Author Archives: Alex Marshall

OUR INFRASTRUCTURE GAP

October 17, 2005 – 10:09 am

ALEX MARSHALL — Can America send a man to the moon? Check. Build a swift, stealthy bomber that can evade radar in pursuit of enemies? Check. Write creative software that will fish through billions of bytes and pull out relevant few facts? Check. But can America routinely build light, airy bridges that cross streams or [...]

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LEARNING FROM EUROPE

February 2, 2005 – 9:35 am

Flying with 800 other people in a plane the size of a shopping mall is not a particular desire of mine, but if it were, I would have to do it on the new Airbus A380, whose completion was announced with great fanfare in Toulouse, France this week. The aircraft can carry more people — [...]

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Seattle’s Monorail Project: Will Civic Chutzpah Prevail?

August 19, 2004 – 11:51 am

ALEX MARSHALL: Traveling —- driving down an open road, rolling on steel rails, soaring in the sky —- is romantic. Constructing the means to travel —-building a highway, a train line or an airport —- generally isn’t. Which is why the new Seattle monorail project, set to begin construction this fall, is so interesting. It [...]

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