New York Times: Moving On in America, Growing the Ways to Go

From New York Times:

The PBS project “Blueprint America” is a series of news reports and documentaries about the American infrastructure, that conglomeration of roads, rails, canals, power plants and other large things that we’re preparing to spend many billions of dollars to upgrade. Putting “Blueprint” in the title would seem to promise some sort of plan or at least a detailed suggestion, but the documentary “Road to the Future” (Wednesday on most PBS stations) doesn’t have much to offer in the way of concrete advice.  The brisk one-hour program, reported by the correspondent Miles O’Brien, provides snapshots of the contrasting state of transportation in three American cities. It’s the good, the bad and the not as ugly as you thought: Portland, Ore., all light rail and happy bikers; Denver, all choked highways and deadening suburban sprawl, artfully captured by the PBS cameras; and New York, the city that’s the greenest and least car-dependent in America, despite all those honking cabs.