Blueprint America - Choke Point: The Third Rail
Choke Point: The Third Rail
Rick Karr interviews Edward Hamberger, President and CEO of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), about the state of freight rail in America today, as well as its future.
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Transit in Trouble, Part Two
Amid the country's economic crisis, some public transit agencies have found themselves linked to complex financial deals that have since soured. In the final segment of a two part report for Blueprint America, correspondent Rick Karr looks at the fallout of these arrangements.
Air date: 03/11/2009
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Nowhere to Grow
The NewsHour's Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez reports with Blueprint America on how the exurb of Buckeye, Arizona continues to grow with no boundaries.
Air date: 10/16/2008
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Web Video: The Streetblogger
Aaron Naparstek, Editor-in-Chief of the online transportation news source Streetsblog, in an interview with Blueprint America about the way transportation is looked at in New York City and the rest of the country.
Air date: 11/24/2009
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Off the Rails
Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr, in a segment on New York Voices on Channel Thirteen - New York, goes 14 stories below 63rd Street and 2nd Avenue in New York City, in a subway tunnel that the MTA (New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority) is building to bring Long Island railroad...
Air date: 12/16/2008
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Zombie Highways
What do you call a highway program that just keeps going long after its original goals were achieved? A zombie highway. Blueprint America and the PBS NewsHour go to Birmingham, Alabama, to look into the Northern Beltline, a road which will be paid for by taxpayers nationwide.
Air date: 08/11/2009
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