Most notably, some are calling for an increase in gasoline taxes to fund
additional road and bridge repairs.
Additional road and bridge work, including major bridge replacements, micropaving and oil and chipping, will take place in numerous municipalities across the county including Whitehaven Road in Grand Island, Center Street in Aurora / Holland and Boston State Road in Hamburg / Boston.
Not exact matches
One area that New Yorkers would like to see some
additional dollars, moreso coming from the $ 5 billion surplus than anyplace else, is in terms of both local
and state infrastructure: 27 percent say use some of that money for local infrastructure,
bridges,
roads,
and an
additional 15 percent say let's increase the quality of state
roads.»
The Erie County Legislature is being asked to approve a request from the Poloncarz administration for
additional money for
road and bridge repairs.
Unfortunately, the administration controls
road work and despite the Legislature finding additional funding for road work last year, the County Executive still chose not to repair Swift Mills Road Bri
road work
and despite the Legislature finding
additional funding for
road work last year, the County Executive still chose not to repair Swift Mills Road Bri
road work last year, the County Executive still chose not to repair Swift Mills
Road Bri
Road Bridge.
She wants to reinvest any
additional federal money the state receives to improve
roads and bridges as well as the city's transit system.
Hein outlined proposals to spend an
additional $ 15 million on
road and bridge improvements in 2018, pushing the total county investment over four years to $ 60 million.
The move would raise nearly $ 1.5 billion in
additional revenue annually to help the financially strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority meet the growing mass transit needs of this city while keeping fares reasonable,
and maintaining
and upgrading a vast
and aging transportation infrastructure, including
roads and bridges.
Meantime, the county would still have
additional leftover revenue to spend on
roads and bridges.
Republicans in the Erie County Legislature are calling for an
additional $ 5 million in reserve funds to be added to the $ 36.5 million already in the county budget for infrastructure improvements to
roads and bridges.
This initial phase, which is funded with the TIFIA Loan, includes (i) the construction of two reversible lanes with associated exit / entrance ramps between Valley View Lanes
and Turbeville
Road; (ii) the construction of managed lanes from south of IH35E — IH635 interchange to Valley View Lane; (iii) reconfiguration
and rehabilitation of general purpose lanes from IH635 to Corinth Parkway; (iv) the construction of direct connectors to Sam Rayburn Tollway; (v) the reconfiguration
and / or widening of general purpose lanes
and the construction of an
additional general purpose lane in each direction from Sam Rayburn Tollway to US380; (vi) the construction, reconstruction, widening or rehabilitation of various frontage
roads, interchanges,
and bridges; (vii) the construction of a collector - distributor system between President George Bush Turnpike
and Sam Rayburn Tollway; (viii) the construction of a new
bridge and re-purposing of the existing
bridge over Lake Lewisville;
and (ix) associated mitigation projects.