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Nice post OP. Dont see any improvements happening to add infrastructure to mid-south, but thats no surprise since some are opposed to any mass transit here, yet complain about lack of jobs or skilled workers.
-Miami Airport Link - 2 miles
-New York 2nd Ave subway and #7 extension - 3 miles
-San Francisco Warm Springs line - 5 miles
-Washington Silver line phase 1 - 12 miles
Light Rail: 127 miles total
-Dallas Orange and Blue lines - 19 miles
-Denver West line - 12 miles
-Honolulu - 20 miles
-Houston East End, Southeast, and North lines - 14 miles
-Los Angeles Expo and Gold lines - 20 miles
-Minneapolis Central line - 11 miles
-Portland Orange line - 7 miles
-Sacramento Green line - 1 mile
-Salt Lake City Airport line - 6 miles
-Seattle University line - 3 miles
Commuter Rail: 217 miles total
-Denver East line - 23 miles
-New Jersey Lackawanna cutoff - 7 miles
-New York LIRR east access - 4 miles
-Orlando - 31 miles
-Providence Wickford extension - 20 miles
-Salt Lake City Front Runner south - 44 miles
-San Francisco eBART lines - 80 miles
-Seattle Lakewood line - 8 miles
Streetcar: 15.1 miles total
-Atlanta - 1.4 miles
-Cincinnati - 2 miles
-New Orleans Union Terminal line - 1.5 miles
-Portland Eastside - 3.3 miles
-Tucson - 3.9 miles
-Washington H St & Anacostia lines - 3 miles
Projects to break ground in the Northeastern Megapolis over the next decade
Heavy Rail - 5.6 Mi
-Blue line Extension to Lynn,MA - 4 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 75,000
-Phase 2 of the Second Ave Subway - 1.6 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 250,000
Light Rail - 80 Mi
-Northern Branch LRT - 12 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 60,000
-Red line LRT (Crosstown Express) - 14.5 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 50,000
-Purple line LRT - 16.3 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 65,000
-Green Line Extension to Somerville - 6.8 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 60,000
-Extension of Newark LRT to the Oranges - 2.6 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 25,000
-Waterfront LRT - 4.5 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 45,000
-Glassboro LRT - 18 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 36,000
-Bergen - Passaic LRT - 5.3 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 12,000
Commuter Rail - 288 Mi
-MOM Rail Network - 65 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 150,000
-West Trenton line - 28.5 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 8,900
-Lehigh Valley Network - 44 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 50,000
-Northwest link - 63 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 14,000
-New Milford Extension - 11 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 6,200
-South Coast Rail Network - 50 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 70,000
-Newtown line - 12 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 15,000
-Quakertown line - 15 mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 26,000
Shephard's flat project
Arlington Oregon
$2 billion
completed 2012
845 mw (power 235,000 homes) largest wind farm in the world once completed
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.
Cape Wind Project
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
$2.5 billion
~2014
468 mw First offshore wind farm outside of Europe and China.
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.
Spaceport America
Sierra County, New Mexico
$212 million
Construction ends late 2011 to early 2012 World's first purpose-built commercial spaceport
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
+1 Rep.....for this "thread" its some fantastic reading...THNX
Atlantic Wind Connection
East Coast Offshore
$5 Billion
Construction begins ~2016; Completion ~2021
Will be able to connect up to 6,000 MW of offshore wind. First offshore electrical transmission system in the United States. First-ever offshore Multi-Terminal HVDC network.
Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project
New York City's East River
$20 Million
First phase completed in 2013
1,500-KW project uses river's tidal flow without dams to produce electricity. World's first array of grid-connected tidal turbines. World's first bi-directional tidal operation. World's first free-flow tidal turbines. First-ever U.S. commercial license for tidal power.
James Webb Space Telescope
Greenbelt, Maryland
$8.8 Billion
2018 Launch date Successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Will study every phase in the history of the universe. Largest and most powerful telescope ever put into space. Most advanced mid-infrared and optical instrument ever built.
Utah Data Center
Bluffdale, Utah
$1.93 Billion
Construction completed by 2013
Will store yottabytes of data (Entire world wide web only contains 1% of a single yottabyte of data). Biggest data complex in the world. Five times the size of the U.S. capitol. Will contain the world's fastest supercomputer. Largest and most expensive cyber security project in U.S. history.
The Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
$1 Billion ($200 Million)
Expected to open June 2014
A fulll replication of a mid-size American city. World's largest tech testing and evaluation center.
Zumwalt-Class Destroyer (DG-1000)
Bath, Maine
$3 Billion (Per ship)
First vessel scheduled for 2014 delivery. Most advanced destoyer ever built. First multi-mission destroyer ever built.
Construction of the EASTERN leg of the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway(now a tollway) and the western bypass around O'Hare. Other projects include and interchange between I-57 and I-294, and reconstructing and adding a lane on I-90 from just west of O'Hare all the way to I-39. http://www.illinoistollway.com/docum...ugust-2011.pdf
Thought folks may be interested in a few projects from the Upper Midwest. Surprising just the amount of money being invested in the worst recession ever in such a small place like Northern Minnesota.
$68 million dollar upgrade to I-35 in Duluth including: total reconstruction of north and south bound lanes, fiber optic installation, bridge repair and replacement.
Northern lights Express passenger rail from Minneapolis to Duluth. NLX was among 22 successful applicants picked in May 2011 from nearly 100 requests to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The project received a $5 million grant for engineering and environmental work.
In 2010, NLX was approved by the MN Department of Transportation to receive $3 million of the state's $26 million in bonding authority established in 2009.
$500,000 was appropriated by Congress for NLX in FY 2010.
$475,000 was designated for NLX in the FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.
NLX received $1.1 million from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in its first Capital Assistance Grant Program, which gave NLX one-third of the total planning dollars available.
$900,000 of Minnesota bonding was leveraged with the $1.1 million from the FRA grant to start the environmental and preliminary engineering work.
Under President Bush's administration, NLX was designated one of eight top priorities for development by the National Passenger Rail Study Group, headed by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
Local cities and counties in the corridor have invested more than $2 million.
Duluth Airport
The $65 million project includes a new passenger terminal, aircraft apron, entrance roadway and vehicle parking areas. The new terminal will bring the airport into compliance with post-9/11 Department of Homeland Security and FAA requirements. http://www.duluthairport.com/images/render_2.jpg
NoVa Neutrino Detector
North of Duluth: $283 million detector will study changes in neutrinos shot through the Earth from a half-a-mile-long “gun” at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. The 15,000-ton particle detector will study neutrinos — subatomic particles that can help researchers discover how the universe was formed and how it will change.
Here's the render for the campus of Florida's newest university; Florida Polytechnic University. The developer's decided to keep all other details secret.
Projects to break ground in the Northeastern Megapolis over the next decade
Heavy Rail - 5.6 Mi
-Blue line Extension to Lynn,MA - 4 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 75,000
-Phase 2 of the Second Ave Subway - 1.6 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 250,000
Light Rail - 80 Mi
-Northern Branch LRT - 12 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 60,000
-Red line LRT (Crosstown Express) - 14.5 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 50,000
-Purple line LRT - 16.3 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 65,000
-Green Line Extension to Somerville - 6.8 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 60,000
-Extension of Newark LRT to the Oranges - 2.6 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 25,000
-Waterfront LRT - 4.5 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 45,000
-Glassboro LRT - 18 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 36,000
-Bergen - Passaic LRT - 5.3 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 12,000
Commuter Rail - 288 Mi
-MOM Rail Network - 65 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 150,000
-West Trenton line - 28.5 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 8,900
-Lehigh Valley Network - 44 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 50,000
-Northwest link - 63 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 14,000
-New Milford Extension - 11 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 6,200
-South Coast Rail Network - 50 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 70,000
-Newtown line - 12 Mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 15,000
-Quakertown line - 15 mi - Projected Daily Ridership : 26,000
None of those projects in the Philly area are going to happen. This list is very optimistic to say the least. The only projects that matter are those that have broken ground.
Utah Data Center
Bluffdale, Utah
$1.93 Billion
Construction completed by 2013
Will store yottabytes of data (Entire world wide web only contains 1% of a single yottabyte of data). Biggest data complex in the world. Five times the size of the U.S. capitol. Will contain the world's fastest supercomputer. Largest and most expensive cyber security project in U.S. history.
I saw this. Impressive, but say goodbye to the last remaining shreds of democracy we have, heh.
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