Sentences with phrase «large city systems»

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Austin infrastructure is strong with an international airport and, unlike other large Texas cities, a strong public transit system.

Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

Why then, should we pay to dig large and expensive tunnels between cities when we could build smaller systems inside a city that serve more people?

Until this summer, Dallas was America's largest city with no bike - share system; the arrival of several thousand bicycles operated by a handful of private companies has given it, overnight, one of the country's largest fleets of shared bikes.

In 2001, the city came close to outsourcing its water and wastewater systems control in what would have been the largest private procurement of its kind in the United States.

The current largest employers in the city are Berkshire Health Systems and Berkshire Concrete Corporation.

A freeway system must be built, and to make room for it large sections of the city must be torn down.

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

Tyson Foods, the nation's largest chicken producer, has taken «full responsibility» for accidentally releasing an acidic chemical used in chicken feed into the city of Monett, Missouri's wastewater treatment system that resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 fish.

(Under the current system, which stipulates that teams share equally in all national and international television revenue, there's a considerable disparity in local TV income, with large - market teams, such as the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks, receiving amounts that dwarf those earned by teams in smaller cities, such as the Utah Jazz and the Vancouver Grizzlies.)

The financial linchpin in those plans is the renovation of Burnham Harbor, the city's largest harbor, which is responsible for about one - third of the revenues generated by the district's harbor system.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

The new playground — the largest in the City of Raleigh park system — is designed to take children of all mental and physical abilities to new heights of play and imagination.

With a large storage basket underneath the seat, and a cupholder for you, this stroller system is the perfect choice for long days out, errands, family vacations, or simply zipping around your city.

The largest food vendor for the District's public school system has agreed to pay $ 19 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged the city and mismanaged the school meals programs, with food often arriving at schools late, spoiled or in short supply.

The Legislature and governor ended the extraordinary session by granting a two - year extension of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending months of uncertainty over Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership of the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students a day before it was to expire.

«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.

The MTA discriminates against people with disabilities because of its widespread lack of elevators and electric lifts in the subway system, rendering it significantly more inaccessible than other cities with large public transportation systems, according to two lawsuits filed yesterday.

At 8:30 a.m., NYC Councilman Corey Johnson moderates a panel discussion on The Future of Large Public Hospital Systems: How New York City Can Learn from the Experience of LA County, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th floor, Manhattan.

New York City's sprawling public housing system — the largest in the U.S. — needs an estimated $ 25 billion of repairs, up from $ 6 billion in 2005.

New York City's subway is one of the oldest and largest subway systems in the world and many of the escalators...

The divestment represents the latest move by the city's pension funds to dissociate the city's $ 160 billion worth of assets, one of the largest public pension systems in the country, from gun retailers, and firearm and ammunitions manufacturers in response to a wave of mass shootings.

One issue that could loom large in the 2018 election is the status of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City's mass transit system.

City officials, Cuomo and lawmakers have blamed each other while the country's largest mass transit system continues to languish, forcing commuters to put up with chronic delays, breakdowns and service interruptions.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer sCity Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer scity's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer sCity Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

At the time James proposed the divestment, New York City's five pension funds owned more than five million shares in Walmart, and NYCERS, the pension system's largest fund, held 1.4 million Walmart shares.

«I am very confident that our extensive, national search has found New York City the best person to lead the nation's largest school system into the future,» he said.

According to the Cuomo administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the ongoing discussions have not yet been formalized, the chief executives of the largest employers in New York City are willing to consider the move to a payroll tax system.

The Guardian took to the task of examining the accessibility of some of the world's largest subway systems, including London, Barcelona, Paris, Tokyo, Washington D.C., and New York City, of course.

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Cuomo said the fine for littering in the New York City subway system will double from $ 50 to $ 100 as part of a larger effort to reduce delays related to track fires caused by debris.

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The next New York City mayor will take control of the nation's largest school system.

New York City's subway is one of the oldest and largest subway systems in the world and many of the escalators and elevators are showing their age.

Indeed, in many ways the budget process this year has been similar to ones in years past, except in one crucial respect: Mr. Cuomo's opening salvo, his executive budget, proposed shifting to New York City nearly $ 500 million in costs for the City University of New York system and requiring City Hall to contribute a larger share of the payments for the federal Medicaid program.

James «Jake» Short, superintendent of the Plattsburgh City School District, mentioned how though opioids have a larger footprint in his school system, he's had five alumni pass away in as many years because of heroin.

Having some of the city's largest health systems as well as two renowned cancer centers in upstate New York express an interest provides some validity to Cuomo's pot plan, which has been derided by legislators and advocates as «limited» and «cumbersome.»

The new system, announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio during his second State of the City address on Tuesday, would be the largest municipal ferry service by ridership in the United States.

Despite this, ExxonMobil is the second largest investment of the New York City Employee Retirement System at a staggering $ 251 million.

Fields is one of more than 400,000 residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the country's largest public housing system, who stands to be impacted by the executive order signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo declaring a state of emergency this past Mon., Apr. 2nd.

The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today.

The wage increase announced by Cuomo affects workers of the State University of New York (SUNY)-- but not those within the City University of New York (CUNY), the country's largest urban public university system.

Since New York City's tax system and tax policy are in large part defined by State law, the City and the State are in active discussion about adopting coincident measures.

One of the largest university systems in the country, CUNY sees itself as one of the only affordable pathways to opportunity for the city's underprivileged.

Carvalho had already privately accepted the job as New York City schools chancellor, which would have made him chief of the nation's largest school system.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful oSystem for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful osystem and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

Some of the state's largest and most politically active unions have lined up in support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's plan to overhaul the state's campaign finance laws and create a New York City - style system of public financing.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

Military spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from rural areas.