Tag: Infrastructure
Houston committee weighs giving city council more power over infrastructure projects | Houston Public Media
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Houston City Council members this week continued to consider requiring more transparency from the mayoral administration and giving themselves more...
Stretch of Grand Parkway in western Harris County set for $157 million expansion | Houston Public Media
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The Grand Parkway between Interstate 10 and U.S. 290 will be expanded from two to three lanes in each direction to...
60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe
The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then,...
X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say
A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or mechanical issue in a...
Houston waived more than 230 sidewalk construction requirements since rule change in September | Houston Public Media
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Over an eight-month period after Houston Mayor John Whitmire instructed the city's planning department to "use discretion and waive sidewalk construction"...
The FCC plans to ban Chinese technology in undersea cables
The Federal Communication Commission plans to vote on new rules that will ban the use of Chinese technology in undersea cables, according to a...
Exclusive: LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say
LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding at an approximate $1...
Houston marks one-year anniversary of Hurricane Beryl as state reels over deadly flooding in Central Texas | Houston Public Media
David Smith
About 68% of recently surveyed Houstonians said they felt prepared for Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall in Southeast Texas one year ago Tuesday.
However,...
Montrose loses another planned bike lane as Houston Mayor John Whitmire preserves width of car lanes | Houston Public Media
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A proposed bike lane along West Alabama Street through Houston's Montrose neighborhood won't be built, marking another piece of cyclist infrastructure...
