This documentary, originally aired Monday on PBS, takes a serious look inside America’s transportation policy.

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:

The new approach evaluates a road's environmental and social impacts by assigning points for such things as using local or recycled materials, managing runoff and providing wildlife corridors.

For more on this, read "Greenroads lays foundation for more sustainable US road construction" (Guardian, UK)

"Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, says that it could take Haiti 10 years to recover from the earthquake that devastated the island nation on Jan. 12, 2010. Kiremidjian compared the energy from the temblor to that of a nuclear blast."

MSNBC celebrates Ted Zoli, renowned bridge designer and winner of the MacArthur Award.

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