Notices tagged with infrastructure, page 7

#Bidenomics Is Transforming America. Why Has No One Noticed?

The #Biden Admin has passed #legislation spending trillions of dollars on #manufacturing & #infrastructure across the country. “The biggest mistake we made, we didn’t put up signs saying ‘Joe Did It,’” Biden said.

Among Biden’s afflictions & miseries, his wormwood & gall, there are the insults (about his capacities), & there are the compliments unpaid (about his achievements).…To him the 2nd are more painful.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/04/bidenomics-is-starting-to-transform-america-why-has-no-one-noticed

Málaga's metro is - let's be honest - peculiar. Gigantic metro stations that you'd expect from a major city, complete with superimposed tunnels & platforms. But then the actual metro is underwhelming: just an average tram running every 10 minutes, or 7 minutes at rush hour.

It makes one wonder whether an overground tram network wouldn't have been more efficient. The answer is that line 2 runs below a 2x2-lane boulevard. #subway #infrastructure #Malaga

"...5 public transportation companies [in Kumamoto Pref.] will, from Nov. 16, stop accepting payments using 10 types of IC cards including JR West's Icoca and JR East's Suica"
"The 5 companies are facing challenges due to a drop in ridership [and high] costs of renewing the administrative contract"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241015/p2a/00m/0bu/011000c
🔸Feels like Japan's infrastructure is fraying at the edges. Similar vibes re dwindling postal service😟
#Japan #infrastructure

Pelješac Bridge in Duboka, Croatia

Construction of this bridge was once described as an "act of violence" against a neighboring country.#borders #politics #engineering #design #infrastructure #bridges #section-Atlas
Pelješac Bridge

Passu Suspension Bridge in Passu, Pakistan

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.#rivers #infrastructure #engineering #bridges #section-Atlas
Passu Suspension Bridge

Climate Change Key Driver Of Catastrophic Impacts Of Hurricane Helene That Devastated Both Coastal And Inland Communities [technical report]
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http://alturl.com/5n38k <-- shared technical report
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #hurricane #hurricanehelene #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #naturaldisaster #impact #climatechange #precipitation #seasurfacetemperature #Appalachia #damage #loss #infrastructure #deaths #rainfall #precipitation #flood #flooding #engineeringgeology #erosion #massmovement #mudslides #landslides #debrisflows #disastermanagement #prediction #mitigation #climatemodels #model #modeling #spatiotemporal #IRIS #winds #extremeweather #weather #storm #humanimpacts #costs #economy #SST #warning #weatherprediction #dams #reservoirs #loss #lossoflife

USGS Experts Responding Simultaneously To Two Major #NaturalHazard s
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http://alturl.com/4583e <-- link to article
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http://alturl.com/uzjvr <-- USGS Landslide Observations Dashboard
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #massmovement #landslide #risk #hazard #response #planning #spatialanalysis #hurricane #hurricanemilton #hurricanehelene #USA #water #hydrology #measurement #streamgauge #data #flooding #debrisflows #engineeringgeology #flooding #infrastructure #Appalachia #damage #cost #economy
@USGS

Vulcan Bridge in Vulcan, West Virginia

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.#history #infrastructure #disasters #mining #engineering #bridges #section-Atlas
Vulcan Bridge

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque in Santiago Tepeyahualco, Mexico

In the 16th century, a Franciscan monk pulled off a construction miracle by building a Roman-style aqueduct to save the town of Otumba, Mexico, from certain death.#engineering #infrastructure #aqueducts #water #section-Atlas
Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque

Mikel Jollett: "It's wild that the #hurricane response in North Carolina is exactly like #healthcare, #taxes, #infrastructure, and #jobs in that you have Democrats doing everything possible to help people who refuse to believe they’re being helped because some dipshit billionaire is telling them it’s not true.' #trump #politics

MVP #KamalaHarris speaking soon in #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania about building an #economy that will work for all Americans.

#OpportunityEconomy #MiddleClass #labor #unions #protection #security #education #training #infrastructure

#Vote for #KamalaHarris & Gov #TimWalz to protect our fundamental freedoms & defeat #Trump & the #MAGA #Republicans this #election.

#VoteBlue
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XokApnr_Cak

Tumalo Dam in Bend, Oregon

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."#mistakes #ruins #localhistory #engineering #infrastructure #dams #water #section-Atlas
Tumalo Dam

As the electrification of the Leeds-Manchester rail line is again put under review to see if 'savings can be released', what successive authorities seem to miss is that each time they delay to review (to find costs savings), they're increasing the cost, making the extent of actual savings needed to make their target cost reduction that much harder, until eventually, the delays themselves raise costs so much the project (perhaps by design) becomes uneconomic.

#railways #infrastructure
h/t FT

#Musk toured a kibbutz that #Hamas had attacked, dressed in a suit instead of his trademark occupy mars T-shirt, & offered #Starlink’s services to the Israeli govt. #Israel has imposed #internet blackouts & destroyed #telecommunications #infrastructure in #Gaza…. This summer, after lengthy negotiations, Israeli authorities allowed #SpaceX to activate #Starlink in one hospital in Gaza, w/more service on the way.

#Security #Tech #law #power #regulation

Though there is no evidence that the new inroads are aimed at anything other than gathering #intelligence, some of the techniques & resources employed are associated w/those used in the past year by a #China-backed group known as #VoltTyphoon…. #US intelligence ofcls said that group sought access to equipment at Pacific #ports & other #infrastructure to enable China to sow #panic & #disrupt America’s ability to move #troops, #weaponry & supplies to #Taiwan if armed conflict breaks out.
#security

El Deposito Underground in San Juan, Philippines

The largest Spanish artifact built in the Philippines and one of the oldest underground reservoirs in the world.#underground #infrastructure #waterworks #water #reservoir #colonialism #section-Atlas
El Deposito Underground