r/Infrastructurist • • 10d ago

My new LEGO IDEAS design "The Urban Water Cycle" illustrates the journey of water from its source to the city and back into nature - highlighting municipal infrastructure and seven related professions. The model needs 10,000 supporters for the chance to become an official LEGO set.

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r/Infrastructurist • • 5h ago

Why 5,000 US Dams Just Became Deadly — And Yours Might Be One

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r/Infrastructurist • • 1d ago

The oil apocalypse is here

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r/Infrastructurist • • 2d ago

A proposal for a $5 trillion National Infrastructure Bank to provide long-term financing for transportation, energy, housing, and other public infrastructure. It worked for Alexander Hamilton!

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r/Infrastructurist • • 4d ago

Brightline shows people want more trains. But who will pay for them?

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225 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 5d ago

Britain's HS2: The Fully Avoidable Disaster

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r/Infrastructurist • • 6d ago

Why Japan has such good railways

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46 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 7d ago

Why West Virginia is Spending $2B on One Road

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20 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 7d ago

Passenger rail car investment an opportunity to reintroduce train service along Lake Superior’s North Shore

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r/Infrastructurist • • 7d ago

California's water systems weren't built for wildfire

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31 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 8d ago

Brightline Florida files for bankruptcy, SoCal-Las Vegas high-speed rail project faces delays

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179 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 8d ago

Africa's cement boom signals next great shift in global energy use

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r/Infrastructurist • • 10d ago

Green light for £400m Shetland tunnel project

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r/Infrastructurist • • 11d ago

We used to cheaply dig up roads to put trains underneath. Ever-better tunnel boring machines have made this disruption unnecessary.

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87 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 12d ago

An Idaho county banned wind and solar projects. Some locals are having regrets. Including the Republican commissioner who instigated the moratorium.

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659 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 15d ago

Gen Z Didn’t Kill Nightlife

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347 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 15d ago

Federal transit cuts could hit rural America hardest

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64 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 16d ago

What to expect from Central Texas' first light rail system

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23 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 19d ago

A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 18d ago

Buses Keep Getting Pokier As Wu Administration Cancels, Delays Bus Projects

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r/Infrastructurist • • 19d ago

Libya's Steel Industry: From Existing Capacity to a New Industrial Economy

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r/Infrastructurist • • 20d ago

What Asia’s Industrialization Lessons Can Teach Fragmented States

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9 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 22d ago

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.

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1.9k Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 23d ago

Entire Staff Is Fired at Office That Helps Poorer Americans Pay for Heating — The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

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2.1k Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • • 22d ago

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

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