Posted on Wednesday May 20th by The Infrastructurist | 493
- Imagine narrow European-style roadways shared by pedestrians, cyclists and cars, all traveling at low speeds,” teases today’s NY Times, in a story about the Bloomberg administration’s new street design manual. Yay, no more high speed pedestrians! (NYT)
- Tonight on the teevee: PBS’s special about how we need transformational change in our infrastructure. (LAT)
- With his announcement of new 35 MPG fuel economy standards, Obama seems to finally have gotten everyone from auto execs to green crusaders on the same page. (Ray LaHood’s Fast Lane, Free Press)
- Concrete rail ties are more environmentally friendly than wooden ones. They have smaller carbon footprints. (NYT)
- Would you pay 15 cents per mile to drive on uncongested roads? (Greater Greater Washington)
- A good primer on the many steps yet to be taken in passing the new transportation bill. (Streetsblog)
- American attitudes on global warming fit into one of six categories — from alarmed (18 percent) to dismissive (7 percent). (Yale)
- Team Obama unveils a set of 16 technical standards for the smart grid. They cautioned companies that they want to go full speed ahead and don’t really care if everyone agrees on the new standards. (WSJ)
- George Will tries to talk transportation in his latest Newsweek column. George Will is an idiot. (Matt Yglesias)
