Sentences with phrase «roads fund funded»

Allow Cornwall to create a Better Roads Fund funded by the localisation of 2p in every litre from existing fuel duty — will generate approximately # 7.5 million a year that would be used to maintain our rural roads.

Not exact matches

Will President Obama's proposed $ 50 billion in funding for fixing roads, bridges, rail lines and airports be enough?

Whether the projects will pay off down the road is an open question: Some critics argue that China is funding them indiscriminately in a global pork - barrel push to build alliances.

Those funds fell into government hands after an exchange that heavily used the cryptocurrency, Silk Road, was shuttered.

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.

And some of the LPs in this fund are interested in making direct follow - on investments, so they're looking to us to not just generate good returns from the fund but also interesting deal flow that might be of interest to them down the road.

• Eight Roads Ventures Europe, a U.K. - based venture capital and private equity firm, raised $ 375 million for its third fund.

When their funds ran dry after two years, they returned to work — Jason as an IT project manager and Julie as a marketing manager — and quickly devised a plan to take their lives on the road full time.

The new funding is from Altos Ventures, Slow Ventures, Strong Ventures and Thunder Road Capital.

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

He was only occasionally in the office, spending most of his time on the road promoting the funds and fulfilling his television commitments.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott flew into Perth today to announce $ 500 million of extra Commonwealth funding for WA roads, while his finance minister Mathias Cormann kept up pressure on the state government to reciprocate by privatising more state - owned assets.

The road to IPO has gotten longer, he said, thanks to new funding from big foreign investors such as SoftBank, which earlier this year invested $ 9.3 billion in Uber.

In January 1996, the three co-founders pitched Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Sand Hill Road venture capital firm, and talked their way into $ 3 million in funding.

Dell knew all of the founders — James Davidson, David Roux, Glenn Hutchins, and Roger McNamee, whom he had first met in the late»80s, during his company's IPO «road show» (at that time, McNamee was running T. Rowe Price's science and technology fund).

Selective efficiency measures, applied only where they are most needed, can keep a business running and earning revenue to fund more improvements down the road.

Eight Roads Ventures and Cowen Healthcare Investments co-led the round, and was joined by investors including MPM Capital, F - Prime Capital Partners and ARCH Venture Partners, existing strategic partners Novartis, Medtronic and the JDRF T1D Fund, and new investors including ORI Healthcare Fund, Wu Capital, 6 Dimensions Capital and SinoPharm Capital.

Bell Canada president Cynthia Garneau said the funding could help efforts to develop air taxis designed to reduce road congestion.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

Here are four stages of business development that can serve as a road map for your funding strategy.

Murphy also suggests a model that includes «worst - case, best - case and middle - of - the - road snapshots» to identify funding requirements later on.

«It is important to encourage financial innovation to raise funds to support the development of the belt and road.»

If you're looking for growth capital, it could be tempting to dust off that yellowing plan and head right out on the road to find funding.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a yroad projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a yRoad Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

The bigger, more expensive projects, such as roads, bridges and water pipe upgrades, will likely start getting funded in 2018, says Nazir.

Even if there's no upfront sales commission when you buy the fund, you may still end up paying ongoing annual management fees — plus additional fees when you sell the fund down the road.

In fact, it can free up funds for retirement savings and other important goals in ways that can make you look smart down the road.

That strategy provides a management lesson in how to get smart money from angels who can help guide and groom a company for venture funding and crucial Internet partnerships down the road.

Whether you're on the high road to capital, like Guru.com, or on the low road, here's a tip sheet for navigating the funding stream.

FUNDING of community services, facilities and projects, roads, dual use paths and drainage have received high priority in the City of Bunbury's $ 28 million budget for 1999/2000.

Company executives have been on the road for the last week meeting with potential investors, and Thomson Reuters IFR reported on Friday that the deal is oversubscribed, meaning far more fund managers want a slice than can be accommodated.

The company operates out of a two - storey industrial park in Waterloo, Ont., several kilometres up the road from a new downtown cluster of tech companies — some of which received their first funding through Livingston's UW donation.

But even the tiny cars use software and sensors that is similar to the technology used by big tech companies and well - funded startups road - testing full - sized cars, he said.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

This includes 6.5 mills that go to the state fund, 5.6 mills that go to Jefferson County's general fund, 7.9 mills that go to things like roads and bridges and another 8.2 mills that go to schools across the county.

Wilk acknowledges that NuData may seek VC funding down the road as it expands.

Many investors that put in money in later rounds aren't the typical Sand Hill Road venture capitalists, but are large hedge funds and private equity investors who have a bigger appetite for risk.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the U.S. is presently facing a funding gap of $ 1.7 trillion on roads, bridges and transit alone — to say nothing of electricity, schools, airports and other needs.

In January, Pune - based online lending platform EarlySalary raised Rs 100 crore ($ 15.7 million) in a Series B funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures India.

An accurate count assures that every community receives its fair share of public funds for schools, hospitals, daycare centers and roads.

Company B had already lined up a significant funding round ($ 20 million) from some of the most elite VCs on Sand Hill Road but hadn't signed the term sheet.

If we don't hear about ETFs and hedge funds blowing up after what happened yesterday, it means the PPT (NY Fed + the Treasury's Working Group on Financial Markets — the «PPT» — which both have offices in the same building in lower Manhattan) has monetized and covered up those financial road - side bombs.

The VC firm recently hit the road to raise $ 150 million (about Rs 950 crore) in its second fund, less than a year after raising Rs 300 crore (about $ 50 million) in the first outing.

First, it managed to attain an optimal shareholder structure on the project, namely 50.1 percent went to itself, 20 percent - to CNPC and Total, 9.9 percent - to the Silk Road Fund.

South Carolina, however, recently raised its sales tax per gallon from 16.75 cents to 28.75 cents to fund road improvement projects over the next six years.

I really like the idea of buying physical property to personally enjoy, and then renting it out years down the road if you have the funds and the desire to move.

Now armies of women are ditching Sand Hill Road and creating their own funding universe.

The state's gas tax, which stayed at 27 cents per gallon for 24 years was raised 4.5 cents in July 2017 to fund road and bridge projects.

And this doesn't include the fact that electric car owners don't pay into the Highway Trust Fund — which is funded by the per - gallon tax on gasoline and pays for road construction and upkeep.