Infrastructure

New research finds that people from communities that weren't close to a road were more skeptical about the prospect of a new one.

• By John C. Cannon

A quick guide to Proposition 3, among the more confusing measures on which Californians will vote on November 6th.

• By Kate Wheeling

Police patrol ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival for the official opening of the world's longest sea bridge on October 23rd, 2018, in Hong Kong.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The law authorizes billions of dollars for state-level projects aimed at improving the nation's rivers, harbors, and drinking water.

• By Emily Moon

A new initiative—looking to equalize the gender gap in the workforce—calls for hiring an equal number of men and women to help restore a shattered mountainside.

• By Kadia Goba

According to a new study, wealthy and educated citizens could be the first to go.

• By Sophie Yeo

This November, voters in Baltimore will decide on a charter amendment that would ban water system privatization preemptively.

• By Sarah Holder

The all-white bikes, placed at locations of fatal bicycle crashes, serve as an infrastructure of grief—part memorial, part protest symbol.

• By Andrew Small

To help animals navigate our fast-paced highway systems nature conservationists have started building infrastructure designed specifically for critters.

• By Sarah Holder

Environmental experts warn that many of these projects could cause irreversible damage in highly biodiverse areas.

• By Basten Gokkon

It's going to cost the city around $2 billion to increase the capacity of the four "Deep Tube" lines by 10 trains an hour.

• By Feargus O'Sullivan

President Donald Trump is expected to preside over a signing ceremony today for a memorandum to reduce redundancies in the federal permitting process.

• By Kate Wheeling

A number of controversial issues have emerged in recent weeks as roadblocks to a new budget bill.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Poorly built schools have detrimental effects on the students who attend them, but no easy solution is in sight.

• By Mimi Kirk

The president's proposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment could heat up the debate around the role of the federal government in local planning and policy.

• By Laura Bliss

A new study seems to suggest so.

• By Kate Wheeling

Houseboats have long been a common sight in the Netherlands. But a new community of floating homes may signal a solution for rising sea levels across the globe.

• By Olga Mecking

The 2015 rule would require higher upfront construction costs, but would ultimately save lives.

• By Kate Wheeling

Paul Barford is leading a team of researchers determined to show us what the Internet—in all its wire-bound glory—actually looks like.

• By Jack Denton

There were no injuries reported, but workers near the tunnel were evacuated.

• By Francie Diep

Why, where, and how to put federal dollars into our aging infrastructure system.

• By Dwyer Gunn

A 25-acre property in New Orleans will soon become part of a series of small but important steps toward more effective and sustainable water management in the Big Easy.

• By Rebecca Worby

Major cities are taking a big-picture look at traffic deaths—and it's working.

• By Allison Shapiro

As global temperatures rise, an unprepared Egypt braces itself for more extreme rainstorms.

• By Emily Crane Linn & Nicholas Linn