Sentences with phrase «of the long road bridges»

So unless you somehow accidentally walk across one of the long road bridges connecting the city to the mainland, you can't really end up too far away from wherever you need to get back to.

Not exact matches

Another $ 750 million will be earmarked for other Department of Transportation - managed roads and bridges, but what exactly that entails also will remain a mystery for a bit longer.

So, if high winds cause bridge closures, hundreds will be re-routed on a long drive to get to the official proceedings — that is, of course, if flooding doesn't close the local roads.

Transformative investments in airports, train halls, subways, roads and bridges from the tip of Long Island to the shores of Lake Erie and everywhere in between make New York the place to move goods and people.»

«What tolls are you charging on bridges and what's the cost of the Long Island Rail Road and what alternatives do you have on park and ride and express buses?

In the meantime, Cuomo said instead of negotiating with the Legislature at the Capitol, he plans to focus instead on building infrastructure, including airports, roads and bridges, and the long - awaited upgrade of New York City's Penn Station.

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.

His plans call for improvements at the MTA, an overhaul of Pennsylvania Station, a new LaGuardia Airport, a third track on the Long Island Rail Road, an expansion of the Jacob Javits Center, major upgrades to John F. Kennedy Airport as well as to air terminals in Long Island and the Hudson Valley — all on top of new roads and bridges across upstate «like we've never built before.»

They range from legislation to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for workers not already covered under the governor's series of executive actions, to massive infrastructure projects, including the renovation of Penn Station, $ 22 billion worth of road and bridge upgrades upstate, and expansion of the Long Island Railroad.

Cabinet meetings are now about how trillions of Naira are to be used to provide long delayed infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railway, power, drugs and equipment for hospitals.

Their vision of parity is the state agreeing to spend an equal amount of money on upstate and Long Island roads and bridges.

The concept of a Long Island Sound Shore bridge or tunnel has been proposed by famous New Yorkers, including Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and New York parks and roads creator Robert Moses.

Sen. Carl Marcellino (R - Syosset) said constructing a bridge from Oyster Bay to the mainland would destroy thousands of homes and businesses, spill more traffic onto Long Island roads, and endanger Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, whose waters sparkled in the background as Marcellino spoke.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan, who hails from Long Island, wrote in the Times Union in October that «it's only fair to turn our attention to roads and bridges upstate, many of which are severely deteriorating.»

«They did not pass a long term Highway Trust Fund that invests in our roads and bridges which creates safer driving conditions for the American people everyday and to help our hardworking families reduce the costs of car repairs and maintenance costs,» Dwire said.

In the meantime, Cuomo says instead of negotiating with the legislature at the Capitol, he plans to focus instead on building infrastructure, including airports roads and bridges, and the long awaited upgrade of New York City's Penn station.

Many people understand the damage that can be caused to structures, roads, bridges and utilities by ground shaking in these long - lasting types of earthquakes, such as the one that's anticipated on the Cascadia Subduction Zone between northern California and British Columbia.

The longest strip of road to be lifted into place on the New NY Bridge will be 365 meters.

Cable - stay is inadvisable for bridges with a main span longer than 915 meters because the towers would have to soar twice as high as the towers of a suspension bridge of the same length to string enough cables to hold the road deck in place.

Today the cable - stay method is often an engineer's first choice when designing a bridge to carry traffic, provided that the longest section of road deck to be installed ranges between 150 and 915 meters.

In The Missing Link, Delwyn Mallett gets behind the wheel of the prewar car which bridges the gap between the humble Volkswagen Beetle and a long line of sporting Porsches / Auto - biography: George Cohen — Matthew Bell visits the retired psychiatrist who now devotes his time to driving old cars and building and riding motorcycles, especially single - cylinder Nortons / Douglas Blain takes to the road in a 1946 Talbot - Lago T26 Record, in its day probably the world's fastest saloon and asks, is it The last great Vintage car?

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As we travel down this impossible road, passing through incredibly long tunnels, making use of concrete bridges that hug the walls in the most precarious way, we realise how one - dimensional our perception has become.

The island is narrow and long, with just one road going north of town past the toll bridge.

As the island is long and skinny, there are few roads, with just one road going north of the toll bridge at the edge of San Pedro.

Sand dunes and hills • Shoot interesting rock sculptures • Trees in a field • Snow - capped mountains • Creeks or brooks • Covered bridges • Freeway rush - hour traffic • Fields of flowers • A unique - looking plant, such as a desert cactus • Look for long, winding roads.

This tour will incorporate a quite long drive through winding road and over three hours trek through hundreds of steps on narrow path, various tropical plantations, jungle and bridge.

Granted some of the stimulus money is going to fix bridges before they collapse like the one in Minneapolis, which is probably a good idea, but there are plenty of road projects being put forward that no longer make sense.