Infrastructure has become the most fashionable of asset classes, as governments desperate for cash link up with pension funds desperate to diversify out of shares and bonds.Some big deals have already been done: Indiana got $3.9 billion for a 75-year road lease last June, and Chicago earned $1.8 billion for the 99-year lease of its skyway, which runs for less than eight miles (13km).
This emblematic arch and skyway is insanely photogenic.
To walk any part of the eight miles of skyway that connect much of downtown Minneapolis this past weekend was to hear snatches of dialogue endemic to writers.
We had escaped low Earth orbit to soar the skyway of the gods.
SAN FRANCISCO — Venture deep inside the new skyway of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and it becomes clear that the bridge's engineers have planned for the long term.
The deadmen are one sign that the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which includes the skyway and a unique suspension bridge, is meant to last at least 150 years after its expected opening in 2013.
The Olympic swimming trials begin Monday at the CenturyLink Center, which is connected to the hotel by a skyway.
But some of the ideas are a little pie in the sky, including a hypothetical garment district that, in 2022, would include a string of connected rooftop parks called a "fashion skyway" and pop-up shops installed in the loading docks of high-rise buildings.
Last year Aquino launched $8.42bn-worth of new schemes, including two railways and two major road projects, including the "Skyway stage 3" an elevated expressway that will connect those on the north and south of the city.
Plus, Minneapolis has an extensive skyway system.
There would be no monorail linking Manchester Airport to Langley, on the city's northern edge, no moving pavements to carry people along Oxford Road and out of the station; the urban skyway that would ferry cars to the dizzy heights of the nearby Piccadilly Plaza would never be built.
