Posted on Monday September 14th by The Infrastructurist | 800
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- With the timeline for the transportation bill now uncertain, transit advocates are looking toward a provision in Senate climate bill that would require 10% of revenue from carbon credits to fund public transportation and rail. (Politico)
- For more than a decade, plans for Moynihan station in NYC as a fit replacement for old Penn have languished. Yesterday saw an important step forward as Amtrak has agreed to move into Farley Post Office Building (aka Moynihan). (NYT)
- Doing what journalists should do, the NY Times looks at an alarming trend of Clean Water Act violations that result in dangerous drinking water. 1 in 10 Americans are now affected. In Charleston, WV, residents get chemical burns from taking showers. (NYT)
- New York City could be especially vulnerable to rising sea levels, says a new study. Civil engineers are looking at ways to protect subways, ports, and underground cables and wires. Not to mention the low-lying Wall Street district which plays such a crucial role in destroying global wealth. (WSJ)
- For those people who scoff at the drive to tear down urban freeways: Matthew Yglesias points to a study showing that a highway pushed through a central city causes 18 percent of the population to flee. (Think Progress)
- Two approaches to massive reductions greenhouse gas emissions: Build 100 nuclear power plants OR enact the aggressive building code reforms now contained in the Waxman-Markey climate bill. Guess which one is much, much cheaper. (Grist)
September 14th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Where is that picture from?
September 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Matthew Yglesias may be giving the right numbers, but the causality is unclear. For exmaple, a completely different set of factors other than highway construction may have driven city populations down, which in turn spurred highway construction to bring increasing numbers of car-dependent suburban commuters in. In any case, urban freeways are clearly associated/correlated with urban decay… I’m not sure I’d pinpoint them as the root cause, however.
September 16th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
It will be interesting to see how they make clear seperations between the Farley Post Office and the Moynihan Amtrak Station as prescribed by law?