Many Sydney-siders believe that the only good thing about the city’s monorail system is the fact it offers a small column of shade while crossing Pyrmont Bridge. The state government isn’t too fussed on it either, telling developers to not let the monorail constrain their thinking when it comes to redeveloping the Convention Centre side of Darling Harbour. More »
By and large, America’s water infrastructure is on the cusp of disrepair. Environmentalists and public health officials have been chattering about this for years, but now the problem has become more urgent and the US needs to overhaul much of it in a hurry. More »
Chicago’s mechanised subterranean restructuring project Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) has bored out a massive complex of man-made caverns. The goal? To prevent flooding and sewage overflow seeping into Lake Michigan. The effect? As you can see here, truly enormous. [BLDGBLOG]
Apparently not content with just one giant ongoing infrastructure project, Australia has committed to fully outfitting three of its biggest cities for widespread electric car use. In hardware terms, that amounts to 200,000-250,000 charging stations each for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with an additional 150 battery swap stations scattered between them. The effort will cost $1bn in Australian Dingo Dollars, which is about $667m USD. If that’s not ambitious enough for you, consider this: it should be online in three years.
The MobileMe launch was a massive flusteruck–even Steve said so. Our long national nightmare is over though, right? Well, Om is reporting that their whole net infrastructure is a few years behind where it should be, and if it’s as bad as he’s heard, “then there is no way Apple can get over its current spate of problems.”
