Sentences with phrase «tunnel project in»

Prior to joining Foley Hoag, Jeff was the Manager of Right of Way for the Central Artery / Tunnel Project in Boston.
Newsom has supported Brown's proposal to move water during dry times from Northern California to Southern California through a $ 16 billion tunnel project in the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta.
Trump Threatens Veto Over Gateway Tunnel Funding President Donald Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway Tunnel Project in New York City, according to multiple sources.
Commuters in recent weeks have directed their frustrations with the delays at Christie, who killed a tunnel project in 2010, citing design issues and potential cost overruns.
Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway tunnel project in New York City, complicating the outlook for the $ 1 trillion - plus spending measure, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to pass before government funding runs out on March 23.

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The Santa Clara water district in October approved only a limited role in the project under the condition that Brown scale it back to include just one tunnel.
Deteriorating transit conditions have led to renewed criticism of Christie for canceling a new Hudson River rail tunnel project soon after taking office in 2010, saying the cost to his state was too high.
Down in the tunnel, meanwhile, the Mneefah continues to methodically chew its way through the sandstone, doing its part to keep the project on schedule for completion and testing in late 2018.
He leads rocket maker SpaceX and is dabbling in other projects, including high - speed transit, artificial intelligence research and a new company that's digging tunnels beneath Los Angeles to alleviate traffic congestion.
In particular, the Board of Trade would like to see focus expanded to include other projects necessary to the growth of our region, such as the replacement of the George Massey Tunnel, improved port and rail capacity across the region, and a six - lane replacement for the aging Pattullo Bridge in cooperation with TransLinIn particular, the Board of Trade would like to see focus expanded to include other projects necessary to the growth of our region, such as the replacement of the George Massey Tunnel, improved port and rail capacity across the region, and a six - lane replacement for the aging Pattullo Bridge in cooperation with TransLinin cooperation with TransLink.
For the past four years, chambers of commerce and boards of trade from across our region have actively participated in each round of consultation and engagement for the Massey Tunnel replacement project.
The Gateway Project would add an $ 11 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River to complement deteriorating, century - old tunnels that are at risk of closing in a few years.
The Boring Company might appear to be a side project for Elon Musk, but the tunneling startup has managed to take significant strides forward in the last few months.
On Jan. 25, Musk tweeted that his company will start digging a tunnel in a month's time, though the project is still currently limited to company property.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Washington today with fellow elected officials from the metropolitan region to discuss the Gateway tunnel project, an underwater connector between New York and New Jersey, at the White House.
In the weeks after President Donald Trump's election, Cuomo had expressed hope to work with the new administration on large - scale infrastructure projects like the Gateway tunnel.
Combine this with an effort to bring the funding for the tunnel project cancelled by NJ Governor Christie and Governor - elect Cuomo could be having a profound positive impact on the NYS economy well before he is even sworn in.
The Government authorised a Channel Tunnel Rail Link project to overcome this problem, which in turn attracted widespread controversy over the route to be followed.
«That's right, the same Chris Christie who killed the much - needed ARC Tunnel project — a decision that cost our region 150,000 jobs and $ 9 billion in economic activity — just to score points with the radical right wing of his party.»
«It's a spectacular multi-million dollar municipal project commissioned by the Governor of New York, of which we're supplying US$ 65M in products and systems for the nine bridges and four tunnels surrounding the city.»
«The Gateway Tunnel is critical to the long - term vitality of the entire Northeast region and one of the most important infrastructure projects in the country,» Cuomo said in a statement.
A program to install Art Deco - style towers in front of the city's bridges and tunnels has come under heavy scrutiny this week after it was revealed that the MTA had set aside $ 100 million for the project, in the midst of a subway crisis.
The project that is most advanced in the capital, the plan for a tunnel under the Thames at Silvertown just east of the Blackwall tunnel, raises many of the same issues.
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To ensure «we don't lose any momentum with the third track, East Side Access tunnel and the new Penn Station projects,» Cuomo should nominate someone with commuter rail experience «in addition to the traditional urban bus and subway management experience,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.
