Sentences with phrase «road infrastructure»

According to the paper, the registration fees already adopted by at least eight states reflect concerns about how the growing number of electric vehicles may affect road infrastructure funding.

One might be inclined to think of it as prison guards overseeing a work party of inmates on a big road infrastructure project.

A recent boom in automobile sales has plagued the city with horrendous traffic due to poor road infrastructure.

Even a city with good road infrastructure faces significant logistical challenges during a flood.

We have invested massively on infrastructure especially road infrastructure to open up new areas, increase the value of land and give our people access to their property.

The project has been designed but construction is on hold pending road infrastructure investigations.

In an election year, road infrastructure tends to suffer since attention is usually given to political campaigns.

He said the party had honoured most of its 2012 campaign promises, by building many educational, health and road infrastructure across the country.

In rural parts of the world, building a reliable road infrastructure seems night impossible.

However, a lot of the deaths can be attributed to lower driving standards and dangerous road infrastructure, but experts say unsafe vehicles account for the vast majority.

The panel also proposed tolling on federal roads and 0.5 per cent of transport fares paid by passengers using mass transit for inter-state trips to generate fund for the rehabilitation and maintenance of road infrastructure in the country.

In the paper, «Plug - in vehicles and the future of road infrastructure funding in the United States,» Jerome Dumortier and Seth Payton, assistant professors in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Matthew Kent, a former graduate student, assess the magnitude of the decline in federal tax revenue caused by plug - in vehicles and quantify the revenue that could be generated from a federal plug - in vehicle registration fee.

Despite nearly 30 years of work, yields have not risen as much as he and others hoped — largely because many countries lack the capacity for massive irrigation or road infrastructure needed to truck in fertilizer.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

The Legislature formed the Erie County Bridge and Road Infrastructure Maintenance Advisory Board in May to take a community - wide approach to address the significant concerns with the county's roads and bridges.

«The unprecedented road infrastructure is a mirage.

The construction of the already visible works on road infrastructure and power lines show signs that the foundations are being laid, while the building of the proposed industrial infrastructure is most likely to start in 2017.

He called on the Federal Government to collaborate with the major mining company in the community to develop road infrastructure in the area and get their Social responsibility Agreement signed in 2012 according to the provisions of the 2007 Mining Act to be respected.

Project Oaken, a blockchain and IoT design firm put a Tesla on the Ethereum blockchain as a piece of a smart city toll road infrastructure solution to win the hackathon.

However, a Reuters analysis of nationwide bridge data reveals the fretting over the safety of bridges and other road infrastructure is overblown and could distract from more serious problems elsewhere:

«We clearly need more road infrastructure,» says Paul Landry, president and CEO of the B.C. Trucking Association.

It includes road infrastructure work, redeveloping Cherry Street and Old Eastern Avenue.

As well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.

It is, however, to be hoped that some of the money going into Landcorp for this development will make its way into the surrounding road infrastructure, in particular (as a priority) a realignment and widening of the Nash St bridge, a roundabout where Nash St and Selby St intersect, and another on the Lemnos St / Brockway Road intersection: otherwise those 2000 residents will face morning gridlock trying to get out of their new homes.

Watpac Civil & Mining has been awarded $ 89.3 million in contracts in the gold mining and road infrastructure sectors, with the largest being with Chinese - owned company Hanking Gold Mining.

The Reuters analysis squares with independent assessments that U.S. road infrastructure is still among the world's best.

While we found negligible in - transit physical damage to the product in the case study, this does not imply that existing road infrastructure is not an issue in Fiji, or that post-harvest quality is not adversely influenced by in - transit conditions.

The project will not only require an extension of the metro, but also a pedestrian bridge across the Tiber to a new train station, and more connective road infrastructure at the isolated site, which is nestled against a flood - prone elbow bend in the Tiber on the outskirts of Rome.

Elliot Shaw, Executive Director of Strategy and Planning at Highways England focused on «The Road to Growth» — drawing upon extensive research, consumer and stakeholder feedback to provide the vision for a high performing road infrastructure that positively impacts the economy, employment and housing market.

He made references to some projects that government has borrowed monies from the international market to initiate for infrastructure transformation, the $ 100 million works on upgrade of the Tamale airport to an international airport; $ 38 million Tamale teaching hospital phase one; $ 172 million Kejetia Market; $ 1billion Atuabu gas project, roads infrastructure among other tall lists of projects in the country that he said are visible for Ghanaian to see.

«Provided it is well targeted, a national road pricing scheme of this type could reduce congestion by some 50 per cent below what it otherwise would be in 2025 and reduce the economic case for additional strategic road infrastructure by some 80 per cent,» it says.

Also, the Spokesman quoted the task force as listing those factors as the poor state of rural road infrastructure and multiple revenue collecting points on the highways.

According to government spokespersons, their achievements regarding road infrastructure are unparalleled.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has announced plans for massive road infrastructure development in the country to boost economic activities...

Russia's harsh winter environment and underdeveloped road infrastructure, not to mention its sheer immensity, are factors that have had a big influence over the years on the vehicles produced in the country.

And it's getting worse as policies that expand road infrastructure provide access for loggers, farmers and homesteaders to the previously inaccessible forest interior.

In addition, accidents frequently occur in areas where road infrastructure has not kept up with population growth such as along State Road 210 between I - 95 and the beaches.

Moore Blatch head of RTA team, Lee Harris says: «From the accidents that we are seeing cyclist visibility continues to play an important element in the cause of accidents — so improving road infrastructure, so that there are better cycle lanes and more priority given to cyclists is definitely a step in the right direction.»

BEIJING, April 24 - China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers» meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice - breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.

T.E.: Pharmaceutical companies have some difficulties getting products from Point A to Point B in areas with poor road infrastructure, such as natural disaster zones, remote locations, etc..

He lamented the terrible nature of roads in the area and wondered where the unprecedented road infrastructure that the Mahama touted as their achievements had gone.

Better road infrastructure, education and new technological innovations are crucial for safer cycling in cities.

The recently released Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard identified inadequate public transit and road infrastructure as a major obstacle to our regional prosperity, and Metro Vancouver's resistance to this project only exacerbates the issues we are facing.

The 2017 update hasn't changed basic Pathfinder formula: This is still a big three - row SUV whose handling is optimized to tune out the outside world and the discomforts of busted road infrastructure.

No costly toll road infrastructure.

# 255 million is also earmarked for road infrastructure, including speed bumps, speed limits and roundabouts.