Sentences with phrase «repair roads and bridges»

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that $ 28 million will be made available to repair roads and bridges in federal parks and recreation areas in New York and New Jersey damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

Louisiana will receive $ 2 million to repair roads and bridges, stabilize structures to prevent further damage, and set up detours until permanent repairs are completed.

We need to not only invest in America, but commit to the future — not only rebuild and repair our roads and bridges, but expand opportunities and economic growth for generations to come.»

We need to not only invest in America, but commit to the future — not only rebuild and repair our roads and bridges, but reimagine how we do it.»

The governor is following through with an announcement to spend billions of dollars to repair roads and bridges, including the reconstruction of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

If we properly invest funds we can maintain and repair our roads and bridges,» said Legislator Lorigo.

Senator DeFrancisco says the legislature in those years approved a bail out for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but did not provide and funds to repair roads and bridges upstate.

New York has a budget surplus, and what better way to use that surplus than to put New Yorkers back to work building and repairing our roads and bridges.

«From repairing roads and bridges, getting power back, helping with insurance claims and working with family farms, state government has rapidly mobilized to make sure that all available resources are in place to help the affected areas recover.

We not only need to do a better job repairing the most immediate concerns, but we also need a formal long - term plan for maintaining and repairing the roads and bridges as economically as possible.

«This nearly $ 7 million in funding for towns and villages in the First Senatorial District will allow us to put New York back to work by repairing roads and bridges,» said state Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson).

He also said she would raise the minimum wage across the nation, reduce students» college debt and take on issues particular to cities — affordable housing, mass transit, repairing roads and bridges, policing reform and immigration reform.

This is really basic materials science that, you know, why do we have to keep repairing roads and bridges?

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 750,000 in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help the Michigan Department of Transportation cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by rainfall in the Detroit metro area.

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Department of Transportation will provide more than $ 319 million to states across the nation to cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by a variety of natural disasters, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.

Obama has pledged three million new jobs with his stimulus plan, which also includes tax cuts, investment in computerizing medical records, modernizing schools and universities, repairing roads and bridges and expanding broadband access to rural towns.

Not exact matches

CNBC reveals how our nation's bridges, roads and pipelines are in desperate need of repair, and searches for solutions.

CNBC reveals how our nation's bridges, roads and pipelines are in desperate need of repair and searches for solutions to the crisis.

Many of the highest return infrastructure investments — such as improving roads, repairing 60,000 structurally deficient bridges, upgrading schools or modernising the air traffic control system — do not generate a commercial return and so are excluded from his plan.

Schools will have to be repaired; bridges and roads will have to be rebuilt; electrical grids must be restored.

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Government of Dominica report needs for 14,000 tarpaulins, 4,813 cases of water per day, road clearance, bridge reconstruction, shelter repair materials, water purification kits, non-food items, generators, dignity and sanitation materials and medical supplies.

While the community is accessible, the roads are in very bad condition and bridges are in need of repair.

Bridge repairs, resurfacing projects and flood resilience initiatives are among major local road schemes to have received investment this week under the Government's Challenge Fund.

«This investment will enable councils to repair roads and key infrastructure like bridges — boosting reliability on our roads so people can stay connected with family, friends and employment, while also keeping businesses connected with customers,» said Transport Minister Jesse Norman.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today says two water main breaks in Rotterdam and a sewer break in Amsterdam underscore the continued urgent need for a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground, and save tax dollars.

The appropriation of $ 12,600,000 of Transfer Tax from the Erie County Road Repair Reserve Fund (budgeted 2018 revenue) for road and bridge repairs in 2018;Road Repair Reserve Fund (budgeted 2018 revenue) for road and bridge repairs in 2018;road and bridge repairs in 2018; and

Kink says he does like the governors» job creation programs - the biggest one would use over one and half billion state dollars to leverage billions more in investments for road and bridge and other infrastructure repairs, including a new Tappan Zee Bridge, better flood control, and renewable energy sybridge and other infrastructure repairs, including a new Tappan Zee Bridge, better flood control, and renewable energy syBridge, better flood control, and renewable energy systems.

Erie County legislators have unanimously approved an expanded budget for repairing the county's tattered roads and bridges, badly dented by a winter which never seemed to end.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke) and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C,I - Corning) are joining with several local Capital Region officials in seeking a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground and save tax dollars.

The Federal Government has begun emergency and remedial repair of some major roads and bridges in Lagos State, the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Godwin Eke, said on Sunday.

Berg Road, which passes through Orchard Park and West Seneca, will be repaved and the bridge repaired beginning this month and ending in November.

Tedisco agrees that roads and bridges need repair as well, and suggests more in the way of property tax relief, echoing a new proposal from Cuomo announced this week.

In the Syracuse Media Group / WCNY debate aired live, neither Rep. Dan Maffei nor Republican challenger John Katko supported raising the gas tax, which the federal government uses to fund bridge and road repair.

One year after Tropical Storm Irene, repair crews remain busy in Greene County New York, where the reconstruction is expected to cost as much as $ 15 million on roads, bridges and culverts.

Provides $ 300 million in new money for repair of roads, bridges and infrastructure under the transportation component of the NY Works program with $ 100 million of it awarded competitively through the Regional Economic Development Councils.

The Erie County Legislature is being asked to approve a request from the Poloncarz administration for additional money for road and bridge repairs.

The allocations prioritize our students at Erie Community College, youth services, road and bridge repairs, the libraries and more,» said Chairman John Mills.

«Our capital plan retires nearly $ 1 million in overall debt while still repairing roads, building bridges and investing in vital government infrastructure,» Picente said.

The delay to repair and reopen Swift Mills Road Bridge has been a headache for residents and motorists.

Six hundred county and town highway superintendents, public works commissioners and other highway industry professionals are expected to swarm the halls of the Capitol and Legislative Office Building in Albany March 3rd & 4th to urge the Governor and state lawmakers to make the maintenance and repair of local roads and bridges a top priority in the state budget.

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US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is warning states of the danger of letting a federal fund for road and bridge repairs run out of money.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is temporarily lifting requirements from the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environemtnal Conservation to allow for emergency bridge and road repairs in the storm's aftermath.

The governor also said he expects the state will be able to pay for the damage «within the budget framework,» adding: «One way or the other, these roads and bridges have to be repaired.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, appearing in Keene, Essex County, yesterday to survey damage to the North Country, announced he would suspend the permitting prcoess required by the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation so that rural areas could make emergency repairs to bridges, roads and other infrastructure damaged by Irene.

As communities up and down the eastern seaboard seek billions of dollars in needed repairs to roads, bridges, homes and farmland, aid from Washington is becoming an increasingly politicized process.

And Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald said the state initiated its emergency contracting procedure to help move along needed repairs to roads and bridges that had been washed away by the stoAnd Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald said the state initiated its emergency contracting procedure to help move along needed repairs to roads and bridges that had been washed away by the stoand bridges that had been washed away by the storm.

He worked for contractors and consultants on motorway construction in the UK, in a motorway bridges design office and for 23 years for the UK Department for Transport and latterly the Highways Agency, where he was responsible in turn for the management of trunk roads, the maintenance of motorways including the first major repair contract on M6 Stafford Bypass, where contra flow was first used on a live motorway in the UK, the project management of major road schemes both in the planning and design and construction stages.

Upstate elected officials, as well as construction - oriented organizations, have in recent months pushed state officials to back a boost in upstate infrastructure spending aimed at repairing and maintaining aging roads, bridges and sewer systems.

Last month, her office released a report detailing the state of bridges and roads around the state, finding that most of New York's infrastructure is in dire need of repair.