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Blueprint America | Beyond the Motor City

09/14/2010

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.

Blueprint America | The Power House

09/14/2010

Detroit has emptied -- built for 2 million people, it now has half that number. Nearly one-third of the land is unused, and some 80,000 homes are vacant. Still, one local couple sees potential. They are building the 'Power House'.

Blueprint America | The Stop at Visalia

09/14/2010

Blueprint America follows a California mayor as he lobbies for a high speed rail stop in his town.

Blueprint America | Spain: The Next American System?

09/14/2010

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.

Blueprint America | The Crises

09/14/2010

Eric Rauchway, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, makes the case that it was the Civil War set the stage for the Transcontinental Railroad; that it was the Great Depression that made possible the public works projects of the New Deal. But, will the current American crisis -- the Great Recession -- advance infrastructure again?

Blueprint America | Airing 02/08/10: Beyond the Motor City

09/14/2010

"Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City," a new documentary directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf, examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America's diminished status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. The film debuts nationally on PBS on February 8 at 10 pm.

Blueprint America | Web Video: The Streetblogger

09/14/2010

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.

Blueprint America | City Creek Center

09/14/2010

Blueprint America -- with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS -- report on the rebuilding of Salt Lake City, a private project changing the public landscape.

Blueprint America | Keep on Trucking?

09/14/2010

The majority of American goods are transported by trucks, even though freight trains are greener and more fuel-efficient. Where should America be placing its bets for moving our economy and what would you personally sacrifice for it?

Blueprint America | Zombie Highways

09/14/2010

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.

Blueprint America | Zombie Highways: What about the environment?

09/14/2010

Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr in a web report from Alabama on the environmental impact of building highways, and the growth they can create.

Blueprint America | Zombie Highways: Birmingham and the Northern Beltline

09/14/2010

Should taxpayers in California or Illinois pay for the 52-mile road through the hills north of Birmingham, Alabama? Rick Karr speaks to the head of the Coalition for Regional Transportation, Phillip Wiedmeyer.

Blueprint America | Road to the Future

09/14/2010

"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 | Road to the Future: The Public Toll

09/14/2010

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 road, in return for the rights to keep the tolls.

Blueprint America | Choke Point: The Third Rail

09/14/2010

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.

Blueprint America | Choke Point

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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 | Transit in Trouble, Part One

09/14/2010

In the first segment of a two part report for Blueprint America, correspondent Rick Karr looks at the budgetary issues facing public transit.

Blueprint America | Transit in Trouble, Part Two

09/14/2010

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.

Blueprint America | Financial Meltdown Hurts Public Transit

09/14/2010

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?

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

"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 | Paul Krugman's Big Fix

09/14/2010

Blueprint America -- with host David Brancaccio (NOW on PBS) -- interviews economist Paul Krugman on the effect a stimulus in infrastructure spending will have on the American economy.

Blueprint America | Off the Rails

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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

Blueprint America | America in Gridlock: Louisiana & the Stimulus

09/14/2010

While some states are looking everywhere for funding as revenues fall, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is thinking twice about taking stimulus money from the federal government. Even as the state's infrastructure is reeling, he tells Blueprint America that there are consequences to unchecked government borrowing and spending.

Blueprint America | Driven to Despair

09/14/2010

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

09/14/2010

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.