Sentences with phrase «rail road on»

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took a victory lap Wednesday to celebrate approval in the State Senate of a nearly $ 2 billion plan to build a third track for the Long Island Rail Road on its Main Line in Nassau.

Fred Thiele and the Long Island Rail Road on the plan to run trains between Speonk and Montauk for workers to reduce traffic.

The news comes as several transportation improvements begin today, with the Long Island Rail Road on a weekday schedule on 10 of 11 tracks.

Cuomo took a victory lap to celebrate approval in the state Senate of a nearly $ 2 billion plan to build a third track for the Long Island Rail Road on its Main Line in Nassau.

Not exact matches

China's next targets: rail, roads, ports The powerful chairman of China's $ US200 billion ($ 307 billion) sovereign wealth fund, Lou Jiwei, has met Treasurer Wayne Swan and West Australian Premier Colin Barnett to clarify rules on foreign investment in resources and discuss whether China could help finance the Rudd government's infrastructure program.

Swiss Rail began unloading Davos - bound passengers from their express trains, taking them on a half - hour bus trip on back roads around the blockage and then loading them onto a crowded red commuter train that ran the rest of the way into Davos.

Why is there no discussion on arterial roads, freeways, light rail, monorail and / or ordinary rail.

The Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad were reporting delays on commuter lines.

Putting a price on roads is often described — to mix transportation metaphors — as the «third rail» of Canadian politics.

Train traffic has been disrupted by explosions on the rail network, and on most major roads throughout the region, checkpoints have been set up by rebels and Ukrainian forces, making goods transport a risky business.

Citing the $ 650 million Ronkonkoma Hub mixed - use project and $ 600 million project near the Long Island Rail Road station in Wyandanch, Bellone says «a new suburbia is on the horizon, and Suffolk County is leading the way.»

CN operates a railway that terminates at Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, 450 road km south of NICO and provides a rail link for haulage of the concentrate that will be produced at the mine site.

I was surprised when I told that blacks still lived on one side of the rails road tracks an whites on the others.

As a matter of fact the French government has reduced the value added tax on theme parks from 18.6 % to 7 %, lent 4 billion francs at preferential rates and provided 2.7 billion francs in infrastructure improvements, such as highways and rail roads.

Sponsorship: To display corporate identity, logos, or branded information on approximately 40 Portable Commissary Carts used for the sale of non-alcoholic beverages, beer, wine, liquor and snacks located at Metro - North's Grand Central Terminal and Long Island Rail Road's high traffic stations such as Pennsylvania Station.

The thoughtfully designed long shoulder straps make this food / beverage cooler a comfortable choice to wear for hours on end while traveling via road, rail or air.

«Importing LIE traffic to Westchester will overwhelm our roads and communities, add billions of tons of carbon emissions into our air, and divert desperately needed infrastructure dollars from being spent where they are truly needed — on our existing roads, bridges, and rail systems.

Sector Insight publication is the first in a series exploring autonomous transport systems with works on road, rail and maritime perspectives to follow.

Rail improvements need # 12 billion investment over five years but the Liberal Democrats propose this could be funded with levies on roads and flights.

Wednesday Questions - Applying lessons learned from the privatisation of British Rail to any plans for increased private investment in the UK's motorway and trunk road network, Marking the 200th anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Percival, Prime Minister, on 11 May 2012, Plans for post-legislative scrutiny of the Health and Social Care Act 2011 Legislation - Parliament Square (Management) Bill

Joe Lhota, the MTA Board chairman, assured commuters that the Long Island Rail Road's improved performance over the summer months will continue well after full service is restored at Penn Station on Tuesday.

«We are being overrun by scruffy signs, bossy bollards, patchwork paving and railed off roads, wasting taxpayers» money that could be better spent on fixing potholes or keeping council tax down.

It is set to form a vital part of the modern industrial strategy and builds on the progress made in recent years of upgrading the road and rail network.

While Long Island Rail Road workers feast on overtime, its service is the worst it's been in nearly two decades, according to a state report released yesterday.

The town of Oyster Bay has filed a lawsuit against two contractors that worked on the troubled Hicksville parking garage that serves the Long Island Rail Road.

The head of the Long Island Rail Road unveiled a turnaround plan for the commuter rail line, which last year slumped to its worst on - time performance in almost two decaRail Road unveiled a turnaround plan for the commuter rail line, which last year slumped to its worst on - time performance in almost two decarail line, which last year slumped to its worst on - time performance in almost two decades.

