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 state Public Utilities Commission approved a route permit for the Canadian-imported hydropower, but border-crossing approval from the U.S. State Department is still required.
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Some municipalities have begun digitizing lead pipe records for searching purposes, and others are attempting to map them, but the widespread lack of knowledge points to the anachronistic nature of some state utilities.
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The idea of outsourcing the university's energy management first was aired a year ago, when officials put out an RFQ, to determine whether companies would be interested in a partnership.
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A 110-megawatt project in Nevada will provide solar-powered electricity throughout the night with a fully integrated storage system.
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Local CIOs gathered in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Thursday to discuss what it means to be a smart city and how to position today's government for the future.
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How did lead poisoning become a persistent threat in U.S. cities? Lead paint and slumlords played key roles, but so did postwar housing policies that trapped minorities in crumbling inner cities.
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The route to economic growth starts by making our cities more productive — the bigger, the denser, the better.
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Rhode Island is likely the first U.S. state to toll truckers and use the money to fix its bridges, which are in the worst shape of any state.
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Despite their important-sounding titles, many of the growing number of “chiefs” in government don't have much actual authority.
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The legislation would allow utilities to set rates based on what they spent in the prior year, a change proponents argue will help update decades-old infrastructure.
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California's Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to uphold the drought regulations with plans to continue for as long as Gov. Jerry Brown's statewide emergency conservation mandates remain in place.
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The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund legislation is being discussed in the Upper House and, if passed in its current state, would allocate $100 million to any state that has received an emergency declaration.
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Urban planner Jeff Speck told city officials exactly what they need to do to make downtown more pedestrian-friendly.
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We don't always have to build up to fit more people into a city. Vancouver and Seattle offer alternative solutions.
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There are more than 5,000 structurally deficient bridges statewide. Slightly more than one in five bridges fits into the category.
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Other counties and cities have followed suit in recent years, including Santa Cruz County, whose Board of Supervisors banned fracking in 2014, and Mendocino County, whose voters banned it the same year.
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Although three Orange County circuit courts ruled against red light cameras, arguing they give police powers to a third part contractor, the Orlando PD has updated its protocols hoping to continue using the traffic tech.
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Financing public improvements isn't easy -- but nothing is more important for cities to prosper.
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