Midwest Will Raise Gas Taxes — And Make Everything Worse
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If Midwest states shovel billions more into highway widenings (likely), it could just increase maintenance costs and further undermine their cities.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bridges
Need to Add a Bike Lane to a Bridge? Experiment Like Pittsburgh Did
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The Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 conference took place this week in Pittsburgh. Even though the Andy Warhol Bridge already has a nice shared bike-ped path on it, for one week the city decided to put bike lanes on its roadway. It’s the simplest design you can imagine, just two rows of small traffic barriers and a little […]
Vitter Seeks to Cut Environmental Reviews for Massive Road Projects
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Bridges are getting a lot of attention as senators add their two cents to the upper chamber’s transportation budget proposal for next year. The Senate transportation appropriations bill includes $500 million for “bridges in critical corridors” (BRICC), designed as a response to the recent bridge collapse along I-5 in Washington state — home of Senator […]
Senate Offers a More Multi-Modal 2014 Transportation Budget Than the House
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Last week, a House panel envisioned some big cuts to next year’s transportation budget. TIGER and high-speed rail would get nothing, Amtrak would get slashed, and ixnay on all that green “livability” crap. (And that’s practically a quote.) The Senate Appropriations Committee voted this morning on the budget its own transportation subcommittee put together, and the end […]
T4A: One in Nine American Bridges Structurally Deficient
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There’s a new report out on the state of America’s bridges, and with it a new raft of disturbing statistics. Nearly one in nine, or 11 percent, are structurally deficient — meaning a bridge inspector has rated a major component of the structure to be in poor condition. The average age of a bridge in the […]
I-5 Bridge Collapse: A Painful Reminder of the Nation’s Misguided Priorities
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In a searing reminder that the nation has to do a better job of keeping its infrastructure in safe working condition, the I-5 bridge between Burlington and Mt. Vernon, Washington, collapsed last night. Thankfully, no one was killed, and the three people whose vehicles fell into the water were hospitalized with only minor injuries. Interstate-5 […]