Sentences with phrase «paving highways in»

The U.S. may enjoy the world's most extensive highway system at present, but the Chinese are rapidly catching up — from a few paved highways in the 1980s to 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) of paved roads in 2007.

«Traveling paved highways in an air - conditioned van, I tried to imagine what it would have been like for old men, women, and children to make this journey on foot....

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We already paved the way for a mega-development in an urban area with the requisite access to highways, rail, an international airport; proximity to major institutions of higher education; a redundant fiber optic loop in the works for Internet access, and capacity to handle the 8 million square feet of office space the company will eventually need.

As for the $ 7.8 billion highway and high - speed rail line connecting the coastal and mountain clusters, a wag in the Russian press calculated that it would have been cheaper to pave them with a layer of foie gras eight inches thick.

«I think the SWAP plan is a great idea, it does not make sense to spend money on paving a road if the underground infrastructure is in disrepair,» said Halfmoon Highway Superintendent John Pingelski.

Judge Michael Mackey's decision paved the way for Harder and Morin, who are running without the Democratic Committee's blessing, to be on the ballot in November for town council and highway superintendent respectively, although the committee plans to appeal.

The Superintendent of Highways, Wayne Ballard, was requesting the doubling of his 2015 road paving budget in order to accommodate additional roads he wants to complete this year.

Nearly 50 miles off the nearest paved highway, the find was secured in part by its remoteness.

Nor is a raised four - wheel - drive utility vehicle with huge knobby tires ideal for the driver whose daily commute via a nicely paved highway is from a suburban house to a high - rise office in a metropolitan downtown area.

Unfortunately for Car and Driver, the Alaskan Highway used in 1976 has since been updated and paved.

This isolated wedge of backcountry — almost as big as New Jersey, yet traversed by a single paved highway — is known as the Arizona Strip, and it has one of the lowest population densities in the forty - eight conterminous states.

The next time you drive on a smoothly paved highway, borrow a new DVD from your library, see an office park rising up in your neighborhood or hear of a factory expansion that's creating new jobs, consider the role of the U.S. bond market.

In the 1950's it was paved and made into a highway.

Since Hiram Bingham «discovered» Machu Picchu in 1911 — something the Spanish conquistadores failed to do centuries before — intrepid travellers have been tramping this stone - paved Incan highway to get to the hill - perched site.

Within 20 minutes you are turning west onto the paved Hummingbird Highway, which is considered to be the most scenic drive in all of Belize.

In 1991 Belize had about 500 kilometers of paved highway extending from the Mexican and Guatemalan borders to Belize City, including the new Hummingbird Highway linking Belmopan with Dangriga (see fihighway extending from the Mexican and Guatemalan borders to Belize City, including the new Hummingbird Highway linking Belmopan with Dangriga (see fiHighway linking Belmopan with Dangriga (see fig. 14).

Major investment in tourism infrastructure - including the redevelopment of the island's airport, new highways, a new international passenger port, and a wave of new luxury hotel developments - are paving the way for Vietnam's «Emerald Isle» to establish itself as Asia's hottest new destination for connoisseurs of luxury travel.

Overall Road Condition: Fair Paved Section: 0 % Gas Availability: Poor — gas up in Dangriga or on the Western Highway

When the paving of the Southern Highway was completed in 2009 the last piece was in place.

Las Flores is located approximately 150 km SE (2 hours drive) of the international airport and is accessible by modern paved roads which are some of the best in Central America, allowing direct transit here at highway speeds.

The beach is in a protected bay facing south, about 24 km south of Nosara — an hour from Nicoya over a nice paved highway.

The former dirt track that ran 25 miles (41 km) from the Southern Highway to the tiny community of Riversdale and then down the peninsula to Placencia Village has been paved, and the road is now in excellent condition (beware the speed bumps, however).

But he was also involved in the issue of highways; Mendes» pointed questioning about the environmental and social impacts of the IDB - funded [Inter-American Development Bank] paving of the BR - 364 highway to Rio Branco, Acre contributed to his international prestige.

In the end, the coroner's report pretty much calls for what cycling advocates have been calling for: Better infrastructure, complete streets, paved shoulders on highways and sideguards on trucks.

The Brazilian government is paving the highway between Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, and Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil's westernmost city with plans to finish by the end of President Lula's second term in 2010.

The National Interstate Highway System was not constructed by offering low - interest short - term loans to driveway paving companies so they could lay asphalt in thirty - foot long projects.

Known as geoglyphs by researchers, these complex geometric designs are thought to have been crafted by ancient civilizations centuries earlier, though their purpose, to this day, remains a mystery.According to Globo Amazônia, these latest geoglyphs were reported by road technicians who were conducting a geographical survey prior to the paving of highway BR - 429, a road which cuts through the state of Rondonia in the Brazilian Amazon.

Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery — a series of enormous earth carvings, barely perceptible from the ground.

Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery --

The pig farms in the gully have been filled in and replaced by a four - lane highway and multi-unit apartments; the muddy tracks are paved.

And in scores of countries prime cropland is being lost to both industrial and residential construction and to the paving of land for roads, highways, and parking lots for fast - growing automobile fleets.

You exit off the highway, enter downtown, and all of the sudden the streets are paved in brick and the houses are 200 years old.

With beautiful rides on paved highways and luscious views, it's no wonder why motorcycling is a popular past time in this industrious town.

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One of the first five paved highways built in Orange County was the brick Conway Road from Orlando to Conway, running along what is now Briercliff Drive, Curry Ford Road, and Conway Road, ending at Anderson Road, the center of Conway.