10-23-13: Miami, Florida: Chris Hodgkins (left) is an underground man if there ever was one. He digs his tunnel project known as Miami Tunnel. Chris is in charge of communications for MAT Concessionaire LLC. (Miami Access Tunnel) the private consortium building the underwater wonder. To Hodgkin’s left is Christy Zweig, reporting for CENews. Joining us on tour is Miami city resident Fred Joseph in the yellow hard hat, who helped raise $50 million in funds for the project that he feels, “..makes Miami an even better place to live.” The tunnel is a nearly $700 million undertaking that removes heavy truck traffic from the city’s streets are destined for the Port of Miami. Joseph is empahtic when he said, “These trucks are dangerous. We don’t want them on our city streets anymore than they want to be there.” Hodgkins chimed in, “Miami’s port will be the only US port that will have a direct connection from the Interstate System
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).
