Sentences with phrase «road schemes for»

· Investing # 42 million to develop the pipeline of potential Highways Agency road schemes for investment in the next spending review period; and

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The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

Despite meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, U.K. prime minister Theresa May will not give written support for China's ambitious Belt and Road project, due to concerns that contracts under the scheme will unfairly favour Chinese companies.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The suspected mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was convicted on narcotics and other charges on Wednesday for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

In this scheme, education becomes «the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge» (AE 6), and Whitehead is well remembered for having detailed two related pitfalls on the road to acquiring this art.

Another massive result for Tottenham Hotspur and Pochettino in the grand scheme of things, at Vicarage Road, that has now opened up a breathing space between themselves and the rest of the chasing pack, in the competition for Champions League spots.

«Due to the perceived lack of public support for road pricing, any scheme must also provide significant improvements in the capacity and quality of viable alternative travel by public transport.»

This is on top of a record # 6Bn for maintaining local roads, # 7Bn for the Local Growth Fund, # 1.25 Bn for local transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their areas.

Amid the plans for 84 new road schemes are plans to spend # 300 million on an «environmental fund to mitigate carbon emission (sic) and reduce the number of people affected by serious noise.»

A DfT spokesman commented: «This Government is taking the big decisions for Britain's future, and we are investing a record # 15Bn on road schemes which will cut congestion, speed up journeys and boost the economy across the country.

Yet the fence - and - road scheme has been progressing for a while without enough audible voices pointing out that this is an unworkable project.

As a result, an average road improvement has induced an additional 10 % of base traffic in the short term and 20 % in the long term: individual schemes with induced traffic at double this level may not be very unusual, especially for peak periods.

«Mayor Boris Johnson must improve air quality by prioritising funding for measures that will get Londoners driving less and walking, cycling and using public transport more - and scrap traffic generating schemes like new road crossings over the river Thames.»

These schemes see utility companies charged up to # 2500 a day for digging up the busiest roads at peak times, incentivising them to work outside of rush hour or to collaborate with other firms to synchronise works.

The party also advocates the substitution of council tax by a land - value tax; extra funding for the NHS and public transport; the scrapping of road - building schemes; massive investment in renewable energy; a radical reduction in carbon dioxide emissions; and opposition to GM crop initiatives and fracking.

Labour has no choice - the economic news is so bad that the debt fuel pyramid confidence scheme can't be kept on the road for much longer.

Chris Grayling has also committed funding to develop business cases for six transport schemes: the Sheffield city region innovation corridor, Melton Mowbray eastern distributor road, a New Tees Crossing, dualling of the A500 in Cheshire, the South Coventry Link Road and an extension to Manchester's Metrolink towards terminal two at the city's airproad, a New Tees Crossing, dualling of the A500 in Cheshire, the South Coventry Link Road and an extension to Manchester's Metrolink towards terminal two at the city's airpRoad and an extension to Manchester's Metrolink towards terminal two at the city's airport.

«The schemes I am announcing are focused on relieving congestion and providing important upgrades to ensure our roads are fit for the future.»

George Osborne has promised to spend nearly # 10bn on road schemes across the UK in the next five years, many of which will be committed to the Highways Agency in a plan that under the new Infrastructure Act will be difficult for a future government to unravel.

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.

«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.

The secretary of state for transport Douglas Alexander explains where the government stands so far on road pricing, ahead of local government pilot schemes.

Also in the Treasury documents are potentially far - reaching to objectives for roads policy which could revive zombie road schemes across the country.

Road vehicle ownership had been taxed since the earliest days of motor vehicles, with the UK's first schemes for «light locomotives» introduced in 1896.

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.

«After the first 237 incarnations on news bulletins, I struggled to see how this theme could be developed further, yet the BBC continued to lead with speculation about bizarre consequences of a Labour - SNP government for the economy, tax, and even road schemes.

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.

However, the secretary of state for transport Douglas Alexander insisted this week the government had no plans for a nation wide road pricing scheme until it had observed the effect of local small - scale schemes.

Members of Labour's shadow cabinet have praised Barking and Dagenham Council for a scheme which involves naming new roads after service men and women killed in action.

The scheme was introduced in 2013 when 50 state of the art ambulances were put on the road for medical emergencies, a scheme which has been used to save a lot of lives in situations of emergency in the state.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

Back on Earth, cost benefit analysis is the Treasury's test of whether a road scheme is value for money.

«One can't avoid the conclusion that many ambitious schemes for road expansion are veering dangerously off - track,» said Dr Alamgir.

The study's authors say that this new global road - mapping scheme can be used as a working model that can be adapted to for specific areas.

Dr Demmel said rear - end collisions account for around one in five crashes on Queensland roads and contribute to 25 per cent of the total cost of claims to the Queensland compulsory third party (CTP) scheme.

And considering the color scheme for Miller's last opus, «Mad Max: Fury Road,» potentially appropriate.

However, Mini chose a truly hideous color scheme for the maps, with freeways appearing in pink and secondary roads in fluorescent green.

If you are familiar with Jeep's naming schemes, «Trailhawk» is a name used for hardcore off - road models of the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee.

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.

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The nearest docking stations for Transport for London's cycle hire scheme are located next the tennis courts in Regent's Park, towards Baker Street on Marylebone Road, next to Great Portland Street Underground station or on Albany street.

Perhaps best known for the Alexandra Road estate on Rowley Way, in the London Borough of Camden, Brown was a pioneer of high - density, low - rise schemes in the 1970s.

Outline planning permission was granted in August 2012 for the scheme, subject to various legal conditions and reserved matters applications, on the 150 - hectare site of university farmland situated in between Huntingdon and Madingley roads and the M11.

Take Seville, often reckoned too hot and cramped for cyclists, which has gone from 2,000 cycle trips per day to 72,000 in seven years, thanks to mayor Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín's strategy of building cycle lanes, reducing road space for cars and launching a cycle hire scheme.

It also clears the way for motor accident victims to seek redress directly from the Motor Insurers» Bureau (MIB) by relying exclusively on European Union (EU) law, independently of the complex and sometimes conflicting provisions of Pt VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988; the European Communities Rights Against Insurers Regulations 2002; the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance)(Information Centre and Compensation Body) Regulations 2003 and / or the MIB's private law agreements with the Secretary of State for Transport set out in four concurrent schemes.

Acting for Highways England in relation to its first application for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project in relation to the A19 / A1058 Coast Road scheme in North Tyneside.

SM v Secretary of State for Transport: instructed by and advising Defendant in relation to a substantial s278 Highways Act contribution dispute which arose with Developer of major (road) construction scheme.

Fixed costs for road traffic accident (RTA) portal cases are to be reduced at the end of April, while the expansions to the portal scheme will take place in July, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has confirmed.

Advising Pembrokeshire County Council on the promotion of compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) and side road orders for a by - pass road scheme.

Manchester - based Scot Morrison regularly handles PPP projects; his recent highlights include assisting the London Borough of Haringey with the establishment of the Haringey Development Vehicle and acting for the London Borough of Wandsworth on the establishment of a joint venture vehicle to deliver a regeneration scheme in the Winstanley and York Road estates.