Sentences with phrase «local bridges»

Communities around New York state will soon be eligible to apply for $ 250 million to help replace and repair local bridges, with priority given to bridges with the greatest needs.

A year later the toll was codified into federal highway legislation and to this day remains the only local bridge toll in the U.S.A. to be under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

Specific investments undertaken by the New York Works Infrastructure Fund include replacing deficient state and local bridges in every region of the state, rehabilitating dams and flood control infrastructure, renovating parks, rebuilding water systems, conducting energy retrofits on homes, farms, businesses, and schools, as well as accelerating major SUNY and CUNY projects.

However, due to programs such as BRIDGE NY, the Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) and other programs, the overall percentage of structurally deficient local bridges declined from 16.7 percent to 12.8 percent from 2002 to 2016, according to the report.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing for more federal money to help fix local bridges.

Nearly 300 local bridges across Western New York are out of date or in need of repair, US Sen. Chuck Schumer announced as he launched a push for more federal funding to help fix those spans.

Grand Island Town Supervisor Nathan McMurray and other island officials publicly launched a new effort to pressure Cuomo to eliminate local bridge tolls.

Despite the gloomy outlook, DiNapoli expressed optimism that the state could work with the federal government on shoring up outdated infrastructure, including $ 27 billion for the state's local bridges alone.

There would be reductions in the Local Transportation Capital Improvement Program, which covers local bridge and road projects.

We have quite a few jumpers off of a tiny local bridge here in NJ; if a call box and message were posted there I know the # of deaths would drop.

There's a corpse under local bridge and two FBI agents have been dispatched separately to investigate and bring the perpetrator to justice.

ALBANY — Communities around New York state will soon be eligible to apply for $ 250 million to help replace and repair local bridges.

Still, the overall percentage of structurally deficient local bridges has actually declined from 16.7 percent to 12.8 percent between 2002 and 2016.

STATE COMPTROLLER SAYS OVER $ 27 BILLION NEEDED TO FIX LOCAL BRIDGES A report released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found that 20.7 % of bridges in New York are functionally obsolete and 12.8 % are structurally deficient.

Therefore, local roads, local bridges, power connections, storage facilities and anything related to the construction, operation or maintenance of the pipeline becomes the jurisdiction of the Government of Canada.

That plan includes $ 1 billion to replace, rehabilitate and maintain at least 200 key state and local bridges; $ 1 billion for up to 1,300 miles worth of state and local road - paving projects; and $ 500 million for investments in roadways susceptible to flooding and other extreme weather events.

Walker said his plan for the next budget involves an investment of 25 percent more than the last budget for the Local Road Improvement Program, $ 65 million in new aid to local governments and «the largest increase to the Local Bridge Improvement Program in over 20 years.»

Several roads and culverts were damaged during storms on June 14th and local bridges were damaged as well.

And the governor isn't stopping at additional manpower to make his presence known, he's also having the state's local bridge - and - tunnel enforcement vehicles painted in the troopers» yellow - and - blue to make his presence more widely felt.

That plan includes $ 1 billion to replace, rehabilitate and maintain at least 200 key state and local bridges; $ 1 billion for up to 1,300 miles worth of state and local road - paving projects; and $ 500 million for investments in roadways susceptible to flooding and other extreme weather events, according to the governor's office.

NYSDOT estimates 974 local bridges will become deficient within five years if needed work is not performed on them in a timely manner.

The report found that local bridges — which include 8,834 of 17,462 bridges across New York State — are more likely to be structurally deficient than state - owned bridges.

In the example from my previous blog, students made recommendations for retrofitting a local bridge and presented this information to city officials and engineers.

Moreover, together with other museums in the neighbourhood, Punta della Dogana takes part in the project Venice Art for All, that aims at making the area of Dorsoduro accessible by installing ramps on the local bridges.

This the third extension and it faces over the site of medieval fortifications and towards a local bridge.

The report indicates that the original accident occurred on a local bridge and involved a freight truck, a car - carrier truck, and a flatbed truck.