Infrastructure

Aug 06 2014

Secretary Foxx Wants YOU… to Do Something about Infrastructure

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wants Americans to “get a little noisier” and demand Congress pass a long-term investment plan to rebuild the nation’s transportation...
Aug 05 2014

Infrastructure is the ‘Biggest Economic Incentive for Any Community or Any State’

Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood continues to sound the alarm for increased infrastructure investment. The former Illinois congressman traveled to Georgia on Tuesday, where he told state...
Jul 30 2014

Congress Still Hasn’t Made a Fix to the Highway Trust Fund

Good news for people who like bad news: Furman urges Congress to act on Highway Trust Fund "to ensure that work on our roads and bridges is not brought to a halt this fall." — Mark...
Jul 30 2014

UCLA Flood: A Real Life of Example of What Happens When We Ignore Our Infrastructure

Photos: Clean-up after #uclaflood http://t.co/5NGdDMWZc9 by @LATimesjlc @jabinbotsford pic.twitter.com/hTL6loHSpi #UCLA — LA Times Photography (@latimesphotos) July 30, 2014   Update:...
Jun 09 2014

The Made-in-China Bay Bridge Continues to Cost California

Wish we could say we were surprised. The decision to hire an inexperienced company from China to build key parts of the suspension span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will “haunt the...
Jan 23 2014
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Californians Trade Hard-Earned Tax Dollars for Broken Bridge and Potentially Criminal Activity

  Look, no one likes the guy or gal who says “I told you so!” so we won’t do that. But let’s just say, your friends at the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) are...
Dec 13 2011
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Why was this Manhole Cover Made in India Instead of the U.S.?

 Here's a random point of discussion for the day… Take a look at the photo in this blog post. It's a manhole cover on 9th Street in New York City, near 1st Avenue. ...
May 14 2011

Building the Brooklyn Bridge: A look back at 19th Century American Ingenuity

An iconic landmark, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in America.
Apr 30 2011
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Building a Better White House: A look back at the Truman Renovation (1948-1952)

In 1949, shortly after his inauguration, President Harry S. Truman closed the White House to visitors and launched a major renovation and reconstruction of the entire building.  Throughout...