By Taylor Anderson, PE on September 24, 2009
Gwinnett County filed a notice of appeal on a federal ruling earlier this year that would no longer allow most of metro-Atlanta use Lake Lanier for its drinking water, despite the fact that it is its primary potable water reservoir and has been for decades.
That this is even an issue, despite the fact that the [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, flooding, infrastructure, lake lanier, water wars
By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 24, 2009
It seems the timing on my first infrastructure post was impeccable. GDOT announced on Thursday that it would seek federal funding for rail. It even cleared up my question, to a degree, on where the missing link from Louisville to Atlanta was. Well, President Obama’s plan has it missing, but apparently the various state DOTs [...]
Posted in public | Tagged georgia dot, infrastructure, rail, transportation
By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 19, 2009
Following up on the portion of yesterday’s blog regarding rail, it turns out that the kickoff for President Obama’s high speed rail plan begins here in the southeast.
Charlotte will bat lead-off in a national high-speed rail vision road show – a series of workshops in seven U.S. cities put on by the Federal Railroad Administration.
The [...]
Posted in public | Tagged barack obama, infrastructure, rail, transportation
By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 18, 2009
Metro-Atlanta was not geographically located very well for the now 5.7+ million inhabitants that call it home. First, the only major water source is the Chattahoochee River, a very small river by drainage basin standards, especially where it feeds metro-Atlanta’s primary drinking source – Lake Lanier. The topography is extreme for a large city – [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, balancing law, georgia dot, infrastructure, rail, transportation
By Taylor Anderson, PE on April 2, 2009
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure [...]
Posted in public | Tagged ASCE, economy, infrastructure
By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 16, 2008
David Brooks wrote an interesting piece in the New York Times regarding today’s trends in how people that once lived in the suburbs are changing their expectations of what the suburbs should be. The article in its entirety is rather interesting for a number of reasons. He talks about the emerging town centers that we [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, barack obama, infrastructure, social land development
By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 15, 2008
As with many things that government does, laws with good intentions often have very bad consequences. Such was the case of Georgia’s “Balancing Law” – the law which requires that equal amounts of Georgia Department of Transportation’s budget be spent equally among the states 13 congressional districts.
Taking a look at Georgia’s congressional district map, you [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, balancing law, georgia dot, infrastructure
By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 8, 2008
I try and stay away from politics – mostly because it’s overdone and, usually, boring to write about. So, while this post does include information about President-elect Obama’s plans for infrastructure, the discussion is purely within the context of the plan and nothing further should be inferred.
Mr. Obama stated over the weekend that he intends [...]
Posted in public | Tagged barack obama, economy, infrastructure
