Salt Lake City, Utah: 12:4:13: Dire States rolled into Salt Lake City tonight from Denver just after both cities were hit with an arctic blast. I am speaking at an event early in the AM with a hundred contractors that my partner Case Construction Equipment put together. Just in time to see this new street car roll down the avenues. This new Sugar House transit system is opening tomorrow. So cool. Connecting condos to class rooms – Sugar House residential area with the University of Utah (someday soon). But love the idea of revitalizing a 100-year old “linear park” that demanded street car like action and not buses or faster trains. Check out story in Salt Lake City’s Tribune, the source of my factoids and image above.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57213783-90/lake-salt-stop-streetcar.html.csp
Dan McNichol is a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. His published books, articles, thought-leadership papers and speaking events focus on mega construction projects in the United States and The Peoples Republic of China.
McNichol recently contributed to a front page story in The New York Times titled, “Trump-Sized Idea for a New President: Build Stuff”. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) / Boston Chapter named McNichol as one of nation’s outstanding journalists in 2014 and again in 2003. McNichol contributes to worldwide media outlets including: The New York Times, Engineering News Record (ENR), ABC World News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) network, China Central Television (CCTV), TV Tokyo, MSNBC and PBS’s The NewsHour, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel. McNichol is a frequent voice on National Public Radio (NPR).
ENR Magazine recently tapped McNichol as the magazine’s national correspondent for a cross country tour. McNichol and Aileen Cho, ENR’s senior transportation editor, drove in a 1949 Hudson Commodore with the tagline, “America’s infrastructure is as old, rusty and energy defunct as our original Detroit lead-sled.” The journalists wrote ENR print and online cover stories about the nation’s ailing infrastructure.
A former White House appointee, McNichol served the President on US policy issues surrounding transportation and infrastructure between 1991-1993. McNichol has worked in official capacities on the nation’s largest infrastructure projects: California High Speed Rail (2017), San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Replacement (2013) and The Big Dig, a.k.a. The Central Artery / Third Harbor Tunnel Project (2000).
