Posted on Wednesday June 17th by The Infrastructurist | 211
- Virginia is dead last among the 50 states in submitting a list of shovel-ready stimulus projects. It will complete the process tomorrow. (AP)
- House Democrats are planning on a $450 billion transportation bill. It would create standards for highway and transit projects and consolidate the DOT. But how to pay for it? (WSJ)
- Language in the latest war funding bill allows transit agencies to use 10 percent of stimulus money to pay for operating expenses like salaries and fuel. This takes some pressure off strapped cities like St. Louis and will stem layoffs. (NY Times)
- Kansas City will spend $200 million in stimulus money to revamp and green a 150 square block area with mostly poor, black residents. It would weatherize buildings, establish a “green sewer” by planting trees, and possibly create bus rapid transit. (PolicyLink)
- In the DC suburb of Tyson’s Corner half the land in town is roads or parking lots. The city is midway through a radical reinvention that would triple it’s density. Time offers three renditions of how this might look. (Time)
- Shock news: The crazy plan to build a floating train to Detroit is crazier than we knew. The guy behind it has ties with an organization that says Hillary Clinton is a jihadi or something. (Transport Politic)
- A resort that caters to celebs like Kate Winslet is constructing a new facility within meters of the reserve of the Jarawa tribe, which has had very limited contact with outsiders. (Survival International)
http://www.survival-international.org/news/4663 - A freeway connector near LA and was damaged when a tanker truck full of fuel blew up on it. The inferno melted guard rails and made concrete crumble. The roadway is being repaved and will reopen tomorrow. (Long Beach Press Telegram)
Illo: Chris Dent for Time
June 17th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Those pics of Tyson’s Corner don’t seem like they are actually of Tyson’s Corner. Maybe the third one but I don’t think there is a green mountain or hill alongside it. Maybe 30 miles out on the other side of Dulles Airport but not there. Maybe it is just all the white lines overlaid.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:00 am
“A resort that caters to celebs like Kate Winslet is constructing a new facility within meters of the reserve of the Jarawa tribe, which has had very limited contact with outsiders.”
It’s interesting to see how a vague and attention-grabbing press release is made vaguer and more sensationalist: “once visited by Kate Winslet” is now “caters to celebs” and “about 500m” becomes “whithin meters”.
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July 10th, 2009 at 8:34 am
It’s interesting to see how a vague and attention-grabbing press release is made vaguer and more sensationalist: “once visited by Kate Winslet” is now “caters to celebs” and “about 500m” becomes “whithin meters”.
its even funnier that you dont know anything about what “civilization” brought to that area over the last 60+ years. from the japanese bombing hunter-gatherers during WWII (Kelly 2000) to roads for logging, etc. to bring disease, death, prostitution and alcoholism after land conscription and encroachment.
hopefully more people get stuck with arrows like those fishermen did a year or so back. its well deserved.