FutureStructure Infrastructure
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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The current water filtration system was custom made over 30 years ago, and is breaking more frequently, needing specialized parts. The new system will upgrade the city's drinking water for years to come.
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Critical transportation projects all over the state are being shortchanged and threatened with delays because of the Legislature’s failure to find a way to fund them.
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While the technology of fracking has helped lower oil and natural gas prices, the nation needs to understand its scientifically true environmental impacts before the next fracking-driven oil boom occurs.
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More governments look to private partnership as new responsibilities mount.
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First unveiled by Musk in 2013, the hyperloop would speed travelers at 760 miles per hour through a network of sealed tubes, the passengers riding in capsules that would surf on electromagnetic waves within the tubes.
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The city is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help keep certain neighborhoods affordable. But it might be making things worse.
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Five buses will be outfitted with Mobileye Shield+ system, which uses four sensors placed on each side of the vehicle to detect incoming traffic and avoid collisions.
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It's a daunting technical challenge. But the key question is whether such engineering is socially acceptable.
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Can a booming city known for laissez-faire zoning become a U.S. model for equitable urban growth?
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If there is one potentially positive side effect of the situation, it could be that all the media attention shines a light on the larger water infrastructure problems the U.S. faces.
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The historic drought in California has caused lawmakers to establish several water conservation measures including bans on running sprinklers after rain and hosing down driveways.
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With an ever-expanding market of available alternative-fuel vehicles, one state agency in California is seeing new opportunities to go green.
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Ernest Moniz said recently that energy security remains a major issue, and noted that America’s oil production is up, but the nation remains an importer, making the energy insecurity of other nations an important international issue as well.
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Fresno, Calif., has agreed to convert dozens of old billboards into electronic billboards, and will receive over $4 million over the next decade from their use.
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The two presidential front-runners share close ties to New York City, home of the busiest subway in the U.S., and have agreed that subway repairs are desperately needed and mass transit is crucial to the economy.
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Empower Chattanooga has already assisted more than 1,000 people with low-cost and no-cost ways to reduce utility bills.
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Currently the average residential Sonoma Clean Power customer pays 1 to 2 percent lower than PG&E and is looking to expand its service and pass on more savings to customers.
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Gwinnett officials have been cool to recent calls for a public vote on Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority expansion. But they have touted bus rapid transit as an alternative – without actually endorsing it.
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