Sentences with phrase «of highway signs»

Accomplished in graphic art and sculpture as well as painting, Robert Indiana is best known for his pop word art with its vocabulary of highway signs and advertisement - style images, reflecting life in 1960s America.

Robert Indiana used the vocabulary of highway signs and roadside entertainments of post war America.

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This was a neon sign bolted to the upper reaches of the Aquarium, above the cube of glass, almost like the No Vacancy sign on a highway motel.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

When Sanders painted a large sign pointing potential customers from the highway toward his gas station in Corbin, Ky. (it would eventually expand into Sander's first cafe), he enraged the owner of a competing gas station, Matt Stewart.

«humiliating punishment», like standing on the shoulder of a highway, holding a sign saying «I Disbelieved»?

One was a sign noting who had paid to have that stretch of highway litter - free.

The family of the woman — who was connected to a breathing machine on a stretcher — had placed signs near the highway, reading, «Please Pope stop here to see an angel who has been waiting for you.

And he vetoed — to no avail, as it turned out — a proposal by the Drew town council to erect highway signs identifying the community as the «Home of Archie Manning of the Ole Miss Rebels.»

One tornado had hewed tightly to Highway 21, and as Jackson negotiated the last stretch of road from Sylacauga, the landscape looked more and more ravaged: cracked - back trees, clotheslined street signs, a family of four, bewildered, stooping to pick through the wreckage of their home.

In snowstorms, at night, on two - lane highways marked with deer crossing signs and shrouded in fog, these were both rides and rites of passage.

As a result there are now digital signs displayed in several places above major expressways that keep a running count of the number of highway deaths.

Removal of the more than 500 «I Love NY» signs will begin in April, a federal official said, ending a controversy between the state and the Federal Highway Administration that dates back to 2013.

Also at 10 a.m., Deputy Senate Majority Leader and gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco will comment on the «misuse» of at least $ 8 million in State DOT and Thruway Authority capital fund resources to install 514 illegal «I Love NY» tourism signs along highways across New York, «I Love NY» tourism signs near the Albany Airport Entrance, Rt 155 (Albany Shaker Road), Colonie.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has fiercely criticized Trump, has remained silent on the question of honoring the president with signs for the park on highways north of New York City.

Variable Message Signs, Highway Advisory Radio, and social media are utilized to alert motorists of winter weather conditions on the Thruway.

As it turns out, the sign is a scaled - down replica of the signs that greet motorists at most of the state's highway border crossings — and was not stolen.

Work with Highways England to improve the quality / timeliness of information on signs across the West Mids road network.

The federal government has said the signs are out of compliance with nationwide highway sign rules.

ILLEGAL SIGNS DEFY LOGIC, DEFY LAWS, DEFY TAXPAYERS By Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C,I,Ref - Canandaigua) The governor's illegal, unnecessary, and now - infamous highway road signs are no longer merely a point of controvSIGNS DEFY LOGIC, DEFY LAWS, DEFY TAXPAYERS By Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C,I,Ref - Canandaigua) The governor's illegal, unnecessary, and now - infamous highway road signs are no longer merely a point of controvsigns are no longer merely a point of controversy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Williamsville on Thursday defended the disputed state signs erected along highways and the Thruway system as a way of advertising tourism in New York.

Some $ 12.1 million in road resurfacing projects that will cover about 115 miles of state highway are the first of the» NY Works» transportation improvement projects that were funded under Cuomo's signed 2012 - 2013 budget.

Further ambitions revealed by Highways England include the removal of gantries and variable message signs in the medium term, as highway corridors are designed to accommodate connected and autonomous vehicles.

Cuomo once again defended the I Love NY tourism signs seen on the highways of New York, which have come under fire from the federal government, as drivers of tourism.

The new company was launched on Tuesday at Nottinghamshire County Council's highways depot in Bilsthorpe, where representatives from both authorities symbolically signed the side of a highways vehicle emblazoned with the Via logo.

The workers soon returned to a state Department of Transportation facility on Peconic Rd. near the Sunrise Highway, where they off - loaded a number of the signs.

