White House: Nearly $60B from infrastructure law sent to roads and bridges | The Hill

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it will invest nearly $60 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law towards roads, bridges, tunnels, carbon emission reduction and safety improvements in all 50 states…

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/3683145-white-house-nearly-60b-from-infrastructure-law-sent-to-roads-and-bridges/

Biden administration announces first major step to fight America's racist roads

Detroit's project would create a slower-speed boulevard that aims to improve safety by removing a steep curve and adding LED lighting, while removing 15 old bridges and two stormwater runoff pump stations and building out wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes and pedestrian crossings...

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/interstate-375-detroit-racist-infrastructure-rcna47912

Roads in the US are getting deadlier | Popular Science

"Zero is the only acceptable number of deaths and serious injuries on our roadways," he wrote. Because of all this, the new strategy document, released today, outlines five different lanes on which to focus. Those five different areas are as follows: …

https://www.popsci.com/technology/new-transportation-department-report-road-safety/

What’s in the bipartisan infrastructure bill and what’s left out – visual explainer | Biden administration | The Guardian

Bill maintains a large portion of Biden's proposals for roads, public transit and high-speed internet – but cuts some of the more contentious spending items…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/04/infrastructure-bill-bipartisan-visual-explainer?

Kentucky Infrastructure Road Trip Part 2

Dirty water in Kentucky. Mitch McConnell should be ashamed.
https://youtu.be/45WSOIT8gpY

Biden administration reinstates roadless rule for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest - The Washington Post

The proposal would affect 9.3 million acres of forest, including vast areas of old growth, Bill Clinton originally protected in 2001…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/11/tongass-roadless-rule/

Norway's Wireless Charging Roads

As electric vehicles become more and more prominent on our roads - and charging capacity more and more of an issue - Norway has come up with a clever, broad-view solution for its fleet of taxis, called ‘ElectriCity’. In the future, it might take in far more vehicles, too. 

The Nordic country has already committed to requiring all new cars sold from 2025 onwards are electric, and intends to build an entirely emission-free taxi service to assist in its lofty aims. 

With charging time an efficiency limiting factor for electric commercial vehicles in particular, they’ll be doing this by charging the cabs wirelessly, through the taxi rank they sit on, as the taxis wait to be hired. This saves in several ways: no need to hunt out an available charger, no need to wait separately for a charge and to be hired, and no need to even plug in or unplug when a fare arrives, all of which save precious time in which to earn. In the industry, after all, time is money.
https://youtu.be/oVEuOtRLNzc

U.S. has 230,000 bridges that need major repairs or replacement, new report says - The Washington Post

Bringing the nation's bridges up to par would cost an estimated $164 billion.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/us-has-230000-bridges-that-need-major-repairs-or-replacement-new-report-says/2020/04/13/499718c0-7db4-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html

America's highways and roads are crumbling — here are the 10 states that have it the worst - Business Insider

Roads in the US need some serious help. Even though states and the federal government spend over $400 million a year maintaining and building new roads, the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2017 report found that 32% of urban streets and 14% of rural roads were in poor condition. ....
https://www.businessinsider.com/worst-highways-roads-us-ranked-2018-10

These are America's 10 most beautiful deserted highways - Business Insider

Alaska's State Route 11 is one of the quietest roads in the US. GPS tracking company Geotab used data from the US Department of Transportation to find the least used road in each state. From that list, landscape photographer James Q. Martin ranked the 10 most scenic routes based on subjective criteria. Martin's picks span both coasts and reach as far up as Alaska. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-beautiful-deserted-highways-in-america-2018-3