On reaching a section of the road between Nyamebekyere and Nsuta, there was a heap of sand in the lane of the Jeep which was being used for the road maintenance, and the driver in trying to avoid running into the sand, swerved onto the opposite lane and grazed the nearside portion of the bus and plunged into the railings at the edge of the road, killing the three other occupants identified as Francisca Nkansah Kuri aged 27 years, Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng [Ebony], and Lance Corporal Vondee Francis Atsu, aged 29 years.

The Long Island Rail Road's anti-fraud custom of listing «M» and «F» genders on fare cards discriminates against transgender people and should be stopped, according to New York City Public Advocate Letitia James.

Aviation is the hub of a modern economy, maritime is the cash cow, given the normally huge revenue from ports in a globalised economy that thrives on international trade; and rail holds the key to truly modernising the Nigerian local economy, both in the mass transit of people; and mass movement of heavy bulk, at tolerable costs, and with least cost to road infrastructure.

Sunder, Focusing only on individual dissent in divisions misses the real point about concentration of power in the executive; namely, that Governments rail - road legislation through the house, with MPs so busy they have no time for proper scrutiny of anything, be it bills, statutory instruments, select committees, standing committees or whatever.

The Long Island Rail Road in January posted its worst on - time performance in more than two decades.

On the day the government published details of the legislation needed to kick start the project, experts said the public needed to hear more about how it would free up capacity on the road and rail networOn the day the government published details of the legislation needed to kick start the project, experts said the public needed to hear more about how it would free up capacity on the road and rail networon the road and rail network.

It's last call for alcohol on the Long Island Rail Road.

A bill that surfaced late in the state legislative session became the subject of a fight that legislators said pitted safety measures on the Long Island Rail Road against the need for a third track to improve efficiency and cut congestion.

Politico New York article on BP Adams urging the MTA to offer reduced fares for the Long Island Rail Road to address subway overcrowding issues.

amNewYork article on BP Adams announcing the launch of Freedom Ticket, a new pilot program that will enable riders to transfer seamlessly between the city's buses and subways and the Long Island Rail Road.

I'm all for more infrastructure spending on road and rail (though very sceptical indeed about HS2), nuclear power stations, and airports - though the big decision on the latter has been postponed until after 2015.

On Wednesday morning, a Long Island Rail Road train coming from Far Rockaway failed to come to a complete stop as it entered Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal, injuring 104 commuters, according to the latest numbers from the Fire Department of New York.

«What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I've been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives... have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,» said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill's sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee.

amNewYork article on Borough President Adams emphasizing the urgent need to implement the Freedom Ticket allowing straphangers to ride the Long Island Rail Road at discounted rates.

«Ridership is going to continue to grow on the Long Island Rail Road, and that's all the more reason why we need to continue supporting investments in expanding its capacity,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, a business and planning group.

«If we can't build these 9.8 miles of track now, when a plan is on the table within the Long Island Rail Road right of way, then this may well be our last opportunity for a third track,» Bellone said.

«Widespread flooding has a major impact on the road and rail network, which in turn has a significant effect on UK industry and commerce.»

The Government should increase spending on the UK's road network to match what is being spent on rail, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA).

The Long Island Rail Road will be able to operate on all its usual tracks at Penn Station over the next few weeks, until Amtrak begins the final stages of its current infrastructure renewal project at the busy commuter hub, a key Amtrak official said.

Passengers clear the gap as they disembark an eastbound train headed for Babylon at the Lynbrook Long Island Rail Road station on Thursday.

Schumer said the cameras would help stop the widespread bad behavior by crews on the Long Island Rail Road that was exposed Sunday in The Post.

He pointed to the free bus shuttle instituted last summer in Montauk and the establishment of the town rental registry as contributors to «having a calmer, saner summer,» and mentioned the successful bid to the Long Island Rail Road to run shuttle trains on the East End, due in 2018.

A significant number also think the metro mayor should invest in road and rail (19 per cent) and focus on major developments and infrastructure (18 per cent).

During the budget hearing, which was attended by state senators and Assembly members, Lhota came under fire for the MTA's myriad failings — derailments, poor Access - a-Ride service, even the condition of bathrooms on the Long Island Rail Road, according to the New York Times.