The Federal Highway Administration ordered New York State not to put up the signs because they distract drivers but Cuomo's Department of Transportation did anyway.

This FHA money will help to restore traffic services and make emergency roadway repairs including removal of debris, repairing sign and signal damages and road washouts on federal - aid highways.»

Fast action to put up signs on Getty Rd.. When residents on Getty St. in Stony Point complained to Town Hall about a lack of «Child at Play» signs it didn't take long for Stony Point Highway Superintendent Larry Brissing to take action.

According to the report given at this week's town board meeting, the popular highway chief had his men install signs on the road within an hour or two of receiving the call.

When residents on Getty St. in Stony Point complained to Town Hall about a lack of «Child at Play» signs it didn't take long for Stony Point Highway Superintendent Larry Brissing to take action.

New York State could lose up to $ 170 million in federal highway funding (out of $ 1.7 billion last year) if the state doesn't remove new «I Love NY» highway signs.

This morning in the Shinnecock Hills, we just happened to glimpse a highway maintenance crew removing «Christopher Cox for Congress» signs from the side of County Road 80, the Old Montauk Hhighway maintenance crew removing «Christopher Cox for Congress» signs from the side of County Road 80, the Old Montauk HighwayHighway.

TRENTON — The governor has signed into law a bill sponsored by Senate President Steve Sweeney that honors a former Naval officer killed by a drunk driver by naming a section of a state highway in his name.READ MORE»

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.

The hundreds of tourism signs the Cuomo administration installed along New York's highways could wind up costing the state $ 14 million in federal funding.

County Executive Ed Day joined with Legislative Chairman Toney Earl and other members of the Legislature recently to sign a recently passed bond resolution for $ 29.5 million for the construction of new Highway Department facilities and three other bond resolutions to continue the methodical rebuilding of county government.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo will remove and replace hundreds of «I love NY» tourism signs along New York's highways after officials in Washington said the state would lose $ 14 million in federal funding if they weren't removed.

DOT officials announced on Feb. 2 that all of the remaining signs would be taken down to make way for a new tourism campaign and signage — a day after Highway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvHighway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvhighway improvements.

The state faced a loss of $ 14 million in federal highway funding if the signs remained in place as they were.

As New York appeared to be on the verge of losing $ 14 million in highway funds over signage that violates federal rules, the state Department of Transportation on Friday afternoon announced signs advertising tourism destinations and promotions would be removed and updated to comply with the regulations.

He also put up hundreds of I Love NY tourism signs on interstate highways, despite being told by the federal Transportation Department it was illegal to do so.

Improvement work begins Tuesday on Highway 51 in Oneida County The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced that Gov. Jim Doyle signed a $ 469,000 contract to improve 1.7 miles of Highway 51 in Oneida County.

The state DOT was also criticized for «discarding without notice 50 years of limited highway sign clutter on the Adirondack Northway by erecting business signs including signs advertising Geico Insurance,» according to the report.

Ameri, head of the NYPD Highway District, didn't sign an agreement with the feds and was under no obligation to testify, a law enforcement source told The Post.

«It's like saying we all receive the public benefit of a new stop sign or a new highway,» he said.

A question often addressed to this Ombudsman by these citizens and others in recent days was «What will be the exact number of signs to be replaced on the New York State Thruway, the Palisades Parkway as all as other adjoining roads and highways, and more importantly, what will be the TOTAL COST to the New York taxpayers!»

The Portuguese team uncovered the presence of signs that label these highways and indicate the direction in which a motor protein should proceed.

In 1999, I signed two landmark clean air bills that will reduce industrial air emissions an estimated 250,000 tons annually — the equivalent of removing 5.5 million cars from Texas roads and highways.

So if you are getting exposed to lots of gasoline or gasoline exhaust fumes for example, maybe your work is — maybe you're the person that holds the construction sign on the highway, you know, and you're breathing in fumes all day long, or you're a dental hygienist in Europe being put in the face of chemicals all day long, like we get to see those things but more importantly we are seeing pesticides that are used either in the yard or in the garden.