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Blueprint America | Road to the Future

Wed, 20 May 2009 07:44:55 -0700

"Blueprint America: Road to the Future," an original documentary part of a PBS multi-platform series on the country's aging and changing infrastructure, examines the choices we can make as the country invests in its infrastructure, and how they can affect the way we live.

Blueprint America | Slow Train Coming

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:03:16 -0700

Chicago has been a freight rail hub for the past 150 years, but an outdated layout often makes it a bottleneck for the country's shipping network.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.

Blueprint America | Cleaning Coal

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:03:16 -0700

NOW on PBS and Blueprint America explore if America's most affordable and abundant energy resource can be produced without an adverse effect to the environment.

Blueprint America | Public Transit Faces New Pressures

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:18:19 -0700

As the economy has slumped, Americans have increasingly turned to mass transit, putting new pressure on transit agencies. Correspondent Rick Karr examines the budgetary issues facing public transit.

Blueprint America | Financial Meltdown Hurts Public Transit

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:32:15 -0700

Amid the country's economic crisis, some public transit agencies have found themselves linked to complex financial deals that have since soured. Rick Karr reports on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Blueprint America | Stimulus Roadblock?

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:03:16 -0700

NOW on PBS and Blueprint America travel to North Carolina to see what the future holds for the country's mass transit systems in these troubling financial times.

Blueprint America | The Big Fix

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:03:16 -0700

"The Big Fix" examines what policy makers and politicians in Washington, including President Barack Obama, mean when they say that rebuilding our crumbling highways and bridges, leaky water systems and other vital lifelines stimulates the economy and generates jobs. Will fixing our infrastructure save the economy?

Blueprint America | Off the Rails

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:18:11 -0700

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 traffic into Grand Central Station.

Blueprint America | Singapore Curbs Traffic with Automatic Tolls

Tue, 19 May 2009 20:31:41 -0700

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 Ayer and correspondent Daljit Dhaliwal report, the automatic fees take a toll on Singapore's commuters.

Blueprint America | The Big Dig

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:03:16 -0700

Boston's Big Dig is an example of what to do right and, at the same time, what not to do when it comes to large urban infrastructure projects.

Blueprint America | Return to Sender

Tue, 19 May 2009 20:31:30 -0700

America's ports are its economic lifeline to the rest of the world, and are in danger of becoming a hindrance to our nation's success. NewsHour's Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez visits one of the nation's busiest: New Orleans.

Blueprint America | Nowhere to Grow

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:18:12 -0700

The NewsHour's Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez reports with Blueprint America on how the exurb of Buckeye, Arizona continues to grow with no boundaries.

Blueprint America | Flying Blind

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:18:13 -0700

With rare access into the control tower of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez shows us how America's air transportation system -- once a source of national pride -- has become a frustrating example of Americaâ??s struggling infrastructure.

Blueprint America | The Price of Decay

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:25:32 -0700

Ray Suarez hits the road for a close-up look at America's crumbling roads and bridges.

Blueprint America | Driven to Despair

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:18:11 -0700

With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American working class dream of a cheap commute to work from ever-appreciating houses on the fringes of suburbia has become more like an American nightmare. NOW on PBS, with Blueprint America, examines this crisis through the example of southern California.

Blueprint America | Beneath the North Texas Dirt

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:21:42 -0700

Expose on Bill Moyers Journal reports on a team of investigative journalists that uncovered how state and federal regulators in Texas, along with several power companies, have ignored fatal design flaws in our nation's energy infrastructure.