Sentences with phrase «on road schemes»

Senior associates Jo Miles and Nick McDonald focus on road schemes, energy generation and national infrastructure projects.

George Osborne has promised to spend nearly # 10bn on road schemes across the UK in the next five years, many of which will be committed to the Highways Agency in a plan that under the new Infrastructure Act will be difficult for a future government to unravel.

A DfT spokesman commented: «This Government is taking the big decisions for Britain's future, and we are investing a record # 15Bn on road schemes which will cut congestion, speed up journeys and boost the economy across the country.

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The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The suspected mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was convicted on narcotics and other charges on Wednesday for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

Fuel Tax: Fuel tax is a road pricing scheme in which motorists pay a tax on the fuel they buy at the pump.

In this scheme, education becomes «the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge» (AE 6), and Whitehead is well remembered for having detailed two related pitfalls on the road to acquiring this art.

If Sutton really is planning on changing some schemes to be more attack oriented, we could see a middle of the road defense in 2018.

This is on top of a record # 6Bn for maintaining local roads, # 7Bn for the Local Growth Fund, # 1.25 Bn for local transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their areas.

Amid the plans for 84 new road schemes are plans to spend # 300 million on an «environmental fund to mitigate carbon emission (sic) and reduce the number of people affected by serious noise.»

But all the evidence from previous road - widening schemes shows that congestion quickly returns to levels seen before billions of pounds were spent on them.

And we have been here before, a year ago the Prime Minister boasted about their national infrastructure plan 12 months on not a single road scheme has even started, Mr Speaker.

The amount of extra traffic must be heavily dependent on the context, size and location of road schemes, but an appropriate average value is given by an elasticity of traffic volume with respect to travel time of about − 0.5 in the short term, and up to − 1.0 in the long term.

Labour has no choice - the economic news is so bad that the debt fuel pyramid confidence scheme can't be kept on the road for much longer.

«The schemes I am announcing are focused on relieving congestion and providing important upgrades to ensure our roads are fit for the future.»

The Department for Transport worked with local authorities across England on road pricing pilot schemes, the intention being to use evidence from these as the basis of any national decision.

The secretary of state for transport Douglas Alexander explains where the government stands so far on road pricing, ahead of local government pilot schemes.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats will not support a scheme that blows such a large proportion of the Welsh Government's borrowing powers on one single road.

In its detailed response to the Government's draft Local Transport Bill, the British Motorcyclists Federation have said that the Secretary of State is much better placed to take decisions that have a national relevance such as those on road - pricing schemes.

There has been much recent media speculation on the issue but the messages are confused ranging from «not much change», to various charging schemes, to new private toll roads and altering vehicle excise duty / fuel duty.

Mr Baker argued the government should be focusing on introducing a national road pricing scheme which could replace road taxes.

The committee says there must also be more effort put into taking people off the road - it says a national road pricing scheme should be introduced as soon as possible, while greater emphasis must be placed on improving bus and rail services.

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.

«After the first 237 incarnations on news bulletins, I struggled to see how this theme could be developed further, yet the BBC continued to lead with speculation about bizarre consequences of a Labour - SNP government for the economy, tax, and even road schemes.

«A year ago the prime minister boasted about their national infrastructure plan, 12 months on not a single road scheme has even started.»

That's why we called for a debate on road pricing back in 2005, and why we are working with interested local authorities to bring forward local schemes as targeted solutions to specific congestion problems.

Six years later with the growing number of bikes on our roads, more and more cycle lanes being introduced and the introduction of excellent schemes which I take advantage of such as the cycle hire scheme in London.

Speaking at a C40 Climate Summit on congestion and climate change, attendees report Mr Livingstone said he expected Mr Brown to implement a national road pricing scheme during his leadership.

The scheme was introduced in 2013 when 50 state of the art ambulances were put on the road for medical emergencies, a scheme which has been used to save a lot of lives in situations of emergency in the state.

A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.

Back on Earth, cost benefit analysis is the Treasury's test of whether a road scheme is value for money.

Dr Demmel said rear - end collisions account for around one in five crashes on Queensland roads and contribute to 25 per cent of the total cost of claims to the Queensland compulsory third party (CTP) scheme.

Bellway sold 51 flats from its 510 - home scheme on Ponton Road, known as the Residence (pictured).

In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, based on the record - breaking book series, a family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course — thanks to Greg's newest scheme to (finally!)

The 208 has become quite a familiar shape on UK roads, but it's not an unattractive one and both GTis feature all the appropriate hot hatch addenda — lower bumpers, large wheels (18 inches in this case) and striking colour schemes.

The death rates on our roads are much reduced nowadays, thanks in part to schemes that disincentivise bad driving, as well as ones that promote good driving.

Details on what makes it so special are non-existent, but if we were to guess, we'd speculate minor aesthetic tweaks like new wheels and an exclusive paint scheme, plus maybe some kind of off - road focused feature (like a winch).

As fun to drive on road as it is off with an eye - catching paint scheme and the seven - inch lift kit, this truck makes an instant impression.

Mini chooses an odd color scheme, with lime - green roads on a gray background.

In the grand scheme of things, Toyota could say the RAV4 Hybrid is one of the most inoffensive cars on the road, but it also might fall into the bucket as one of the most uninspiring.

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A similar worthy scheme in operation down on Ochheuteal's busy Serendipity Beach Road is M'lop Tapang or just Tapang, which has an outlet on the main drag as well as a boutique in the Sandan Restaurant by the Golden Lions.

Cross roads Given how similar Most Wanted is across all platforms, it comes as a disappointment to find that the Vita version doesn't support Cross-Play, Sony's ingenious scheme that lets you buy a game on PS3 and gain access to the Vita version free of charge and vice versa.

The nearest docking stations for Transport for London's cycle hire scheme are located next the tennis courts in Regent's Park, towards Baker Street on Marylebone Road, next to Great Portland Street Underground station or on Albany street.

Perhaps best known for the Alexandra Road estate on Rowley Way, in the London Borough of Camden, Brown was a pioneer of high - density, low - rise schemes in the 1970s.

Outline planning permission was granted in August 2012 for the scheme, subject to various legal conditions and reserved matters applications, on the 150 - hectare site of university farmland situated in between Huntingdon and Madingley roads and the M11.

If you need to drive, why not sign up to an electric vehicle sharing scheme like Autolib, Cummunauto, as a way of helping limit the number of gas - guzzling cars on the roads?

Since its larger roll - out, the scheme has been growing in popularity; at rush hour, many of the rental stations I've seen are empty, their bikes out on the roads.

Further research is also needed on the impact of traffic calming in other settings in which the background decline in injury rates might be less dramatic, particularly in low and middle income settings, where 85 % of road traffic related injuries occur3 and where there has been little evaluation of the impact of traffic calming schemes.16

I mean, assuming there will be no global geo - engineering scheme that removes CO2 from the atmosphere on a massive scale, if I were to take the IPCC's middle - of - the - road ECS estimate of 3º Celsius per doubling of atmospheric CO2eq and combine it with a rather weak climate mitigation emissions scenario (e.g., RCP 6.5, which peaks around 850 CO2eq ppm)... we are talking about 120º Fahrenheit days being a common occurrence in the summers of Houston far into the future, right?