Sentences with phrase «building over rail»

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In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

While the merits of building a subway line over a light - rail one are, in this instance, contentious, the move at least bucks a trend in Toronto, a city where subway plans are often scrapped — not formed on short notice (not to mention at a higher cost).

As bad as the fight is over getting high - speed rail built between two cities in the U.S., now imagine the fight that would erupt if someone proposed building a superfast transport tube between New York and Mexico City or Los Angeles and Singapore.

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high - speed rail built just in the last decade.

Certain structures of finished fact will determine aspects of the future, so God will know certain things about the future; if a grand piano has just fallen off the top of the Empire State Building, God — along with any person who has seen the piano slide over the railing — knows that in just a very few seconds the piano will smash into the sidewalk below.

The first time we met Larry he was leaning on the railing over the stage on our very cool sunken gymnasium basketball court (West Vigo High School built in 1960 and still in use to this day) and half a dozen of us with 3 or 4 basketballs came down from the other end and yelled «hey Larry!

«Because they're building SolarCity over there, there are going to be hundreds of jobs, thousands of jobs, and we're with AIM Photonics here (in Rochester), that there would people that could move back and forth in a half an hour on some high - speed rail and the workplace could move from one place to the other, depending on their skills, without having to move from where they live,» she said.

After losing a court battle late last year over a proposed rail trail, the state Adirondack Park Agency approved a plan that, if finalized, would clear the legal hurdles necessary to build a trail between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

Diaz announced in his 2015 State of the Borough address that his office would study the feasibility of building platforms over three Bronx rail yards operated by the MTA: 149th Street in Mott Haven, the 1 train yards that connect Riverdale and Kingsbridge, and the Concourse Yard next to Lehman College.

As part of its strategy to build a 21st century economy for the many, not the few, Labour will today commit to upgrading the economy of the North East with over a billion pounds of investment to overhaul rail services across the region.

The long, narrow structure extending to the east of the main station served as a transfer building from the rails to local delivery for over half a century.

As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.

When the county built a hiking and biking rail over the waste beds, it was required to put up fences to keep people away from the soil because it could be hazardous to humans.

At its peak, the Bethlehem Steel plant employed over 25,000 workers and had over 7 million square feet of buildings, as well as almost 30 miles of rail track.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

It would pave over the former North Shore rail line and cost an estimated $ 371 million to build, the MTA said.

The Union Station master plan also envisions an expanded Metrorail station, an enhanced retail experience, new and refurbished Amtrak and commuter rail facilities, a rebuilt H Street bridge and a new community, Burnham Place, to be built on air - rights over the railroad tracks with some three - million square feet of new hotels, offices, residences and shopping.

Description of Recall: VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: MINI VANS BUILT WITH 3.3 L AND 3.8 L ENGINES HAVE FUEL RAILS WITH NITROLE RUBBER O - RING SEALS THAT CAN DEGRADE OVER TIME.

But if I say that I actually had Shreddies and a mug of tea3 I start thinking about Coco - Pops and lemonade and Porridge and Dr Pepper and how I wasn't eating my breakfast in Egypt and there wasn't a rhinoceros in the room and Father wasn't wearing a diving suit and so on and even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang onto the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed.

Additional levels should be ideally built with walls that function like guard rails to keep your guinea pigs from falling over, with the ramps having similar walls to help keep the guinea pigs safely on solid ground when they transition between levels.

We have over 30 years in the rail holiday industry and we've built up quite a level of expertise in that time, no one offers the wealth of options and fantastic quality that we do.

Over 100 sources from rail companies, public and regulatory bodies were consulted and Amadeus built predictive models based on correlations between long distance rail share of total traffic, national population densities, rail densities, rail industry structure across countries and geography.

Trains — a deck builder that incorporates a board as you lay rail and build trains all over Tokyo or Kyoto

For the occasion of that exhibition, the artists created a monumental Soft Shuttlecock spanning 32 feet long and six feet in diameter which appeared suspended from the museum's skylight with its feathers draped over the railings of the building's renowned rotunda.

(of course, all over the world, they are building light rail and bike lanes).

For example, if a person falls over a railing on someone's porch, we need to determine if the railing was high enough and if it met the building code.

Though the recession has impacted them as well, many of the projects built over the past decade associated with rail accessibility are still popular and holding their property values relatively well, officials say.

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I had credentials in the transportation industry (I marketed rail freight for many years and have a background in railroad history), and more recently, I was a political organizer building «Friends of the Trail» groups all over the Northeast.