Sentences with phrase «city infrastructure because»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner told state legislators today that Syracuse has 57 unfilled police positions and is increasingly unable to pay for basic repairs to city infrastructure because of the «fiscal crisis» that is gripping cities.

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Voom choose Mexico City because of its dedicated air traffic control and helicopter infrastructure, such as some 200 helipads, Subramanian said.

Atlanta stands out from other startup cities because its established companies and startup infrastructure focus on building businesses that bring in real revenue.

As David Dayen wrote for The New Republic during the first round of the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes, «[T] hey're worse than a zero - sum game between metropolitan areas; they're net - negative, because the corporation extracts the subsidy while cities lose revenue that would otherwise go to education or infrastructure investment to benefit the common good.»

Currently, these instant online services are mostly limited to tier - 1 and tier - 2 Chinese cities because of the cold food chain infrastructure.

Virginia was chosen for the construction of the new facility against Maryland and West Virginia, because the city has the necessary infrastructure and skilled workforce.

It didn't help that Greece frittered away three years after being named the 2004 host city in 1997, especially because Athens needed more infrastructure work than any previous Olympic city, according to Denis Oswald of Switzerland, the IOC's coordination commission chairman.

«If you look at a map of the city of Albany, we are at the center of it, and it's accessible by buses, it's also the scene of the revitalization that's occurring because of the bike infrastructure that's happening.

Since April, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said the city has filled more than 3,200 potholes more than usual because of new technology that provides better data for fixing infrastructure.

The commission predicted that some New York City hospitals would close in future years because of high overhead and infrastructure costs and changing national trends in health care delivery.

She called him an «infrastructure king» because «infrastructure is in his DNA,» saying that the city «could have used you 100 years ago.»

The Friends of the High Line have long supported the proposal, largely because Jamestown would have to donate roughly $ 17 to $ 19 million to the High Line Improvement Fund, a city - run pool of cash that pays for maintenance of the park's infrastructure.

«I must admit there's a question about whether business as usual is even plausible, because many cities are going to run into infrastructure constraints and space constraints at some point,» he said of rapidly growing vehicle adoption.

Frank said the study focused on urban areas because the infrastructure in cities causes them to be a few degrees hotter than surrounding rural areas.

On top of this, we continue to lobby strongly for the development of the charging [infrastructure], because we think that this is one of the main reasons for which today we have a handicap into the development of the sales — making sure that the cities and states and countries are putting the right investments for this.

yes there is an initial carbon cost, but these cars will run years and thousands of miles and a city full of them the air would be pristine, thats what matters and more and more they will be charged from a wind and solar expanding infrastructure so its all going to get cleaner and cleaner as time and uptake catches on, this is the future and more manufacturers will now grab this and realise that all there models will go this way, not for enviromental reasons but because they will be cheaper to run, service, performance, every which way they are a win.

Some cities around the Greater Toronto Area have passed by - laws to prohibit such activities because the influx of people in the communities is so large the social services and infrastructure of the areas can't handle the surging population growth.

A representative from Walmart said the company chose to start in Thunder Bay because the stores in the northern Ontario city have the infrastructure to easily make the change.

And then also what we would want is to pass on this cost and this is where we had the residential garbage fee because the Belize City Council's main responsibility of the Mayor is the City infrastructure, streets and drains, and that's what we're doing.

I played the hell out of city building games like SimCity because I had hours upon hours to ensure the infrastructure of my city was perfect.

So what we've been lacking is the government support that improves technology and infrastructure associated with things like this solar city, because it is too big and is a long - term project.

We want to make sure that the new ideas get customers — like city fleets or buses — because it's easier to change over the infrastructure because they go back to a hub on a regular cycle.

I'm tired of feeling like an irresponsible lout, like a punk because I don't follow traffic laws in a city that has made minimal efforts to create laws and infrastructure that keep me safe.

Most of the region's population lives in cities, which are particularly vulnerable to climate change related flooding and life - threatening heat waves because of aging infrastructure and other factors.

As Dunedinites, we each have a significant carbon footprint simply because of the carbon footprint and low energy efficiency of much of the city's infrastructure.

But in developed countries, and increasingly in emerging markets, city dwellers are able to be more environmentally friendly than those in the countryside, because of the concentration of people, vital infrastructure and amenities, and the efficiencies that this proximity brings.

This is not because humans could not live, and perhaps thrive, under a different climate regime, but because our whole civilization with its attendant infrastructure of cities, roads, farms, etc. has evolved to be as well adapted as possible to the current climate.

I wasn't lost in the sense that a bicyclist can be lost in many American cities, where a trail or bike lane unceremoniously ends and it is not clear where to go to reconnect to a bike route, but lost because I had followed the nicest looking bike infrastructure and that happened to not be the City's signature loop.

Because of its population density and concentrated infrastructure, the City is not well suited for traditional post-disaster housing, such as mobile homes.

Of course there's no guarantee that because a certain route is popular with cyclist that it will get special attention and infrastructure, but it certainly is a best way to send a message than just hoping that TA employees will survey the whole city and notice where cyclists are going (it's easy to count how many cyclists pass a certain point, but it's harder to know the starting point and end goal of each individual rider).

The expansion of Fiber in San Francisco, is rather a tough task for Google, as the city is highly challenging because of its infrastructure and geographic constraints, so instead of coming up with a fresh system, the search engine giant will use current, spare fiber.

Because of the turnaround, we had already experienced business confidence, plus the infrastructure the City developed to facilitate the World Cup (such as the MyCiTi bus rapid transit network), suddenly many locals realised the CBD was once again a great place to be and still had a great deal of potential.