Sentences with phrase «as road projects»

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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.

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.

Crises once dismissed as mere speed bumps on the road to an ever closer union now have the potential to unravel the project even further.

A joint venture between BGC Contracting and Laing O'Rourke has been confirmed as the successful bidder for a $ 417 million contract to deliver the second stage of the Northlink WA roads project.

I had interviewed Bland in the months after the attacks on September 11, 2001, as part of an extended road trip / writing project about Americans and their stories.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Silk Road projects hit financingroadblocks

Five Balkan states currently in the process of negotiating their accession to the EU, and 11 existing members, make up the China - led 16 +1 initiative, which Beijing has sought to use as a platform for its «Belt and Road Initiative», President Xi Jinping's pet project to expand intercontinental trade and infrastructure links.

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

All roads in progressive philanthropy seem to lead to Lord, who runs NEO Philanthropy, formerly known as Public Interest Projects, and also directs the Ottinger Foundation.

What benefits are countries already seeing from this project and what new innovations could emerge as a result of this connected road?

Of course China can generate more demand by exporting more capital to the developing world, as it proposes to do with OBOR and the New Silk Road projects.

The recently released Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard identified inadequate public transit and road infrastructure as a major obstacle to our regional prosperity, and Metro Vancouver's resistance to this project only exacerbates the issues we are facing.

Governments generally get a much bigger stimulus bang for their buck when they spend directly on projects, such as roads and bridges, rather than giving cheques or tax breaks to individuals, who may choose to bank the money instead of spending it.

China has already spent approximately $ 180 billion to complete various projects, but many billions more will go toward building roads, ports, dams, high - speed rail, airports and more — all to «enhance regional connectivity,» as President Xi Jinping put it, and strengthen China's economic clout.

«We've got enormous gravel demand on the horizon for the Gateway Project and other public building priorities moving forward,» said Mike Proudfoot, spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, who expects the Pitt River Bridge / South Perimeter Road to enter Environmental Assessment as soon as this summer.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

The big news is that Waymo's self - driving cars — previously known as Google's self - driving project — navigated public roads without human intervention four times better than it did last year.

China has committed US$ 50 billion to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (a multilateral investment bank to support infrastructure projects in Asia's developing countries), as well as US$ 40 billion for the Silk Road Fund which will see China lead overland and maritime links throughout Central Asia and provide quicker shipping routes to the European market.

Most of these bonds are used to finance public projects, such as the creation of schools and the repair of roads and they usually pay a monthly dividend, so you can expect a very fast partial return on your investment.

This research area covers the evaluation of the costs and benefits of capital projects of Canadian governments, such as roads, ports or public utilities, of financing modes for such projects, such as public - private partnerships, and the contribution of public infrastructure to economic growth.

A strategic road map is essential for enterprise content initiatives, as it helps everyone in your organization understand the opportunities and challenges involved, prioritize projects, and execute on each effort with a shared purpose in mind.

A hefty chunk also goes to heavy industry and to long - term projects such as roads and railways.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

Maduro indicated that the company's projects likely to be undertaken within the next 10 months will include refurbishing the Rite Way store in the heart of the capital, Road Town, as well as the Fine Food Store in East End.

Fork in the Road received Non-GMO Project Verification after a rigorous testing process to ensure all animal feed and product ingredients, as well as their manufacturing plant, met the Non-GMO Project Standard.

Road trips to Cincinnati, UAB, and Tulsa are tenuous (and would be projected wins at home), and S&P + projects the Wave as outright favorites in just two games, with five relative tossups.

As you will be aware, our construction project at Iffley Road includes refurbishment of the women's wetside changing rooms.

The decision to pursue a recreational project needs to be explored in relation to other village needs such as road improvements, said Trustee Brad O'Halloran, who did say he supported the concept.

He said the village has taken the first step by including a bike path along the southern portion of Douglas as part of the Kensington Road project.

Alhaji Benne, who is also the former Chairman of the National Hajj Committee, said developmental projects such as construction of roads, schools, health facilities, drainages, water among others are the priorities of the NDC government.

APC notes however that «the fraud behind the Saakpenwa - Bori - Kono Road has been uncovered as the governor deliberately refused to mention that the project is in phases.

At a meeting in the manhyia place earlier today where President Mahama called on the Asantehene at the manhyia palace, the Asante monarch, Otumfuo listed projects such as the Kumasi Central market, the over one thousand hospital beds to be added to the Ashanti region's hospital bed stock few months from now, the road and water projects, the military hospital, among others as achievements the president must continue selling to electorates.

Aregbesola who described the quality of his projects like roads, schools among others as enduring said his government through the construction of roads, has provided for future population explosion in the state.

Such omission can lead to serious bias in the assessments of environmental impacts as well as the economic viability of proposed road projects, especially in situations where there is a latent demand for more road capacity.

«We have secured investment to allow us to go ahead with important projects such as high speed rail, support for ultra-low carbon cars and major road - building and public transport programmes.»

As part of the project, there are a lot of draining works that are going to be done, he said, adding, they are meant to address the issue of flooding which occurs on the road yearly.

Fewer than 10 percent of the projects on the initial SMFP list appear to involve core infrastructure improvements such as road, bridge, sewer or water system repairs.

The President said he was of the firm belief that his government has done a lot for the country in the past three years as evident in the execution of some projects such as roads, electricity, water and education among others.

Shadow transport secretary Chris Grayling said that although he accepted the need for short - term projects, such as cutting congestion on certain roads, Britain's long - term transport needs may require some new major infrastructure projects.

In a welcome address, the Chief of Amasu Dormaa, Barima Dei Kusi Gyaba thanked the First Lady and government for the development projects in the District such as Schools, markets, streets lights and good roads.

«This is not unlike other capital appropriations for roads, infrastructure and economic development that are accessed throughout the year for critical projects as needs emerge but that are not specifically lined out in the budget.»

«Frankly, I have no faith in the traffic plan presented to us, and the threat of a weekly Saturday morning traffic Armageddon along Arthur Kill Road easily outweighs the value of reclaiming this stretch of waterfront and the other comparatively limited positives I saw as potentially emanating from this project,» Oddo said in a statement.

As fall weather settles in, Erie County highway crews are starting their last major road project of the season.

He also gave initial funding for several large infrastructure projects, such as High Speed 3 (an east — west rail line across the north of England), Crossrail 2 (a north — south rail line across London), a road tunnel across the Pennines, and upgrades to the M62 motorway.

These Make the Road literacy or training programs are always folded into a larger project of «worker organizing» or «empowerment,» which require recipients to attend political meetings as an implicit condition of getting services that are, in fact, city - funded.

Boston Road is one of the first projects to use the New York State Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) capital funding to employ housing as a strategy for reducing health care costs.

Some mentioned projects such as the Kumasi Shoe factory, the ultra modern Kejetia Market, which will be the biggest in Africa, Kumasi Shoe Factory, providing sandals for basic schools and the security services, Military Hospital, Asawase Market, Rattray Park; recreational park located in Kumasi, asphaltic roads, Mampong Water project, Kumasi Airport expansion, Tepa district hospital.

The access road from Route 5 to the FedEx Ground Transport distribution plant in Hamburg will be known as Mike Bartlett Way, after the man who shepherded the $ 51 million project from the first inquiry about vacant land to its opening in 2016.

He stated then that the State presently has a design for the reconstruction of the road as well as the funds to embark on the project but was yet to get the go ahead from the Federal Government.

According to him, President John Mahama has done many development projects, citing the Circle interchange and Kasoa interchange, other roads in and around Korle Gonno and as such must be praised for his efforts.