They can take some of the strain off overcrowded roads, subways and railroad lines.
LONDON — A fierce winter snowstorm crippled London's roads, subways and buses and all but shut down many parts of Britain on Monday.
Columbia and a coalition led by New York University want to build in more urban settings, hemmed in by roads, subways and buildings, with less flexibility and space for parks or solar panels.
Another is that we now have an archaic and grotesquely wasteful federal system in which upkeep for roads, subways, housing, public parkland and our water supply are all handled separately.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised $300 billion in new roads, subways, power plants, ports and irrigation canals by 2012.
After all, who needs public roads, subways, housing, hospitals, schools, and the police department when the rich can buy all those services privately?
However, observers doubted that the Seoul Games actually generated a profit for South Korea because the balance sheet does not include an estimated $1.5 billion the South Korean government spent on building or expanding stadiums, roads, subways and other facilities.
While our roads, subways, water supply, electricity, and other staples of life are still in decent shape, it would take only a handful of large funding shocks for all of that to sink into disrepair, and eventually into meaninglessness; and if we go down the path that the GOP wants us to, this is exactly what will happen within a few decades.
Roads, subway systems, parks, and other public infrastructure were also severely damaged.
Google's new map's features include buildings, roads, subway stations, parks and some of the countless monuments to the country's ruling Kim dynasty.
These range from the closing of public schools to the direction of public pension money into hedge funds and other alternative investment accounts to the privatization of parking meters, roads, subway cards, school maintenance and other pieces of the city's infrastructure.
