- MIT Researcher: Sustainability Should Be The Keynote Of Pandemic Recovery Investment
- Ireland Owes Millions To Tollway Operators Impacted By The Pandemic Lockdown
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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MIT Researcher: Sustainability Should Be The Keynote Of Pandemic Recovery Investment
The Hill publishes an op-ed in which an MIT scientist urges lawmakers and transportation officials to reflect on the successes and shortcomings of 2009’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act before funding infrastructure projects to help the economy out of its present doldrums. Dr. Jeremy Gregory, a Civil and Environmental Engineering researcher and executive director of MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub, argues that the country’s current investment priority should be advancing creative solutions “that give us the best long-term performance,” not projects that can be delivered quickly and expediently. He asserts that how we build is as important as what we build, and suggests current government procurement processes “have become stagnant, with conventional strategies chosen over more sustainable alternatives.”
Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Maintenance Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts) Transportation and Infrastructure Research & Development US Gov't Transportation FundingIreland Owes Millions To Tollway Operators Impacted By The Pandemic Lockdown
Meath Chronicle reports, Transport Infrastructure Ireland will have to make a total of €9 million (about US$10.16 million) in “variable operation payments” to two toll concession companies as a consequence of the fall in traffic during the country’s COVID-19 lockdown period. The obligations arise under risk sharing clauses in the country’s P3 contracts with the facility operators. A member of parliament representing the constituency where one facility (the M3) is located says the contracts “are a consequence of poor planning and financial incompetence” on the part of a previous government.
Ferrovial Highway-Tunnel-Bridge Safety (Includes COVID-19 Impacts) Ireland P3 & PrivatizationThese are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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