Sentences with phrase «of highway bridges»

The Secretary shall establish and maintain inspection standards for the proper inspection and evaluation of all highway bridges and tunnels for safety and serviceability.

to use a data - driven, risk - based approach and cost - effective strategy for systematic preventative maintenance, replacement, and rehabilitation of highway bridges and tunnels to ensure safety and extended service life;

After opening a recent town board meeting with a moment of silence to honor Norman, Quigley explained that there were already discussions underway about how best to commemorate Norman «by seeking out the dedication of a highway bridge or street in his memory.»

The Tanbark Trail, located on the south side of the highway bridge, is a 7 miles (11 km) round trip hike with a total 2,000 feet (610 m) elevation gain.

Not exact matches

At the end of October, the Highway Trust Fund becomes insolvent, lacking the funding it needs to continue projects that repair and build the nation's federal, state, and local highways, bridges, tunnels and mass transit programs.

In the United States, those systems, the backbones of our highways, bridges, levees, power grids and pipelines are crumbling.

And that more proverbial «bridges and highways to nowhere» continue to take precedence over family support policies that could serve as a formidable engine of economic growth.

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

BGC Contracting has won a contract to manage a $ 58 million upgrade to a section of highway in NSW, including construction of 300 - metre long bridge.

For instance, last fall his council urged the federal government to ante up $ 40 billion for the CIB, in hopes of luring four times that much in private investment for infrastructure projects like toll bridges and highways, ports and power transmission networks.

Three people described as transients were in custody Friday in connection with the fiery collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Atlanta.

We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land,» Trump said, calling for public and private infrastructure investments of at least $ 1.5 trillion over 10 years.

We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land, «Trump said, calling for public and private infrastructure investments of at...

Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.

This year marks the completion of an ambitious five - year, $ 380 million revitalization of St. Louis's famed Eero Saarinen - designed Gateway Arch and surrounding parklands, which now includes a subterranean museum and a land bridge that creates a much - needed link between the grounds and the city itself (which was formerly separated by a highway).

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

This is spending on capital (highways, bridges, sewer systems, subways and LRT systems, hospitals, universities) that will be used over the next 10, 20, 30 years by future generations of Canadians.

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 Bbridge, $ 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 BBridge, and $ 70 million for the new, seventh counter-flow lane on the Alex Fraser BridgeBridge.

Housing affordability topped the list, identified by 40 per cent of respondents, followed closely by the need to invest in public transit as well as broader transportation infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and highways.

Trevena said it fails to address how the B.C. Liberals will correct years of mismanagement in many important parts of our transportation infrastructure, including with BC Ferries, the Port Mann bridge and urgent upgrades to Highway 1.

The MassINC Polling Group, working for the Barr Foundation found that improving Massachusetts highways, roads, and bridges was the top priority for respondents, ahead of improving education or lowering taxes.

Note that travel categories under Chase include many things, but not gas stations: airlines, hotels, motels, timeshares, car rental agencies, cruise lines, travel agencies, discount travel sites, campgrounds and operators of passenger trains, buses, taxis, limousines, ferries, toll bridges and highways, and parking lots and garages.

Christ bridged the great gulf separating the two highways and therefore can snatch you from the highway of destruction over to the highway leading to heaven.

My taxes pay for a lot of things that we take for granted, police officers, teachers, public schools, our highway systems and bridges, roads and light fixtures for our everyday usage and our countries defense by way of paying our men and women who are defending our lives right now both here and abroad.)

The artist or engineer does not simply respond or record, but creates; yet to be successful that creation must respect «the grain in the stone» from which a statue is carved or the malleability of steel from which a bridge is built, the acoustic environment of the concert ball or the natural environment of a highway right - of - way.

I still remembered the names of landmarks, bridges, and highways, and at least the Georgetown area of D.C. hasn't changed much.

Ever since they prohibited parking along highway 6, people just parked further and further up Old Taylor Rd.. This lead to a very dangerous bridge crossing for lots of fans.

DUNDEE TOWNSHIP — Opponents of a $ 55 million highway and bridge plan Wednesday night urged the Dundee Township Park District not to give up land.

«Two weeks ago, in the midst of a series of subway and LIRR breakdowns, the governor spent an entire day celebrating a new highway bridge.

