Sentences with phrase «road schemes in»

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.

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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.

Lo was leading a six - day Hong Kong - Shanghai business mission to Jakarta and Manila in the Philippines to explore the infrastructure needs of the two Asean countries, which Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies will be incentivised to fulfil under the belt and road scheme.

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.

Fuel Tax: Fuel tax is a road pricing scheme in which motorists pay a tax on the fuel they buy at the pump.

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.

If Sutton really is planning on changing some schemes to be more attack oriented, we could see a middle of the road defense in 2018.

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.

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She joined East Sussex County Council in 1979 where she was involved in the transport planning aspects of road schemes and major development proposals.

We're committing an extra billion pounds to roads, including four major new schemes to: upgrade key sections of the A1, bringing the route from London to Newcastle up to motorway standard; link the A5 with the M1; dual the A30 in Cornwall; and upgrade the M25, which will support the biggest port developments in Europe, and I pay tribute to my

«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.

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

Nineteen councils across England have been successful in securing a share of # 75M after they were asked to put forward schemes which could make a real difference to road users.

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.

The amount of extra traffic must be heavily dependent on the context, size and location of road schemes, but an appropriate average value is given by an elasticity of traffic volume with respect to travel time of about − 0.5 in the short term, and up to − 1.0 in the long term.

He also urged authorities to reinvest all surplus lane rental revenues in road improvement schemes, a call echoed by the Freight Transport Association.

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.

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.

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.

Adam Price, Plaid Cymru parliamentary transport spokesperson, explains why Plaid support road pricing in principle, pointing to the success of congestion charging and small - scale road pricing schemes.

«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 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.

The initial project list aimed at improving the Strategic Road Network outlined in the National Infrastructure Plan is encouraging but if the UK is to gain the full economic benefit, this must be extended beyond just these schemes.

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.

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

Local road pricing schemes received even less support in the survey, with 51 per cent of people claiming they were against the idea, with the north east of England showing the highest level of opposition at 72 per cent.

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.

These, in turn, raise school numbers and allow infrastructure projects to be developed, such as roads and renewable energy schemes.

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.

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.

«It's vital that everyone with an interest - private motorists, the business community, central and local government, road safety and environmental campaigners - is given the chance to see how schemes operate in the real world.»

Six years later with the growing number of bikes on our roads, more and more cycle lanes being introduced and the introduction of excellent schemes which I take advantage of such as the cycle hire scheme in London.

Any local scheme will give us all a much clearer idea of how road pricing could work in practice.

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.

Rates of road traffic casualties had started falling before the introduction of the scheme, and continued to fall afterwards, but at a greater rate in young people, largely among passengers and cyclists.

A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.

The road map brings national priorities in line with the European Commission's nascent 7 - year funding scheme, Horizon 2020, in part because France hopes that its researchers will score better in that program than they have in previous E.U. funding rounds.

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.

There isn't much in the way of an overarching concern (troublingly, one of the few recurring thematic elements appears to involve a metaphorical fear of immigration, though maybe we're reading too much into it), with even the road of the title not really proving to be all that important in the grand scheme of things.

In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, based on the record - breaking book series, a family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course — thanks to Greg's newest scheme to (finally!)

It is expected that audit recommendations could include: moving school entrances and play areas away from busy roads; «no engine idling» schemes; changes to local roads, including improved road layouts and pedestrianisation around school entrances; green infrastructure such as «barrier bushes» along busy roads and in playgrounds to filter toxic fumes; and improvements to encourage walking and cycling to school along less polluted routes.

The 208 has become quite a familiar shape on UK roads, but it's not an unattractive one and both GTis feature all the appropriate hot hatch addenda — lower bumpers, large wheels (18 inches in this case) and striking colour schemes.

While the original concept was displayed in a striking yellow, echoing one of the road - going colour schemes of the period, the latest concept — dubbed the 3.0 CSL Hommage R — wears white paintwork and BMW Motorsport stripes, echoing that IMSA car of 1975.

Matching the Sedona with the same color scheme, a custom - built aluminum trailer painted in red and sporting 18 - inch powder - coated white wheels carries a CRG Road Rebel shifter kart.

The death rates on our roads are much reduced nowadays, thanks in part to schemes that disincentivise bad driving, as well as ones that promote good driving.