Transportation Engineers Are Legally Obligated to Protect the Public. It's Time to Demand They Do So.

Transportation engineering profession is at a crossroads. The industry has not honored its ethical obligations. That must change.

Engineering Profession, Top StorySteffen BerrFebruary 18, 2021Street Design, traffic engineering, engineering profession, engineering ethics, engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, vision zero

Failure to Act (like professionals)

According to their newest report, the American Society of Civil Engineers would have us believe that we're failing to act by not spending enough on infrastructure. This is false.

#DotheMath, The Infrastructure Cult, Marohn, Engineering ProfessionCharles MarohnMarch 20, 2017American Society of Civil Engineers, page highlight

Revisiting Engineering's Echo Chamber

America's engineering profession is deluding itself. In their own propaganda echo chamber, they are blaming society for the messes they helped create and perpetuate.

Engineering Profession, Marohn, The Infrastructure Cult, Top StoryCharles MarohnMarch 16, 2017American Society of Civil Engineers

Looking back: ASCE "Revises" Report

We have collectively believed for so long that spending on infrastructure is the key to prosperity that we don't even bother to check if it really is.

#InfrastructureCrisis, Engineering Profession, Marohn, The Infrastructure Cult, Top StoryCharles MarohnMarch 15, 2017American Society of Civil Engineers

Revisiting the ASCE Infrastructure Cult

We've spent trillions to save seconds in the first and last mile of each trip, and what we've gotten is the fake prosperity of a land use pattern that is bankrupting us.

The Infrastructure Cult, Marohn, Engineering ProfessionCharles MarohnMarch 13, 2017American Society of Civil Engineers

NSPE Statement of Principles

Predictably, the National Society of Professional Engineers, despite a weak reference to serving the public, is all about protecting its members.

Engineering Profession, The Infrastructure CultCharles MarohnMarch 20, 2015engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers

Infrastructure on Last Week Tonight

John Oliver is a comedian in the court jester genre: speaking truth to power.

The Infrastructure CultCharles MarohnMarch 3, 2015Highway Trust Fund, infrastructure cult, American Society of Civil Engineers

One Simple Example Why More Money Won't Fix Our Transportation System

The reason our bridges are crumbling is because we've made the conscious decision not to repair them. Instead, we've chosen to build new things (more specifically, mostly roads). And now, we're tasking the same people who created the problem to help get us out of it?

Mistakes A Town MakesNathaniel M. HoodFebruary 19, 2015The $6.7 Million Interchangeperham, American Society of Civil Engineers

Best of Blog: Some perspective on the gas tax

We may have a transportation funding problem, but that’s not what is going to take us down. Our real problem is that we have not had to think about what we are doing for a long, long time. We’ve been so wealthy and affluent that funding the most bizarre transportation arrangement on earth became akin to the American way of life. Congestion-free roadways and ample parking are to the United States what bread and circuses were to Rome. Get out your fiddle, that smoke is real.