Sentences with phrase «rail project as»

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Newer innovations involve train travel, with pilot projects to have rail passengers clear U.S. customs in Montreal and B.C., as the latest in ongoing efforts between the administrations of Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

«Rail and supporting non-pipeline modes should be capable, as was projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude oil production to markets if there were no additional pipeline projects approved.»

EllisDon won the $ 5.3 - billion contract to build Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit line, the largest PPP project in Canadian history, working alongside ACS Infrastructure Canada, Aecon and SNC - Lavalin as part of the Crosslinx Transit Solutions consortium (the project is scheduled to be completed in 2021).

In particular, the Board of Trade would like to see focus expanded to include other projects necessary to the growth of our region, such as the replacement of the George Massey Tunnel, improved port and rail capacity across the region, and a six - lane replacement for the aging Pattullo Bridge in cooperation with TransLink.

China has already spent approximately $ 180 billion to complete various projects, but many billions more will go toward building roads, ports, dams, high - speed rail, airports and more — all to «enhance regional connectivity,» as President Xi Jinping put it, and strengthen China's economic clout.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

Third, why does the Finance Minister want to create an independent CIDB that will focus only on «National Economic Development projects such as toll highways and bridges, high - speed rail, port and airport expansions, smart city infrastructure, national broadband infrastructure, power transmission and natural resource infrastructure?

Company started as a frontier in architecture and design industry empowering projects like NY Affordable Housing Challenge, Rail Baltica Riga Station and Expo Astana.

A memorial service has been held for the 60,000 people buried near London Euston station whose bodies will be exhumed as part of the HS2 high speed rail project.

This is due to Liverpool Lime Street undergoing major engineering work in order to deliver substantial improvements from 2019 as part of the Great North Rail Project.

ABUJA — THE House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Failed Rail Contracts, yesterday, unearthed 169 ghost companies that registered as contractors with the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, for projects valued at N1 trillion.

There'll be more than enough time to talk about politics in the future, but for now obviously the important thing is making sure that we get projects like high speed rail and as much funding for upstate New York.»

Charlotte acknowledged that a railway with Victorian roots «doesn't have change embedded in its DNA» and recognised that this country is not short of ambitious rail projects or great ideas, such as rebuilding King's Cross station or electrifying entire routes.

«We have secured investment to allow us to go ahead with important projects such as high speed rail, support for ultra-low carbon cars and major road - building and public transport programmes.»

The former transport secretary headed the body that makes recommendations to the government on projects such as the high - speed rail link HS2.

According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinrail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt RefinRail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

She also served as Director of the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, including negotiating and executing the multi-billion dollar public - private partnership contract for the Dulles rail projRail and Public Transportation, including negotiating and executing the multi-billion dollar public - private partnership contract for the Dulles rail projrail project.

He also gave initial funding for several large infrastructure projects, such as High Speed 3 (an east — west rail line across the north of England), Crossrail 2 (a north — south rail line across London), a road tunnel across the Pennines, and upgrades to the M62 motorway.

As the project lurched off the rails from a bid price of $ 72 million (including pre-bid «soft costs»), the legislative watchdogs who were supposed to be watching pointed fingers at the project's managers.

Amtrak said in 2014 that repairs would begin in 2019, but that has now been pushed back until after the Long Island Rail Road starts to run trains into Grand Central Terminal as part of the East Side Access project.

The project includes new track bed and station upgrades for Metro Rail, as well as new curbs, sidewalks, and room for on - street parking.

On Wednesday, Sept. 4, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by NYS Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy, NYS Senator Timothy Kennedy (D - 63rd District), NYS Assemblymember Sean Ryan (D - 149th District), Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, National Grid Regional Director Dennis Elsenbeck, and representatives from area railways and industries as he announced the completion of the Rail Relocation Project at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna.

In his goodwill message, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode said that the proposed extension of the Lagos - Ibadan Rail Project would go a long way to open up the economy of the South West region as well as facilitate regional integration and growth.

The projects include a new brewery, renovating the former Ramada Inn, rail links to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, as well as renovating the KeyBank building for both businesses and new apartments.

Construction of an urgently needed rail tunnel under the Hudson River became more likely after NJ Gov. Chris Christie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorsed a plan for the two states and the Port Authority to cover half of the project's expected $ 20 billion cost — as long as the federal government covers the other half.

