Sentences with phrase «operating city infrastructure»

By operating city infrastructure systems independently without coordination, many coastal cities across the U.S. have urbanized high hazard areas and built highways that continually stimulate land use activities without any land - use controls in place.

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Allowing ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and infrastructure spending were also pushed by business groups, but workers» compensation legislation was considered especially key for Senate Republicans this year, who agreed to an extension of the millionaires tax rate expiring at the end of the year as well as a college tuition plan backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Can an ever - shrinking population pay the bills for cities built for many more people than live there at present, even as they must pay the bills — financing, operating, maintaining — for all that new sprawled out suburban infrastructure?

Despite the Port Authority operating major elements of New York City's transportation infrastructure, including the three Hudson River crossings into New York City and the City's two major airports, the mayor has no control of the agency.

«City funding of the MTA's operating and capital finance needs has been seriously deficient for many years despite the fact that more than 90 percent of the MTA's daily customers are on MTA New York City Transit subway and bus services, and 80 percent of the MTA's physical infrastructure is in New York City,» Prendergast wrote in the letter.

The PA is an agency that mayors love to hate as it operates major parts of New York City's infrastructure with no mayoral control and a shared gubernatorial control (with the New Jersey governor) that provides only partial power to the New York governor.

There are tentative deals on increasing tuition aid to college students, approving a bond act to protect water infrastructure and allowing ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City.

Senator DeFrancisco said there were tentative deals on increasing tuition aid to college students, approving a bond act to protect water infrastructure and allowing ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City.

the area or activities to which the funds raised from a municipal bond issue will be directed and, in turn, the source of future bond interest payments and principal repayment; for general obligation bonds, funds raised may be for general purposes, both operating and infrastructure, and payments are secured by the general taxing power of the issuer — usually a state, town, or city; revenue bonds are categorized under terms such as «Utilities» or «Transportation»

Pearce hacks into Chicago's Central Operating System (ctOS), which controls the city's infrastructure (security cameras, traffic lights, public transportation and more) as well as key data on the city's residents.

«From New York to Portland and in between, the cities where we operate have invested in building more safe bike infrastructure and we are glad that our bike share systems can help contribute to safety in numbers as well.»

to achieve the dramatic reduction in global fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions of the built environment by changing the way cities, communities, infrastructure, and buildings, are operated, planned, designed, and constructed and;

The rapid urbanization of humanity ushered in inefficient design of buildings and infrastructure, and Project Drawdown identified, measured, mapped and modeled several solutions that address the operating inefficiencies of dwelling in and using buildings, and of living in cities.