Posts Tagged ‘infrastructure’
links for 2008-12-19
Friday, December 19th, 2008-
How to board a ship with low sides.
Santa Cruz Pod Cars?
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Firms in Poland and Korea are running pod cars on large-scale test tracks, and there are plans to build a system for Masdar City near Abu Dhabi. Here in the States, Ithaca wants to make pod cars part of a long-term transportation program, and officials in Santa Cruz, California, have commissioned the design of a solar-powered pod system that would run between downtown and the beach.
Wha? Really? When? This is the first I heard of it, even though a giant hundreds of million dollar low demand solar powered mass transit system for only a few blocks would be right up The SC City Council’s alley. Googling around all I found was some talk about about “ultra light rail” back in 1996(!) and the SolTrain from 2001. So yeah. It’s dead.
Infrastructure QOTD
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008John Gapper, Financial Times, 8 May 2008:
If anyone doubts the problems of US infrastructure, I suggest he or she take a flight to John F. Kennedy airport (braving the landing delay), ride a taxi on the pot-holed and congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and try to make a mobile phone call en route. That should settle it, particularly for those who have experienced smooth flights, train rides and road travel, and speedy communications networks in, say, Beijing, Paris or Abu Dhabi recently. The gulf in public and private infrastructure is, to put it mildly, alarming for US competitiveness.