Sentences with phrase «on infrastructure repair»

Facing a subway derailment on Tuesday, as well as soaring delays and forthcoming Penn Station service interruptions during the «Summer of Hell,» Cuomo announced the news along with a package of strategies, increased funding for capital spending on infrastructure repairs and delivery of new equipment.

Not exact matches

It recouped $ 2.1 million in insurance money but has spent $ 2.3 million on repairs and upgrades to existing infrastructure, to make sure another storm of equivalent power won't wreak similar havoc on the enterprise.

Huawei is building smart cities, and cleaner cities, that have helped many countries save on electricity, cut down costs, cut down on repairs, make the infrastructure more secure and emit cleaner emissions.

Arty Straehla, the CEO of Mammoth (the parent company of Cobra), said in a conference call on Friday that Cobra does infrastructure repairs for utility companies across the Midwest.

In a report on artificial intelligence and the economy, the Obama White House suggested that automation might create jobs in supervising AI, repairing and maintaining new systems, and in reshaping infrastructure for developments like self - driving cars.

In regard to infrastructure, the Party has provided $ 11.3 billion over ten years to municipalities so they can plan in advance to manage growth; delivered a twenty - year strategic plan to catch up on high priority infrastructure projects; and committed an average of $ 6 billion annually to build, maintain, and repair schools, hospitals, highways, urban transit, universities, colleges, parks, and senior care facilities.

There is less hardware that needs repair, and the responsibility for the grid often falls to the people that are on it, creating strong incentive to maintain infrastructure and get it back up quickly compared to a large, central utility which has to weigh the needs of all of its customers.

Non-financial assets are defined as expenditures on any construction - related work, from road repairs and maintenance jobs, to local parks and buildings, to social infrastructure spending such as schools, kindergartens or hospitals.

«This investment will enable councils to repair roads and key infrastructure like bridges — boosting reliability on our roads so people can stay connected with family, friends and employment, while also keeping businesses connected with customers,» said Transport Minister Jesse Norman.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Congress to «come together and compromise» on a $ 1 trillion infrastructure spending package that would include funding to repair the region's aging rail system.

The Move NY plan, proposed by former city traffic commissioner (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz, would place tolls on the East River bridges and 60th Street in Manhattan in order to raise money for mass transit repairs and infrastructure.

It's fair to ask the New Yorkers who benefit the most from our city's prosperity to pay a little more to repair the infrastructure that the entire economy relies on.

Madigan said the city relies on the funding to offset rising property taxes and to pay for infrastructure repairs.

Fewer than 10 percent of the projects on the initial SMFP list appear to involve core infrastructure improvements such as road, bridge, sewer or water system repairs.

«She seems to have a lucid understanding of the issues that New Yorkers face and a grasp on the fact that it's the infrastructure that needs repair,» Kaufman continued.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

At 1 p.m., Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara will tour a construction site for an update on emergency infrastructure repairs now underway in the City of Amsterdam, Pershing Road.

Unfortunately, the sewer infrastructure of many of our municipalities is in dire need of repair and places a burdensome financial strain on our communities.

The panel released its report late last year, and recommended a phased approach to congestion pricing, which would first include repairing public transit infrastructure and then levying a $ 11.52 fee on personal vehicles and $ 25.34 on trucks traveling south of 60th Street and north of Battery Park during peak hours (between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.)

«Our infrastructure is aging, and in desperate need of repairs and improvements,» said de Blasio at the Budget Hearing on Local Governments on February 25.

Jain says the commission thinks that perhaps the awards, which after this year will approach a total of nearly $ 5 billion dollars, could be better spent on much needed infrastructure repairs, with more tangible results.

Jain says the commission thinks that perhaps the awards, which after this year will approach a total of nearly $ 5 billion, could be better spent on much needed infrastructure repairs, with more tangible results.

He'd like to refocus Town Board discussions on needed infrastructure repairs and «common sense» governance.

-- Crews are currently focusing on repairing critical infrastructure, like transmission lines, substations and roads.

The highlight of the launch was the presentation of a cheque for the sum of One Hundred and Seventy Six Million, Three Hundred and Fifty thousand Naira (N176, 350,000) to Hon. Aminu Sani Gumel, the Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Jigawa State on behalf of the 27 Chairmen in the state for the operation of the social security scheme where a grant of between N50, 000 and N100, 000 would be given to each polling unit across the state for minor infrastructure repair and social assistance.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and a coalition of construction advocacy organizations on Thursday called for the state to boost spending for infrastructure projects, especially in upstate cities that have struggled to keep up with needed repairs.

