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Rethinking Infrastructure for a Changing Climate / Summit on Infrastructure and Transportation

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Photo by David Ryder 09/14/2020

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A roadmap for spending billions of dollars on infrastructure in the Albany region

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A Reform Agenda for the U.S. Department of Transportation

By Kevin DeGood Photo by John Moore 09/09/2020

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This month, the nation’s surface transportation law — which funds the implementation of so much of planners’ work — will expire.

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