Apr21No Comments
Beyond Freeways: Commerce, Community, and Contention along Los Angeles’s 710 Corridor
How a freeway crushes communities, how residents are fighting back plans to make it even bigger, and what alternatives have been presented to yet more of the same…. Read the full article
Jan27No Comments
UK’s Largest Container Railfreight Depot Just One Year From Opening
Dubai Port London Gateway is a £1.5bn development covering 560 acres on the north bank of The Thames on the site of the former Shellhaven refinery near Stanford Le Hope. It has, literally, the capacity to change the Railfreight container business and...
Nov18No Comments
Bipartisan BRIDGE Act Bridges Infrastructure Investment Gap
Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2013) – General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – Terry O’Sullivan, praised the Building and Renewing Infrastructure for Development and Growth in Employment Act, introduced...
Nov12No Comments
In New Orleans, Obama pushes exports
President Obama headed to the Port of New Orleans on Friday to call on Congress to get behind his plan to pour tens of billions of dollars into the nation’s infrastructure, action that he says is crucial to bolster U.S. exports. The visit to New...
Nov12No Comments
Obama Promotes Ambitious Plan to Overhaul Nation’s Infrastructure
MIAMI — President Obama came to the congested ocean port here on Friday to promote his plans to rebuild the nation’s “raggedy” roads, bridges, schools and other infrastructure with a marriage of public and private investment. At the end of a week...
Oct16No Comments
Dawn of the super-ports? Mammoth ships force ports to adapt
On the northern banks of the Thames Estuary outside London, a soft tide laps against the perimeter of Britain’s latest multi-billion dollar development project. Situated just 25 miles downriver from the ornate splendor of the Houses of Parliament...
Sep24No Comments
The Golden Age of Arabian Rail
Until recently the Arabian Peninsula had long been a backwater for rail development. Despite hosting the now-defunct Hejaz railway made famous by the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia, until 2009 the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (the GCC) –...
Sep21No Comments
Are Mega-Projects Really As Bad As Everyone Says?
Pity the mega-project – the white elephant, the boondoggle, never on time, always over budget. No one can build anything ambitious these days, it seems, without being second-guessed. Most recently, Brazil is being criticized for its $495 million, 70,000-seat...