«I'm very concerned about the nonprofits being able to take on this new business,» she said, noting that without money to help pay for infrastructure and repairs at nonprofit shelters, among other expenses, «I think it will be challenging for [the administration] to find providers that are able to do this work.»

Riverkeeper Water Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.»

I hope we would also agree that a greater emphasis must be placed on repairing our crumbling infrastructure, particularly the county road system.

As commuters face what even Gov. Cuomo is calling a «summer of hell» because of track repairs at Penn Station, GOP mayoral candidate Paul Massey is unveiling a transit infrastructure plan on Monday to provide immediate and long - term commuter relief.

The committee oversees construction issues of major facilities across Erie County; as well as issues concerning the Erie County Industrial Development Agency and Industrial Land Development Corporation; acts upon the repair and maintenance of county roads and bridges, general county infrastructure repair on buildings and other physical plant facilities; and discusses ideas concerning economic development, job creation and workforce development.

Instead of waiting years to complete planned work and repairs, the city has decided to spend an additional $ 1 billion on infrastructure projects over the next two years.

When asked about Stringer's claim that heating problems in its buildings are five times the city average in private sector buildings, a NYCHA spokeswoman told CBS2 the authority blames the problems on aging infrastructure and the need for $ 2 billion worth of repairs.

Miner has put forth a proposal to the state government in Albany to spend money on infrastructure in Syracuse, including repairing water mains, increasing broadband internet access, and creating a naturally chilled water system to cool buildings in the summer.

Sampson will be a guest on the show tonight to talk more about the need for infrastructure repair.

Assemblyman William Magnarelli, a Democrat, and Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon, a Republican, issued statements critical of Miner's emphasis on repairing infrastructure and defending Cuomo's proposals for Upstate economic development.

At a conference on oil field infrastructure in October, one executive noted that McKenzie County, which sits in the heart of the oil patch and had a population of 6,360 people in 2010, required nearly $ 200 million in road repairs.

So I'm interested in the processes that occur when infrastructure projects are undertaken... what I'm very interested in is the relationship between practitioners who understand engineering and have trained on - site to, say, repair bridges or repair aqueducts and learned people, people with university training....

Mr. Inhofe, the new chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said on Wednesday that his first priority would be to pass a long - term, robust highway bill, aimed at repairing the nation's crumbling infrastructure.

A recent U.S. Department of Education study on school spending reported that in central cities - where greater numbers of students live in poverty and it costs more to educate them than non-poor students - schools must spend a greater portion of limited funds on instruction and less on repairing buildings or buying / repairing equipment, which has led to often - dangerous infrastructure conditions.

The report features an in - depth, state - by - state analysis of investment in school infrastructure and focuses on 20 years of school facility investment nationwide, as well as funding needed moving forward to make up for annual investment shortfalls for essential repairs and upgrades.

Just think of all the progress we could have made on real items that could help economic growth such as better teacher pay, better roads, better bridges, and repairing infrastructure if we did not have the burden of Medicaid.

The reality - probably 20 years hence, given there is no refuelling infrastructure for hydrogen, nor any nationwide network for maintaining and repairing fuel cells, and so on - is still a huge unknown and a massive gamble.

«All across America, the infrastructure we depend on, like this bridge, is in need of modernization and repairs.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today called on Congress to pass the transportation portion of the American Jobs Act during a visit to the Bridgeport - Norristown Viaduct outside Philadelphia, a century - old passenger rail bridge that is among the hundreds of pieces of transportation infrastructure across Pennsylvania in serious need of upgrades and repairs.

Their unique program infrastructure was setup on individual programs to make it «free» for clients to get the credit repair, so it's an added benefit that is free of cost.

But at the same time try to expand public works projects, repair infrastructure and put 110 % focus on our nation's schools.

A restoration economy is primarily based on renewing the places we've already developed (buildings, infrastructure, brownfields, etc.) and on repairing damage done to natural resources along the way.

The LADWP approved a two year rate increase on the power side to pay for this investment, as well as to repair its crumbling infrastructure, cover rising fossil fuel costs, and more.

Ahead of Davos, Forest Trends President Michael Jenkins pointed out that the current spending on traditional infrastructure, at about $ 500 billion a year, falls far short of the estimated $ 10 trillion required to repair and expand the world's existing water infrastructure by 2030.