The governor's office says these and other instances of LED upgrades and architectural embellishments in the MTA's two tunnels are post-Hurricane Sandy repair projects that have nothing to do with the New York Crossings project, and federal emergency relief funds and the MTA's prior capital plan are paying for them.
In his «State of the State» speech on Wednesday, the governor said the state Department of Transportation will consider a tunnel project that an independent consultant found would cost up to $ 4.5 billion and take up to 10 years to complete.
Experts say the project is vital to New York City's transportation system and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, and problems in the existing 105 - year - old tunnel have caused delays in the already congested and delay - plagued rail system.
«In the same vein, I strongly support the construction of the new Hudson River tunnel — and a federal grant package that makes the project viable is an essential first step.»
In 2010, Christie cancelled a tunnel project, known as Access to the Region's Core, but he's now on board with the idea as long as «appropriate and fair funding» is provided by the federal government and both states on either side of the Hudson.
The New York Crossings Project will lead the nation by encompassing all MTA - operated bridges and tunnels in New York City, plus the George Washington Bridge.
The list also includes two expensive projects in the president's home town, New York City, a major subway extension and new rail tunnels under the Hudson River.
In recognition of this threat, the New York Crossings Project will integrate emerging technologies into the security design of bridges and tunnels across the state, deploying additional personnel and equipment.
Cuomo in a lengthy statement on Thursday criticized «senseless cuts» to the Department of Transportation, including funding for the Gateway Tunnel project between New York and New Jersey, as well as slashes in spending for the National Institute of Health.
Now, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is offering his own plan to jump - start a project to take some of the load off two tunnels that experts say are already at capacity and in need of significant repairs.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Washington, D.C. to meet with President Trump and other metropolitan area officials to discuss the Gateway Tunnel project, but has nothing public planned.
Dueling infrastructure proposals from Trump's team and U.S. Senate Democrats went public yesterday that could bring billions in federal money to New York projects like the Second Avenue subway and new Hudson River tunnels.
In September, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sent a joint letter to President Obama offering to help pay for the new tunnel and making an alternative suggestion on how the project should be managed.
With the two Hudson rail tunnels threatening to give up the ghost on a moment's notice, the Gateway project, which would add two more and still barely keep up with growth in ridership, hardly qualifies as a frill.
A group that backs changes to the Scaffold Law in New York in a analysis released Tuesday found the law is adding as much as $ 300 million to the cost of the Gateway tunnel project between New York and New Jersey.
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while laying out his 2018 legislative agenda during a speech in Albany, said transportation officials would include a tunnel option to replace I - 81 in a major project report.
Nicotra, the suburban town supervisor, said he was rooting for a tunnel, despite the tunnel projects being a nonstarter in the city.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's on Wednesday announced that transportation officials will include a contentious tunnel option in a draft environmental impact statement as part of the Interstate 81 replacement project.
If New York officials move forward with an I - 81 tunnel, the state could end up waiting decades for full funding from the federal government, which has covered 80 percent of such projects in the past, Osborne said.
In a speech at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the governor noted the density of proposed and ongoing projects around the midtown transportation hub: state - federal plans to convert the the James Farley Post Office across the street from Penn Station into the Moynihan Train Hall, and to construct the Gateway Tunnel, a new Amtrak line under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has asked contractors of the underground tunnel which connects East Legon to Spintex in Accra, Sonitra to complete the project by close of next month.
«The tunnel plug is an innovative and groundbreaking technology that can protect subway tunnels from flooding,» said John Fortune, Program Manager in S&T's Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA).
India is also embarking on a $ 168 billion National River Linking Project that envisages constructing more than 15,000 kilometers of canals and tunnels to shunt water to parched areas of the country; the government allocated $ 16.6 million in the coming year for preparatory work.
Congress canceled the project in 1993 after spending $ 2 billion (300 times the site's current price) to construct eight buildings and 14 miles of underground tunnels.
The Water Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy describes as «a survival policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cut off.
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