infrastructure
Doctors Warned This Turkish Hospital Was Unsafe. Then the Earthquakes Hit.
Turkey has supposedly spent 20 years making its cities safer, but with earthquakes toppling thousands of buildings including hospitals, people are demanding answers.
A $100 Billion Lesson In Why Building Public Transportation Is So Expensive in the US
There's a plan to spend $100 billion fixing the Northeast Corridor by 2035. Similar countries build entire new rail corridors with dozens of new stations for a fraction of that cost. Why can't the U.S.?
Good Luck Playing Sim Nimby, the Game Where You Can’t Build Anything
“Housing? Surely there must be other ways to deal with the unhoused.”
America Has An E-Bike Problem That Can’t Be Solved With More E-Bikes
The lack of appropriate infrastructure for electric mobility devices is making biking in cities worse.
Minorities in Massachusetts More Likely to Live Near Structurally Deficient Bridges, Study Shows
The study is likely the first of its kind to analyze who is more likely to live near bridges in need of repair.
Why Doesn’t America Build Things?
Environmental review laws have become a favorite scapegoat among those who lament our inability to build ambitious infrastructure, but the problem runs much deeper.
Amtrak Spent 11 Years and $450 Million to Save Acela Riders 100 Seconds
Meanwhile, France built a brand new 210-mile high speed rail line with a max speed of 200 mph in six years.
NYC Says It Will Take 20 Years to Restore Park Avenue to Its Former Glory
The project is being timed with a massive $2 billion Metro North renovation, which runs under Park Avenue.
Rescuers Formed a Human Chain to Save People Dangling From Collapsed Bridge
The bridge collapsed hours before President Biden’s visit to talk about investing in aging infrastructure.
Which Car Will Better Survive Total Infrastructure Collapse: Gas or Electric?
No matter what kind of car you’re stuck in, being stranded on a frozen highway for 24 hours will suck. But an electric vehicle would not be any worse, and may even be better.
AWS Is the Internet's Biggest Single Point of Failure
Amazon Web Service’s outage this week has shown the world just how much the internet relies on it, and why that’s a bad thing.
A University Had a Legally-Binding Plan to Solve Its Housing Crisis. Then a Billionaire Stepped In.
The “inhumane” Dormzilla design, complete with digital bedroom windows out of a Disney cruise ship, couldn’t be done as a psychological experiment, experts say. So why is the university trying to build it?