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What do you call a highway program that just keeps going long after its original goals were achieved? A zombie highway. Blueprint America -- with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer -- goes to Birmingham, Alabama, to look into the Northern Beltline, a road that will cost more than $3 billion, most of which will be paid for by taxpayers nationwide.
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Blueprint America -- with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer -- in a report from Alabama on how America's highways are built and funded -- often times at the expense of mass-transit development.
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Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr in a web report from Alabama on the environmental impact of building highways, and the growth they can create.
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In partnership with Blueprint America, ten public television stations across the country concentrate on the state of their local infrastructure. PBS stations are producing radio and television segments, hosting discussions between policy makers and their communities, and offering further content online, all as a part of Blueprint America.
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A roundup of links to local stories of national importance to the state of America's infrastructure.
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President Barack Obama's stimulus money is nearly out the door and on its way to the states, but will it be spent in the way it is intended?
(12 votes) Loading ...Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- reports from North Carolina to see what the future holds for the country's mass transit systems in these financial times.
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Exposé on Bill Moyers Journal reports on a journalist who uncovered potentially fatal design flaws in the connections between natural gas pipes - and revealed that state regulators, along with local power companies, had known of the flaws for nearly thirty years.
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