Aecom chief executive for civil infrastructure Richard Robinson commented: «High profile, transformational projects such as HS2, Hinkley and Heathrow are vital but must not be prioritised to the detriment of the Highways England and Network Rail schemes that keep our country running.»

`' We are going to invite as many private investors as possible to see how they can assist the country achieved its rails projects.

As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plantAs an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plantas housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.

The MTA awarded a $ 1.8 billion contract to expand the Long Island Rail Road, even as its commissioners raised concerns about runaway capital - project costs and an increasingly strained operating budget.

By Sean Ryan Competing predictions of commuter rail in southeast Wisconsin are casting the project as either a development mirage or a dream come true for struggling builders.

By Sean Ryan Local supporters of the Kenosha - Racine - Milwaukee commuter rail project are divided as Milwaukee County officials try to delay project engineering.

With the two Hudson rail tunnels threatening to give up the ghost on a moment's notice, the Gateway project, which would add two more and still barely keep up with growth in ridership, hardly qualifies as a frill.

«The completion of the Rail Relocation Project begins a new chapter in the history of the former Bethlehem Steel site, and will serve as a catalyst for new development and investment here in Lackawanna,» said Poloncarz.

Miliband will say that a Labour government would introduce new technical degrees to meet the demand for hundreds of thousands of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) technicians needed for infrastructure projects such as the new high speed rail line and the Thames Tideway.

«As part of this vision, we are working towards commencing operation of the first phase of the Blue Line Rail Project in the next 12 months so that Lagosians will start to feel the benefits of a world - class rail system», he sRail Project in the next 12 months so that Lagosians will start to feel the benefits of a world - class rail system», he srail system», he said.

Three federal lawmakers are urging Amtrak to better cooperate with the MTA's efforts to link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal as part of its East Side Access project.

The administration now mocks it as a «local project,» though delaying it risks severing the rail link between Boston and Washington, D.C., at the midpoint of Amtrak's busiest and only profitable corridor.

The $ 1.5 billion project, known as the Moynihan Train Hall, will house concourses for both Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, and feature 112,000 square feet of retail space.

Conspiracy theories have no role when such important projects are being discussed but between May 2010 and late summer 2010 the Department for Transport and the company set up to deliver HS2; HS2 Ltd, managed to pull the new Government away from its preferred route as announced in the Conservative Rail Review in 2009.

The Move NY plan listed projects such as opening up four MetroNorth stations in the Bronx, the Triboro rail line that would extend from the Bronx to the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, station rehabilitation and extending the Second Avenue subway.

But rail opponents argue projects such as the Kenosha - Racine - Milwaukee commuter line are not worth...

Islip Councilman Steven Flotteron said: «This is a great project and partnership as well as a wonderful opportunity for commuters that park at the Brentwood Long Island Rail Road Station.»

Prendergast's departure comes as Cuomo intends to sink billions into MTA projects and other infrastructure developments across the state, including into revamping Penn Station and adding another track to the Long Island Rail Road.

California is developing perhaps the most ambitious high - speed rail plans, a project that would include a mixture of shorter lines connecting Los Angeles to Anaheim and San Francisco to San Jose as well as a longer line traversing the nearly 1,300 kilometers between San Francisco and San Diego (with a branch through Sacramento).

«Building a pipeline network in China comparable to the U.S. would be a $ 500 - billion investment,» Sandalow says, although the Chinese have an excellent track record of building large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in five years.

The lure of stimulus money, plus a separate five - year, $ 5 billion investment in high - speed rail beginning as part of the administration's suggested fiscal year 2010 budget, has led to 45 applications from 24 states for a total of $ 50 billion in long - term, high - speed rail corridor projects, and another 214 requests from 24 states for a total of $ 7 billion for the smaller, «shovel - ready» work.

As part of the overall project, the existing Airport Transit System, a 24 - hour rail system that serves terminals and parking structures, will be extended to serve the new facility and a new ATS station connected to the consolidated rental car facilities (CRCF) will be constructed.

The Denver Union Station project in lower downtown Denver, Colorado, includes design, development, and construction of a new light rail station, an underground bus facility, a passenger rail station that will serve both Amtrak and Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) trains, as well as public spaces to integrate the transportation components.

Through TIFIA, DOT provides Federal credit assistance to surface transportation projects such as highway, transit, rail, and intermodal freight projects including seaports.