And an environmental impact study on the restoration has been released. The revised draft details the port's plans to increase safety and improve navigation with a replacement bridge that is taller, wider, stronger and better suited to serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's busiest port complex.
From Singapore's Henderson Waves, to Lombard Street in San Francisco, Chris Sweeney at Popular Mechanics is the go-to guy for intelligence on the “strangest” infrastructure around the world. Over the last four months, he’s explored hundreds of bridges, roads, and now tunnels, with more to come. The following interview with Sweeney sheds light on his process, what he’s learned, and how stories like this can help support our industry.
With all the talk about high-speed rail this and that, this article begs the question of just who will be in charge of security for these high-tech transit lines.
February 3, 2010Rebuilding America's Infrastructure
When you think of the most influential people in the transportation and infrastructure industry — the people who secure funding, win projects, push policy, perfect methods, teach and research — who do you think of, and why? Please share your answers here in this one-question survey.Your answer(s) may be used to help our editors create "The Power List," a special feature-story in the upcoming issue of Rebuilding America's Infrastructure magazine
This hour-long interview with Moses from 1977, which comes from the archives of THIRTEEN/ WNET in New York, is posted here courtesy: PBS's Blueprint America:
