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Blueprint America - Spain: The Next American System?

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Road to the Future: The Public Toll
Road to the Future: The Public Toll
Short on cash and desperate to find ways to finance transportation, states and municipalities are now considering public-private partnerships to fill the void. In these deals, a private company will pay large up-front fees and will shoulder the costs of managing and sometimes even building a toll...
Air date: 05/20/2009 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1365243766/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Short on cash and desperate to find ways to finance transportation, states and municipalities are now considering public-private partnerships to fill the void. In these deals, a private company will pay large up-front fees and will shoulder the costs of managing and sometimes even building a toll... /episodes/get/1094 /episode/1094 Blueprint America: Road to the Future: The Public Toll /episode-player/1094
Beyond the Motor City
Beyond the Motor City
Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America's diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America.
Air date: 02/08/2010 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1409024983/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America's diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. /episodes/get/1079 /episode/1079 Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City /episode-player/1079
Singapore Curbs Traffic with Automatic Tolls
Singapore Curbs Traffic with Automatic Tolls
Singapore was the first country in the world to implement Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), an electronic toll collection system which aims to reduce traffic and indeed, less than 30 percent of Singaporeans now own cars. Despite Singapore's successes, as World Focus producers Mary Lockhart and Ara...
Air date: 10/26/2008 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1114493504/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Singapore was the first country in the world to implement Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), an electronic toll collection system which aims to reduce traffic and indeed, less than 30 percent of Singaporeans now own cars. Despite Singapore's successes, as World Focus producers Mary Lockhart and Ara... /episodes/get/1095 /episode/1095 Blueprint America: Singapore Curbs Traffic with Automatic Tolls /episode-player/1095
Spain: The Next American System?
Spain: The Next American System?
Norman Anderson, President and CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure (a Washington, D.C. based consulting group) explains how Spain has been able to finance its infrastructure build out, and what America has to learn.
Air date: 01/15/2010 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1386912017/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Norman Anderson, President and CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure (a Washington, D.C. based consulting group) explains how Spain has been able to finance its infrastructure build out, and what America has to learn. /episodes/get/1096 /episode/1096 Blueprint America: Spain: The Next American System? /episode-player/1096
Choke Point
Choke Point
Chicago has been a freight rail hub for the past 150 years, but an outdated layout often makes it a bottleneck for the country's shipping network. Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr reports on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Air date: 04/22/2009 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1113563932/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Chicago has been a freight rail hub for the past 150 years, but an outdated layout often makes it a bottleneck for the country's shipping network. Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr reports on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. /episodes/get/1080 /episode/1080 Blueprint America: Choke Point /episode-player/1080