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Thre cable TV service run by crimunals in Rio´s favelas was much cheaper than its legal successors.
Archive for the ‘Infrastructure’ Category
December 15th, 2011
November 29th, 2011
This past Sunday, I flew home to Los Angeles from Thanksgiving with my relatives in Montreal (actually, it was a bat mitzvah since Canadian Thanksgiving occurred six weeks ago but you get the idea). The Sunday after Thanksgiving is the busiest flying day of the year, with millions of passengers criss-crossing the country. And I [...]
May 29th, 2011
Category: Britain, Built Environment, Energy and Environment, Europe, Infrastructure, Technology and Society
A gallery of designer pylons and a British government pylon competition.
April 28th, 2011
Category: Built Environment, Energy and Environment, Infrastructure, Republican Party, Transportation, Watching Conservatives
The New York Times reports this morning: The Christie administration, lenders and a new developer have reached a deal to revive the vast Xanadu entertainment and retail complex, which sits forlorn and unfinished along a stretch of New Jersey highway after having burned through two owners and $1.9 billion, people involved in the negotiations said [...]
January 22nd, 2009
Smart Growth America’s state policy director offers an explanation.
January 2nd, 2009
Category: Infrastructure
The burden of road accidents, and two small ideas to reduce them - fluorescent vests and cat’s eyes..
October 30th, 2008
Tepid support for Californian high-speed rail.
