Sentences with phrase «including aging infrastructure»

The report, entitled Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness — 2015 Update, demonstrates how a variety of factors, including aging infrastructure, more stringent environmental regulations and lower natural gas prices, are converging to make the majority of coal plants uneconomic.

Even though their ridership is nowhere near the Big Apple's, upstate New York's largest public transit face many of the same challenges their big - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for service.

The outgoing Auditor General expressed concerns about a number of significant and emerging pressures facing the Government, including an ageing infrastructure, and ageing population and insufficient progress in addressing Aboriginal pressures on reserves.

While the 100RC programme identifies 11 shocks, from a nuclear incident to civil unrest, the one that stands out for Evangelinos in terms of a vibrant downtown is the possibility of «financial and / or economic crisis», while possible stresses (from a list of 37) could include aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, uncontrolled urban development and an undiversified economy.

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This includes $ 2.3 billion for the replacement of the aging Massey Tunnel with a new 10 - lane bridge, $ 731 million in transit infrastructure, $ 198 million for Highway 1 Lower Lynn Corridor improvements at the north end of the Second Narrows Bridge, and $ 70 million for the new, seventh counter-flow lane on the Alex Fraser Bridge.

The first budget of Premier Rachel Notley «s NDP government includes a 15 percent increase in capital spending over the next five years, with a goal to create jobs and tackle the province's aging and neglected hospitals, schools, roads and other public infrastructure.

These included the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit and the restoration of the age of eligibility for federal pensions to 65 from 67, coupled with increased infrastructure spending in the March 2016 Budget.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Congress to «come together and compromise» on a $ 1 trillion infrastructure spending package that would include funding to repair the region's aging rail system.

The budget includes infrastructure investments, college affordability and raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old.

The government has shown its commitment to replacing our ageing energy infrastructure, and the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) proposals are intended to provide the economic and commercial underpinning to investments in a range of low - carbon technologies, including nuclear.

While they may disagree on many policy issues Miner and DeFrancisco agreed on the need to invest in aging infrastructure such as pipes and roads and faulted Cuomo's efforts to boost the upstate economy, which include tax breaks for start - up companies and competitive regional economic development awards.

Other issues still on the table include: education spending, college affordability, raise the age, water infrastructure spending, workers comp reform and subsidies for three upstate nuclear plants.

«The Governor is committed to utilizing the settlement money in a fiscally responsible way, including one - time allocations to replace aging infrastructure, rebuild upstate cities and help local governments cut costs and lower property taxes,» she said in a prepared statement.

But she noted that none of the $ 3 billion in infrastructure improvements from Cuomo include money to help failing water systems in aging cities like Syracuse.

The budget deal is likely to include $ 2 billion to $ 2.5 billion for water quality and upgrades to aging water infrastructure, Republican Senate Leader John Flanagan said, as well as $ 163 million to make college tuition more affordable.

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.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz noted his commitment to fully investing in Erie County's (the «County») aging infrastructure by highlighting the increased funding for capital projects included in his 2013 Erie County Proposed Budget («Proposed Budget»).

Mr. Cuomo has hinted occasionally at the makings of a broad, if workmanlike, agenda for the next four years: creating jobs, particularly upstate; rebuilding infrastructure, including upgrading New York's aging airports; demanding better performance from the state's public schools.

Although reducing funding to three government councils that provide grants to scientists, the budget includes $ 1.62 billion over 2 years to retrofit aging academic buildings as part of a $ 10 billion investment in all manner of infrastructure.

Trump has stated some of his goals for energy and infrastructure on his Web site, which include encouraging fossil fuel development and updating aging water systems.

Representatives discussed the problems with current ICT infrastructure in their schools, including outdated software, poor internet connections, lack of or ageing hardware and unacceptably limited capacity on computer networks, meaning multiple pupils can not use school computers at the same time.

Other factors included increased building costs — think bigger and fancier homes — and aging infrastructure.

Both also depend on aging infrastructure that has already been stressed by climate hazards including heat waves, as well as coastal and riverine flooding due to a combination of sea level rise, storm surge, and extreme precipitation events.

The announcement has followed other recent commitments from political parties that address physical inactivity, including the Coalition's pledge to provide an extra $ 60m for the Sporting Schools program, Labor commitment to an «active ageing fund» and an extra $ 21m to the ABC to provide greater coverage of women's sport; and the Greens $ 250m plan for cycling and walking infrastructure.

All of these and other domestic initiatives the president referenced, including a public - private effort for rebuilding the country's aging bridges, ports, and other infrastructure, are intended to help boost the economy and the middle class, which he said has been disproportionately hard hit for the past decade.