Sentences with phrase «rail project just»
Gov. Jerry Brown asked the California Supreme Court to block delays to the state's high - speed rail project just three days after accepting the maximum campaign contribution from the state's high - speed rail contractor.
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The government of the Republic of Cameroon is planning to seek funding from China for the rail and port infrastructure at Sundance Resources» Mbalam - Nabeba iron ore project, allowing the Perth company to focus just on the mine development.
While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high - speed rail built just in the last decade.
To wit: I just received a press release from the governor - elect, announcing he has sent a personal letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood asking that if governors - Elect in Ohio and Wisconsin fulfill their respective campaign promises to cancel federally funded high - speed rail projects that New York be the beneficiary of the combined $ 1.26 billion worth of savings.
Her resignation came just days after US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined acting Transportation Commissioner Stanley Gee in Rochester to boast that high - speed rail projects would save upstate's moribund economy.
By James Briggs Just three months after insisting there was no stopping a proposed high - speed rail line from being built between Madison and Milwaukee, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Thursday issued the project's death sentence.
Instead of handing over 50 billion dollars to an industry that can not be sustained at its peak level, public funds can be better used to fund rails, buses, and bicycle pedestrian projects that have already been engineered, already been proven, and are just waiting for funding.
The attitude about cycling here is just one of many things to cheer: a planned light - rail bridge that will also bring $ 40 million in new buffered bike lanes and paths; a proposed apartment project with 1,200 parking spaces for bikes; and a university that supports urban cycling research, Portland State, which last year released a scientific study proving that, yes, bike commuters really do arrive happier.
As John Doyle points out in the Globe and Mail, The War on the Car that Rob Ford just won, where he plans to cancel light rail projects and bike lanes across town, is not a war on elites and artsy people; it is a war on «lunch - pail, blue - collar people,» the students, the elderly, the poor working people who overwhelmingly take transit.
So far we made the basement a usable space (it had mould issues, a very poorly done reno, and was just gross), rebuilt our fence from scratch, and I painted the iron railings on our porch from a rusty pink to a glossy black (what a cheap project with such a huge impact!).