932, check out CBS Sunday Morning’s video, NYC’s subway, still under construction. Amidst the obligatory interviews on the surface with planners, engineers, and inconvenienced neighbors,…
The American Society of Civil Engineers (“ASCE”) has released its 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. The Report Card assigns a letter grade to sixteen major categories of infrastructure – such as bridges, dams, and roads – based on capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, and…
Welcome to Washington DC. Federal officials claim the board overseeing the Metrorail line to Dulles is “dysfunctional, out of control and secretive.“ When art meets building. Local artists brought in to beautify a Minneapolis construction site during renovation . Wonder how much replacement ink cartridges cost. A professor from USC…
Time to revise the game plan. New Jersey officials re-evaluate planned infrastructure projects in light of Super Bowl 2014. Bottom line: be prepared for some gridlock. Oh, and bundle up since this will be the first ever outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather city. There’s an app for that! Bluebeam…
On July 6, the California State Senate narrowly approved the use of $4.5 billion in proceeds from state Proposition 1A bonds for transportation projects. Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign the bill into law. Full text of the bill can be found here. Senate Bill 1029 is intended to…
Perhaps they saw that Scott Walker defeated a recall attempt in Wisconsin and decided that momentum is moving against organized labor. Whatever the thought process, a log jam has been removed and a major project can move forward. On Wednesday, June 6, the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (WMAA) agreed that…
Maybe this is the ying to the yang of the American Society of Civil Engineers report that Paul Levin blogged about earlier this week. The Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young just published Infrastructure 2012: Spotlight on Leadership, in which they detail how state and local governments have decided…
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) just released a report titled “Failure to Act, the Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Electricity Infrastructure” and no, the results are not pretty. According to the report, the gap between the amount actually spent on infrastructure across America and the amount…
California’s ambitious plan to build a high-speed rail system linking San Francisco and Los Angeles has been getting quite a lot of attention lately. Although the plan has some high-powered supporters in Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and California Governor Jerry Brown, the level of enthusiasm in Congress has been…
We reported last month that Maryland was on the verge of modernizing its statutory framework for P3s, legislation heavily backed by Governor O’Malley’s administration. The proposed legislation was projected to increase the State’s capital budget by as much as $315 million and create as many as 4,000 jobs. Unfortunately for…