Sentences with phrase «rail than road»
For the first few decades of the 20th Century, the two towns remained rural hamlets, linked to Chicago more by rail than road.
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More than 100 people were injured after a Long Island Rail Road train crashed into Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York.
Supporters say it would provide a safer and more cost - effective way to transport Bakken shale to the U.S. Gulf than by road or rail.
For example, Argentinian wines from Mendoza are shipped via Chilean ports, Valparaiso and San Antonio rather than Buenos Aires due to the latter being a 1,100 km distance by either road or rail.
The Long Island Rail Road in January posted its worst on - time performance in more than two decades.
We are today investing more in building new road and new rail, including Crossrail here in this City, than at the height of the spending boom — because that is a use of taxpayers» money that gives a real economic return.
«The future of the Long Island Rail Road is about much more than that old 7:12 I used to take from Huntington to Penn Station,» Hakim said.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams along with more than 20 of Brooklyn's elected officials have penned a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, urging him to rescind his plan to grant Long Island Rail Road riders a 25 percent fare reduction and consider using the recaptured funds toward desperately needed repairs to the subway's ailing signals instead.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA's) East Side Access project, which will bring Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service to Grand Central Terminal for the first time, is expected to cost nearly $ 9 billion when finished in 2019, more than twice the MTA's initial cost estimate and a decade later than expected, according to a report released Wednesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Long Island Rail Road customers will be able to use their smartphones to buy a ticket to and from anywhere in the system by the end of next month — four months earlier than originally planned, officials said.
A Long Island Rail Road train that crashed in Brooklyn on Wednesday was going more than twice the speed limit when it slammed into a train station, injuring more than 100 people, federal investigators said.
Long Island Rail Road trains were late more often in 2015 than in any other year since 2000, LIRR statistics show.
So far this year injures of workers on the Long Island Rail Road have increased more than 30 % while passenger injuries have increased about 20 %.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo assured an audience of upscale machers in Manhattan this afternoon that the Long Island Rail Road derailment at Atlantic Terminal that injured more than 100 commuters was a «minor accident,» shortly before he debuted the latest piece of his sprawling infrastructure vision: remodeling John F. Kennedy Airport.
But Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been rolling out a spate of ambitious proposals in anticipation of his State of the State address tomorrow, said this morning that a train link would be constructed from the No. 7 line and Long Island Rail Road at Willets Point to LaGuardia, lending the airport the type of rail link extended to John F. Kennedy International Airport more than a decade Rail Road at Willets Point to LaGuardia, lending the airport the type of rail link extended to John F. Kennedy International Airport more than a decade rail link extended to John F. Kennedy International Airport more than a decade ago.
With the capital program now delayed longer than past plans, MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast has fretted about the future of big - ticket projects like bringing Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal and replacing the 20 - year - old MetroCard system.
Thirteen years from now, if the Woodward Avenue Action Association gets its way, the 27 - mile road will look much different than it does now, with bicycle lanes, better pedestrian access, and rapid - bus lanes, and perhaps even a light - rail system elbowing for space with personal cars and trucks.
No modifications were necessary to the drivetrain whatsoever and in tests the Discovery Sport generated more pull than our road - rail Defender, which is remarkable.»
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32/25 Highway / City MPG Reviews: * More spacious and comfortable cabin than those of compact SUVs lower roof and cargo area load heights than most SUVs easy to see out of innovative swing - in roof rails / bars above - average off - road ability many advanced safety features that are widely available top s
32/25 Highway / City MPG Awards: * 2017 IIHS Top Safety Pick Reviews: * More spacious and comfortable cabin than those of compact SUVs, lower roof and cargo area load heights than most SUVs, easy to see out of, innovative swing - in roof rails / bars, above - average off - road ability, many advanced safety features that are widely available, top safety ratings.
For starters, he'd like to see various levels of American governments reinstate the more than a million positions shed in recent years but he also wants to see new investments in roads, rail upgrades, water systems and other key parts of the industrial infrastructure.
Today sadly, we heard of the devastating South African Rail disaster which occurred on the Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg route, the exact same train we were on less than 6 months ago during our wonderful South African road trip which was punctuated by this overnight train trip.
The road network is better than the rail network in Sri Lanka.
More than # 100 million will go towards local road schemes to bust congestion pinch - points and speed up journeys, while an extra # 300 million will help push forward plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail to bolster links between Northern towns and cities with more frequent and faster services.
On a global scale, deforestation accounts for as much as 17 percent of global carbon pollution — roughly 50 percent more than the entire world's air, road, rail, and shipping traffic combined.
Yeah, some things are going to be taken off the rails (mile long coal trains, being one of them), but over the road freight needs to go ON the rails and more trucks pass any given busy interstate highway point than rail cars (other than coal trains...) of an equivalent capacity.
In a country where the roads are the major public works projects in most places, upgrading bus lines to BRT technology could prove to be a more efficient transit solution than building light rails and subways, which require new and expensive infrastructures of their own.
One of the arguments used by supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline is that pipelines are safer than transporting the oil via the rail roads, as is currently being done.
Rail transport was 37 more likely to result in injuries requiring hospitalization than pipeline, and road was 143 times more likely.
Their results indicated that the sound from wind turbines was more annoying than similar levels of sound from road, rail and air traffic.
There doesn't appear to be anything about today's technologies that is, on balance, more problematic than previous world - changing technologies, such as the printing press, rail roads, the electric telegraph and vaccinations.
For the purposes of this subdivision, the term «highway vehicle» means a land motor vehicle or trailer other than (i) a farm - type tractor or other vehicle designed for use principally off public roads and while not upon public roads, (ii) a vehicle operated on rails or crawler - treads, or (iii) a vehicle while located for use as a residence or premises.