Sentences with phrase «road pricing as»

The shadow transport secretary Chris Grayling said he had heard «ever - increasing rumours» from the Treasury that Mr Brown sees road pricing as an important source of revenue.

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Pump prices normally rise as demand increases from families going on vacation and taking to the highways on road trips.

And with greater scale as production ramps up in Brooklyn, perhaps more can be done down the road to make pricing more reasonable.

Putting a price on roads is often described — to mix transportation metaphors — as the «third rail» of Canadian politics.

As founder of the Reason Foundation, a U.S. free market think - tank, Poole has been pushing the concept of road pricing since 1988.

So the aim was not only to provide basic infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).

Its association with crime — namely money laundering and narcotics through the online black market Silk Road — as well as an alarming amount of price volatility has left regulators and financial - market participants wary of its potential implications, and therefore reluctant to embrace it wholesale thus far.

The Progressive Era developed the view that public utilities and other natural monopolies rightly belonged in the public sector, where governments would provide their basic services at a subsidized price or even freely as in the case of roads.

Crude oil prices are clearly trading above their 20 and 100 - day moving average as this has now become one of the strongest trends in 2018 as I think this will start to support the precious metals and the agricultural market down the road.

While the founder of the Silk Road sits on trial and many wonder if there is a legal application for bitcoin as a currency, the price per unit has been falling sharply for three months and miners can't afford to stay in business.

Oak Road — $ 480,000 Oak Road is a relatively small neighborhood in Walnut Creek with a median sales price of $ 480,000, as of September 2016.

Europe, where nearly 50 per cent of vehicles are fuelled by diesel, is home to the global benchmark for diesel prices and the biggest storage hub for the road fuel as regional refineries are unable to meet local demand.

It won't be pretty for prices down the road and it will come as a result of capital budgets getting slashed based on artificially depressed prices.

As for me and my house we will stay on the straight and narrow road, turning neither to the left or to the right, keeping our eyes focused on the Pearl of Great Price, Jesus Christ, Himself.

I think that's where we have to draw the line... younger people and much of the educated, get it... but I think «organized» religions will pay a price for their intolerance down the road... as people leave... in disgust.

We should promise him that anytime down the road, as long as it's not less than 5 or 6 years, we'll give him any transfer he asks for so long as it's close to our asking price.

We heard that those who spend big win trophy but what what Leicester City??!! As you said their entire team is not worth what Ozil widths!!!! This guy is at the end of the road in my opinion today he said ticket price is high because we spend TV REVENUE to buy players what a stinking liar!!!

New Leeds manager Thomas Christiansen is eager to make Negredo his 10th summer - signing at Elland road, with the Whites boss willing to meet the La Liga side's # 6.4 M asking price for the player, as per the Mirror, with the Yorkshire club facing competition from Premier League side Swansea City in the race to sign the Spaniard.

They have taken three clean sheets in their last five out on the road as well, so Manchester United to win to nil is running at a price of 6/5 which may have some appeal for punters.

It is a good opportunity to take a good price on Cardiff as they head out on the road.

This reasonably priced product has a self - buckle option for kids and an adjustable back, as well as several features to maximize comfort as you embark on a road trip.

As New York considers congestion pricing, the systems used in London, Singapore and Stockholm could provide a valuable road map.

During a Brooklyn subway trip Wednesday, Cynthia Nixon said New York City needs a «comprehensive» congestion pricing plan that includes new tolls on roads and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo as someone who «is not very interested... in investing in infrastructure.»

Because the county opted to take the higher - priced contract, that money won't pave as many roads as it would have under the low bid, Mahoney said.

The Department for Transport worked with local authorities across England on road pricing pilot schemes, the intention being to use evidence from these as the basis of any national decision.

Sir Rod Eddington reported to the previous Labour government that road pricing could help tackle congestion and in 2005 launched a «national debate» on road pricing, in order that it could be considered as one possible remedy.

According to him, prices of other products such as spare parts, insurance, tyres, road worthy certificates would be considered during the meeting with the Sector Minister.

Also road congestion pricing schemes have been implemented in a limited number of urban areas as a transportation demand management tool to try to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

It looks as if the plan is to make road pricing the ultimate stealth tax.

In its detailed response to the Government's draft Local Transport Bill, the British Motorcyclists Federation have said that the Secretary of State is much better placed to take decisions that have a national relevance such as those on road - pricing schemes.

VED also reflects some costs that fuel prices do not, such as the extra damage to roads done by heavy lorries, they insist.

The committee says there must also be more effort put into taking people off the road - it says a national road pricing scheme should be introduced as soon as possible, while greater emphasis must be placed on improving bus and rail services.

Weighed against should be the increasing evidence that poorer drivers are being forced off the roads by expensive fuel prices, with less money is coming into the Treasury as a result.

That's why we called for a debate on road pricing back in 2005, and why we are working with interested local authorities to bring forward local schemes as targeted solutions to specific congestion problems.

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone predicted this week that Gordon Brown will push ahead with a road pricing scheme as prime minister.

Lower outer borough bridge tolls and money for roads and bridges were in an earlier plan proposed by Move NY, a grass - roots campaign, as a way to garner broader support by distributing the costs and benefits of congestion pricing more equitably across the city.

Today they constitute less than 1 percent of all rolling stock on the road globally, but multiple innovations in features such as the battery's cost and lifetime have made prices so competitive that Tesla has more than 400,000 advance orders for its $ 35,000 Model 3, which is slated to hit the road in the middle of 2018.

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by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

From Phyllis Nagy's script (adapting the 1952 novel The Price of Salt) through the loving cinematography from Edward Lachman (not as flashy as the Mad Max: Fury Roads and Sicarios of the world, but no less impactful), from the shrewd editing of Affonso Goncalves to Carter Burwell's understated yet foundational score and Sandy Powell's beautiful costuming, Haynes has put together a professional crew that sets the tone with aplomb.

As with all technology, there are road bumps, with price and accessibility being the main concerns.

If you traded some of the GT2's all - round usability for a lower price tag and a few more on - road compromises, could you be just as happy?

In truth it's not really a P1 rival, so the price does look somewhat high beside those lesser rivals, both of which are at least as quick as the GT in the real world, and make better road cars.

Still, dirty roads and outrageous fuel prices or not, I'm pleased to report that LP07 is still as hugely addictive as ever and the perfect antidepressant.

On the right road, the ST is as enjoyable and addictive as many performance cars that cost five times the price.

With a base price of # 53,475 though, you have to consider Mercedes» own GLE as a compelling rival, as well as any number of other full off - roaders.

It's not as quick in a straight line, less stable under braking, has less mechanical grip and doesn't flow along a road as convincingly as any of its price rivals.

Its list price of 137,504 euros in Germany (no UK price has been announced yet, but that equates to around # 110K) puts it ahead of far more accomplished cars like the Porsche Cayenne Turbo but the appeal of the G - Class is that it's not a conventional SUV; Mercedes calls it a «performance off - roader», and says it's better viewed as an extremely posh Land Rover Defender rival.

When you buy a ZR2 at the starting price of $ 40,995, you are getting all of the significant off - road technologies standard with the vehicle, as well as an eight - speed automatic transmission and a wealth of other features at no additional cost.»