Sentences with phrase «creaking infrastructure»

But some municipalities are commissioning private partnerships to build and operate new facilities or modernize creaking infrastructure, either because they are short of money or because they want someone else to shoulder the risks of construction delays or unexpectedly high maintenance and operating costs.

Our creaking infrastructure:: Sustainable and Sound Infrastructure Now.

Energy inefficiency, creaking infrastructure (increasing transmission and distribution losses), lowering of water tables and electricity theft all have to be taken care of at once.

As the leading champion of the High Speed 2 rail line from London to Birmingham, it was hoped he could overhaul Britain's creaking infrastructure.

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Given the state of the UK's creaking transport infrastructure, especially outside London, it is staggering that Johnson and the government are pouring so much funding into a project which has such little transport benefit.

Our infrastructure is creaking, particularly outside of London: we need to be able to invest, upgrade and modernise.

The House of Lords is an ancient institution creaking its way into the 21st century, and its infrastructure will struggle to cope with this latest influx.

Our health infrastructure is creaking as well: Food safeguards are lax and outdated, giving rise to outbreaks of E. coli involving everything from ground beef to cookie dough.

To make matters worse, Goodwin notes, the court infrastructure is creaking.

That Bitcoin goldrush caused Mt.Gox to struggle with the influx, and BTC traders to take fright at what they thought was a DDoS attack on the exchange — but was in fact Mt.Gox's infrastructure creaking under the strength of demand.