Important infrastructure projects currently under construction in the U.S. (2014, homes)
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Blythe solar power project
Riverside county, California
$6 billion
entire project completed 2016
1,000 mw (more than double the nation's combined current solar electricity production capacity) largest solar power plant in the world once completed
Devon Energy Tower
Oklahoma city, Oklahoma
$750 million
2012
850 feet Tallest building in Oklahoma and tallest building under construction in the U.S. outside of New York and Chicago
One World Trade Center
New York City, New York
$3.1 billion
January 2014
1,776 feet Tallest building in the U.S. and the western hemisphere once completed.Also tallest all-office building and 5th tallest building in the world.
California High Speed Rail
Sacramento to San Diego
~$45 billion
Construction begins September 2012
220 m.p.h. First 200MPH+ HSR network outside of Europe and Asia.
NextGen Air Traffic Control System
Nationwide
~$20 billion
Implemented between 2012 and 2025 Replaces the current radar-based air traffic control system with a GPS-based system.
Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4 projects
Waynesboro, Georgia
$14.5 billion
Construction ends 2016 First nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. for 30 years
New San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge (Eastern replacement)
Oakland and San Francisco
$6.3 billion
Opens for traffic in 2013 Once completed will break 12 world bridge records including longest single span of a self-anchored suspension bridge and most expensive bridge as well as becoming the first in five areas including the first suspension bridge with no connection between deck and tower.
Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion)
Nasa
$3.5 billion
Scheduled launch for 2016 on SLS (Also debuting in 2016) Envisioned in the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 to replace NASA's space shuttle fleet
Out of the list, which there are some extremely impressive ones, I am most happy about OKC. If there was any city left of a deserving signature tower, it's Oklahoma City. It really adds to OKC's rather boring skyline. Happy to see it almost finished.
Army Corps of Engineers finally upgraded the storm protection systems and infrastructure in New Orleans and South Louisiana and our coastline. Little too late..
East Side Access Project
Cost 6 Billion $$$
Serves : Long Island Railroad
Connects : Main line to Grand Central Station
Completion Date : 2016 Projected Usage : 180-200,000
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Manhattan Tunnels
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Lackawanna Railway
Cost : 30 Million (phase 1 to Andover) , 1 Billion to Binghamton,NY
Serves : Lackawanna line , and Future Amtrak Lackawanna Express
Connects : Lackawanna line to Morristown line
Completion Date : 2013 (phase 1) and 2025 to Binghamton Projected Usage : 4,000 Phase 1 , 40,000 Phase 2
DC Metro Silver Line
Cost : 900 Million $
Serves : DC Metro Silver line
Completion Date : 2013 Phase 1 , and 2016 Phase 2
Projected Ridership 76,000 Phase 1 , and 120,000 phase 2
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The Atlanta Beltline is a project to turn a 22 mile mostly abandond railroad loop around the urban core of atlanta into a tails with transit and new parks for the city. This will connect many neighborhoods that were very hard to get between befor.
Transbay Transit Terminal San Francisco, California
(The Grand Central Station of the West)
Construction: August 2010 through 2017
Cost: ~ $4.2 Billion
Linking 11 Local and State transit systems.
Includes 1,200 foot tower (tallest on the West Coast)
Includes California High Speed Rail (San Francisco Terminus)
Will accomodate more than 100,000 passengers per day (estimated 45 million per year)
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