The Kansas City Star & McClatchy News Bureau today published a story that Trump's team has compiled a list of 50 top infrastructure projects at a cost of at least $137.5 billion. The projects would be private and public investments. The article states that it is not known if the list is final or a draft.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article128492614.html
The list includes:
The list of projects and some details can be found here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3409546-Emergency-NatSec50Projects-121416-1-Reduced.html
Commentary:
First thought, hey a subject I can follow and regularly on the blog. For the most part, this is a very diverse and interesting list including transit, highway, water, air and electric. The amount of projects devoted to locks and dams surprised me - but a number are close to a century old.
I'm going to be specific to the projects that I am that rather familiar with - Interstate 95 in North Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and the Chaleroi, PA lock and dam.
I was actually surprised to see the improvements to I-95 in NC included on this list. Although this is a much needed project, this would most likely be toll and we've been down that road before. Nonetheless, sooner or later something is going to need to be done with I-95 and most likely it will be tolled. If anything moves on this, we'll be on top of it.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from the shale gas fields of West Virginia to Eastern NC and Tidewater Virginia. I will be interesting to see if this will see protests similar to whats going on in the Dakotas.
The Lock and Dam project in Chaleroi, PA isn't far from where I grew up. The Mon (Monongahela) River Locks are very old and are in need for replacement/upgrades. I wonder if the project will include the removal of the Elizabeth Lock and Dam.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article128492614.html
The list includes:
- Numerous lock & dam replacement/repair projects
- The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (natural gas)
- What seems to be the widening all of 95 in North Carolina
- Replacement of 15 bridges along I-95 in Philadelphia
- The I-71/75 Brent Spence Bridge
- High Speed rail from Dallas to Houston
- A few projects in Detroit
- The Purple Light Rail Line in Metro DC
- And more
The list of projects and some details can be found here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3409546-Emergency-NatSec50Projects-121416-1-Reduced.html
Commentary:
First thought, hey a subject I can follow and regularly on the blog. For the most part, this is a very diverse and interesting list including transit, highway, water, air and electric. The amount of projects devoted to locks and dams surprised me - but a number are close to a century old.
I'm going to be specific to the projects that I am that rather familiar with - Interstate 95 in North Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and the Chaleroi, PA lock and dam.
I was actually surprised to see the improvements to I-95 in NC included on this list. Although this is a much needed project, this would most likely be toll and we've been down that road before. Nonetheless, sooner or later something is going to need to be done with I-95 and most likely it will be tolled. If anything moves on this, we'll be on top of it.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from the shale gas fields of West Virginia to Eastern NC and Tidewater Virginia. I will be interesting to see if this will see protests similar to whats going on in the Dakotas.
The Lock and Dam project in Chaleroi, PA isn't far from where I grew up. The Mon (Monongahela) River Locks are very old and are in need for replacement/upgrades. I wonder if the project will include the removal of the Elizabeth Lock and Dam.
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