Sentences with phrase «road and bridges»

The main federal fund for roads and bridges runs at a deep deficit.

Your questions, such as status of road and bridge repairs; county services; and budget allocations will be met with quick and accurate responses.

He was the one who set up random toll booths on roads and bridges and charged people anything he wanted.

Anyone who has been out driving knows that state, county and local road and bridge projects are underway.

These teams will be conducting road and bridge damages as well as outdoor home assessments.

-- Plus, and update on upstate roads and bridges.

Civil Engineers are in charge of creating and building structures like roads and bridges.

Or the county can return $ 750 dollars to the average homeowner and keep an extra $ 50 million dollars a year to rebuild roads and bridges.

My district alone is a huge task, which is why I discuss road and bridge maintenance as often as I do.

Much of the city's key infrastructure, including roads and bridges, is currently under water, with heavy rain in the forecast for much of the rest of the week.

Today, CEOs need tax breaks, which the system has delivered instead of well - maintained roads and bridges.

The county - financed program, which began in 2015, funds repair or replacement of aging roads and bridges and upgrades like wider shoulders and better pedestrian access.

Every gas tax dollar goes to building and maintaining state, and municipal roads and bridges.

A number of trouble spots on area roads and bridges are scheduled to be fixed this construction season.

Most notably, some are calling for an increase in gasoline taxes to fund additional road and bridge repairs.

Keep roads and bridges safe and up - to - date, without raising taxes.

In 2005, the federal and provincial governments estimated that the country required $ 24 billion in maintenance on existing roads and bridges, plus another $ 37 billion for expansion, by 2013.

Their vision of parity is the state agreeing to spend an equal amount of money on upstate and Long Island roads and bridges.

As rural roads and bridges continue to crumble, local officials seek ways to fund much - needed projects.

It would require the use of American - made steel or iron for road and bridge contracts that cost $ 1 million or more.

After driving country winding roads and bridges stretching between mountain tops, they arrive at the hotel.

Just as public roads and bridges help parents get to work, child care is a vital component of a modern economy for working families.

That discretionary funding program mainly funds road and bridge projects «identified» by the governor and legislature outside of the regular budget.

Plus, and update on upstate roads and bridges.

Wheel - tax revenue can be used for nothing besides transportation projects, such as maintenance of roads and bridges or public - transit operations.

Major issues in the 2015 legislative session included dealing with the $ 300 million budget shortfall, funding for roads and bridges, criminal justice reform, school choice, and healthcare.

The $ 1.2 billion program will repair roads and bridges, but it is also intended to function as a jobs and economic development engine.

Civil Engineers create and build the physically built environments all around us, like roads and bridges.

Governments don't have money to feed you, since they need to build roads and bridges and pay for education.

Drivers want some of it to be used to improve aging roads and bridges.

It's summer and as some drivers have noticed, that is when area roads and bridges and repaired or replaced and traffic is slowed.

In fact, in my home state of KY, it was not until Jan of 2017 that the law was passed or the state legislature passed a law that allowed private sector to invest in roads and bridges in KY..

Saying that the nation's infrastructure has been neglected for too long, while the U.S. has spent billions fixing roads and bridges in overseas locations including Iraq and Afghanistan, Congressman Brian Higgins has introduced a trillion - dollar proposal to fix domestic roads, bridges and waterways over the next five years.

Governor Cuomo today announced that temporary lane closures associated with road and bridge construction projects on New York State highways will not be permitted from 6 a.m. on Friday, December 23, to 6 a.m. on Tuesday, December 27, and again... Continue reading →

More broadly, Cuomo said he also wants to invest $ 22 billion in upstate roads and bridges over five years.

Motorists use local roads and bridges for as much as half of all their travel in New York State.

Residents will see the fruits of our $ 11.5 million investment in infrastructure in improved roads and bridges throughout the county.

PLATTSBURGH Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into a law a bill that would require the purchase of American - made steel and iron products for state road and bridge projects over $ 1 million.

To «toll» in duck hunting parlance is to entice or lure, a rather archaic definition of the word most associate with road and bridge fees and ringing bells.

His plans call for improvements at the MTA, an overhaul of Pennsylvania Station, a new LaGuardia Airport, a third track on the Long Island Rail Road, an expansion of the Jacob Javits Center, major upgrades to John F. Kennedy Airport as well as to air terminals in Long Island and the Hudson Valley — all on top of new roads and bridges across upstate «like we've never built before.»

Australian toll road developer Transurban Group said today that it will buy Quebec's A25 toll road and bridge from infrastructure investment firm Macquarie Infrastructure Partners for C$ 840 million plus transaction costs of C$ 18 million.

The Shimanami Kaido is a spectacular 60 km road and bridge network connecting Japan's mainland to its fourth largest island, Shikoku.

Como has promised to repeal the payroll tax and complains on his website that the legislature has provided «no 5 - year highway, road and bridge plan — a key economic development initiative for Upstate and Long Island — while approving over $ 23.8 B in new funding for the MTA.»

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.

Unfortunately, the recent proposal issued by the Trump administration will NOT result in more road and bridge work in Erie County, instead less will get done.