And there's a new appropriation, under the Empire State Development corporation's budget, of $ 20 million for «the acquisition of heavy equipment utilized for snow and ice control on state highways and preventive maintenance on state roads and bridges.»

In a rough outline, the governor touted public - private partnerships (or PPPs, as they're known) as a key mechanism to pay for «the repair and development of highways, bridges and major construction projects.»

But as Jimmy Vielkind at CapCon aptly pointed out at today's news conference unveiling the NY Works Task Force, Smith relied on Robert Moses, the controversial master builder who remade New York through a system of bridges, byways and highways.

The Legislature in July last year backed legislation that would name the new bridge in honor of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's father, while also approving legislation to name a park after former Assemblyman Denny Farrell and stretch of highway after Sen. Bill Larkin.

After releasing the city's $ 77.7 billion preliminary budget in February, the mayor's office has been critical of New York state, saying that it hasn't «adequately funded road and bridge rehabilitation and highway maintenance.»

As a result, New York taxpayers won't get maximum value for their construction dollars, and thousands of non-union workers will be unfairly shut out of the competition for government contracts to build, overhaul and expand bridges, highways and other critical infrastructure.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the Federal Highway Administration to fast track approval of a shared - use plan for the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

In Vermont, over 500 miles of state roads were damaged and 34 state highway bridges had to be rebuilt.

JOHNSBURG — Superintendent of Highways Dan Hitchcock has recommended the Johnsburg Town Board consider an alternative to spending $ 920,000 to construct a span bridge over a culvert on Glen Creek Road.

He also expressed the wish to be involved in shaping a long - term plan for the town's infrastructure, including roads, bridges, culverts and the highway department's future heavy equipment needs, calling it «a good project to get a number of people involved, including Brian» Stiscia.

Along with a dispute with New York State over alleged violations of its casino compact, the Seneca Nation of Indians is now questioning the safety of state bridges and highways on the Nation's territories.

The Public Works Subcommittee has oversight over the County's Department of Public Works and all County road, highway, bridge, and building maintenance and construction infrastructure projects.

Six hundred county and town highway superintendents, public works commissioners and other highway industry professionals are expected to swarm the halls of the Capitol and Legislative Office Building in Albany March 3rd & 4th to urge the Governor and state lawmakers to make the maintenance and repair of local roads and bridges a top priority in the state budget.

New York has more than 17,000 highway bridges, about 44 percent of which are owned and maintained by the state DOT, 50 percent by localities and the rest by state and local authorities (Thruway etc).

Farrell is having a park named after him, part of a broader bill approved this summer that also names the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge after Mario Cuomo and a stretch of highway in the Hudson Valley after Republican Sen. Bill Larkin.

In a statement from Rebuild New York Now President Mike Elmendorf, the group calls for equity in how upstate taxpayers are benefiting from state investment — namely in the form of spending on improving highways and bridges in the state.

He worked for contractors and consultants on motorway construction in the UK, in a motorway bridges design office and for 23 years for the UK Department for Transport and latterly the Highways Agency, where he was responsible in turn for the management of trunk roads, the maintenance of motorways including the first major repair contract on M6 Stafford Bypass, where contra flow was first used on a live motorway in the UK, the project management of major road schemes both in the planning and design and construction stages.

Mr. de Blasio's decision to allow anti-police brutality protesters to repeatedly block bridges and highways only further enraged the city's conservatives, mostly dormant since Mr. de Blasio, a strong critic of stop - and - frisk, swept into power last year.

ALBANY, NY (03/04/2015)(readMedia)-- ALBANY, NY - Six hundred county and town highway superintendents, public works commissioners and other highway industry professionals swarmed the halls of the Capitol and Legislative Office Building in Albany March 3rd & 4th to urge the Governor and state lawmakers to make the maintenance and repair of local roads and bridges a top priority in the state budget.

The measure was necessary because the Highway Trust Fund, which is used to finance bridge and road construction projects, was set to run out of funding on May 31.

According to the USA Today Network, the money for the signs came from emergency transportation funds, usually meant for emergency repairs to highways and bridges, and that contractors who worked on the signs were paid overtime in order to get them in place before the July 4 holiday in the summer of 2016.