| Asking the experts: 'Is the stimulus working for transportation?' |
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July 29, 2009
National Journal
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| This week's question for contributing experts to the National Journal's Transportation Blog is as simple and essential as it can get. |
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| A look at cloud computing |
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July 28, 2009
EngineeringDaily.net
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| From advantages to security concerns, EngineeringDaily.net takes a good look at cloud computing and its implications for engineers. |
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| New York's Tappan Zee needs more than a new deck |
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July 27, 2009
The New York Times
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| Bureaucracy and skepticism abound as this community and its leaders deal with an aging bridge, and the influence of new options that come along with rebuilding America's infrastructure. |
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| Stimulus projects quick to bid, slow to dig |
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July 21, 2009
Los Angeles Times
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| It's a middling period for the Obama Administration's American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA). For a while now we've known that the stimulus package was ostensibly a political maneuver that abused the infrastructure narrative as a means to reach it's $787 billion ends. As written in February (read: prognosticated) by Erik Sofge, contributing editor with Popular Mechanics, the emphasis on shovel-ready projects would greatly limit the ability of DOTs to allot stimulus cash to consequential projects, making conventional resurfacing and similar projects the only real possibilities. According to this report, only 35 percent of the first 5,600 projects have been given the "green light to start construction," and of the few large projects funded by ARRA, such as a bridge replacement in Louisiana, the majority are trapped in bottlenecks. |
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| Senate agrees on $27 billion bailout of Highway Trust Fund |
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July 21, 2009
Streetsblog
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| According to this report, "The legislation would send $22 billion to the highway trust fund, slightly more than needed to keep it solvent until the Obama administration's proposed stopgap transportation law expires in 2011.The nation's mass transit account, which is not facing the same imminent insolvency as highway programs, nonetheless would receive $4.8 billion..." |
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