by jnguye60 | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured, News
While it only takes eight minutes to traverse the city of Lansing, Michigan, on I-496, the cross-town expressway, it has taken 50 years to begin addressing the isolation and injustice the highway’s construction precipitated when it sliced through a vibrant...
by jnguye60 | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, News
Sometimes the nation’s infrastructure needs are so daunting that the expense seems out of reach. Other times, a fix can be in a community’s own backyard. It just takes a bit of DIY. Consider Globe, AZ, a copper mining hub 88 miles east of Phoenix near the crossroads...
by jnguye60 | Oct 26, 2023 | News
Maria Tidwell returned to her native Texas in 2009 after years in New York. She got hired as a code enforcer in the little town of Gladewater, and started looking for what needed improvement. She didn’t have to look far. “We need everything,” she says. New streets,...
by jnguye60 | Oct 18, 2023 | News
This article originally appeared on Medium Supportive services can eliminate barriers to joining the workforce, playing an important role in promoting equity and diversifying the U.S. construction workforce, which has traditionally been largely white and male. Under...
by jnguye60 | Oct 18, 2023 | News
This article originally appeared on Medium State and local governments can now use their fiscal recovery funds to support highway and other surface transportation projects, including projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Last month, the Treasury...
by jnguye60 | Oct 16, 2023 | News
Eager to reduce fossil fuel emissions, the Biden administration has set an ambitious goal of building a network of 500,000 EV chargers across the country by 2030. That’s a tall order given that as of April, the U.S. had about 60,000 EV stations, with nearly half of...