With some 8,000 new housing units and three master-planned neighborhoods anticipated by the middle of next decade on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority is overseeing construction of various mobility projects.
Launching an environmental justice case in Syracuse, N.Y. in 2018, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin looked beyond her lawsuit against the $2.3-billion plan to replace the aging Interstate 81 viaduct bisecting a historically Black neighborhood.
As congressional appropriators make more headway in producing spending measures for fiscal year 2019, construction industry officials see encouraging numbers so far for key infrastructure accounts, including highways and water programs.
