America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
Tag: Infrastructure (Public Works)
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NJ Gov. Asks Biden To Block New York’s Congestion Pricing Effort
The plan would charge drivers who enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
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Kathmandu Finally Got Tap Water. After a Climate Disaster, It Was Gone.
A disaster that wiped out a decades-long project to bring pipe-borne water to Nepal’s capital shows the mismatch between slow-moving donor-financed efforts and rapid global warming.
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Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom
The case for a bill that pushes more of the good stuff to accelerate clean energy without so much of the bad.
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Three Ways to Build Back Smarter After Hurricane Ian
Big storms more becoming more common. That makes it crucial to take climate change into account when rebuilding.