Coalition Against Bigger Trucks needs advocates and support to push back against the big US truck lobby that is pushing for lower trucking standards and increased truck weight limits on highways that are incredibly dangerous killing thousands of innocent people and destroying public property for corporate profit and greed.
There is an opportunity here to take action to oppose these death traps.
"I foresee this as being a disastrous rat's nest. Here, roundabouts cause congestion and slower traffic because nobody knows how to navigate them," one person said. "I've seen people let go of the wheel and panic mid-roundabout."
"As I enter a roundabout, I turn on my 4-way flashers and repeatedly honk my horn. I reverted to hand-signals the one time I was caught in a continuous circle. I can't imagine navigating at night in the rain," another driver wrote in WSDOT's online comment section.
From 1973, Mike Wallace's report on Amtrak. From 2026, Jon Wertheim's report on the state of high-speed rail in the United States. From 2018, Bill Whitaker's look at the New York City Subway. And from 2014, Steve Kroft's report on how infrastructure including roads, bridges, airports, and railways are decaying all over the country.
New York Times Guest Opinion
Trucking lobby standing in the way of truck safety legislation and advocating for lower the bar for truck driver qualifications.
Three daily round trips from Denver to Fort Collins by January 2029!
To be named "Colorado Connector", no word whether it would be operated by Amtrak
Massive project, largest in Washington state, to begin construction in July with demolition of existing buildings to begin soon
10 Cabot Square, designed by Adrian Smith at SOM in the early 1990s.
This is one of the original Canary Wharf office buildings built around a phase one Beaux Arts inspired master plan and built out with high quality traditional office buildings in stone and brick witg ornate detailing.
London has been butchering and destroying its late 1980s and 1990s contextual 'Postmodern Classical' buildings for 15 years and now the Modernist generic glass grim reaper comes for 10 Cabot Square with a horrific gutting, reconfiguration and recladding. Two other similar style and vintage office buildings at Cabot Square recently got the modernist lobotomy gut job and recladding.
There is a campaign by the Twentieth Century Society and Historic Britain to list this building but rarely are they successful for buildings of this age and Postmodern Classical/Modern Traditional style.
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Will the dense urban growth in Miami eventually push the city to embrace transit by building out a quality rail and bus system and more importantly, create a transit system that more of the population embraces?
No doubt, there are huge cultural/class issues with transit in Miami as well as the city has been developed in a very car centric way even in urban areas.
However it also appears to me there may be a very slow gradual embrace of transit particularly with bus service in Miami Beach and surprisingly high utilization of the MetroMover. Ridesharing is very big in Miami, comparable to other transit oriented cities. It has very dense walkable nodes with expensive and lots of auto congestion. Miami has the 3rd most skyscrapers in the US.
Miami also has a lot of transplants from the Northeast big cities and also sees more than its fair share of tourists. The Metrorail system leaves a lot to be desired but is also the start of what could be a good system (hit Miami Beach, Little Havana, Coral Gables). Brightline, despite its financial issues, is very popular. Downtown Miami and Miami as a whole is thriving and growing.