Sentences with phrase «road workers»

In the summer of 1988 two highway road workers decide to leave their city lives behind.

The harness has straps, and some have reflective sections that show up brightly in the dark, a bit like the reflective vests that road workers wear.

There is little to protect road workers from negligent drivers, meaning when a collision happens, their injuries are often quite serious.

In summer, motor vehicle accidents involving road workers increase, as do injuries from on - site machinery at construction and road construction sites.

Through this apocalyptic wasteland begging for a movie, Green sends a pair of road workers painting highway lines during one sweltering summer.

While Long Island Rail Road workers feast on overtime, its service is the worst it's been in nearly two decades, according to a state report released yesterday.

The plot is a «Waiting For Godot» - like two - hander (starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch) about two at - odds - with - each other highway road workers spending their summer toiling away in the middle of nowhere while both nursing female troubles; «Avalanche» is both hilarious, meditative and deeply full of life.

Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery — a series of enormous earth carvings, barely perceptible from the ground.

«As far as roads are concerned, especially for road workers, road transporters and the unions, it is ultimately an index of doing business.

By no means does Prince Avalanche look to be in form with DGG's still much beloved debut George Washington, but it does have Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two highway road workers who are at each others throats.

Road workers ensure that all material and equipment being used in a road construction project conform to standards.

«Our survey showed road workers on site had the biggest impact on drivers to reduce speed, while the most effective specific measure was having police visually present and potentially conducting enforcement,» he said.

Dr Blackman's survey involved more than 400 people who were asked to estimate their speed for a range of different roadwork site scenarios, some of which were inactive sites and others with road workers visible.

In Kagebangara (2007), Gowda sourced tar drums from road workers and used these alongside yellow and blue plastic tarpaulins to form an abstract sculpture, within which a narrative unfolds that refers to the shelters used by migrant construction workers.

Highways England is calling on road users to be patient if they are delayed by roadworks and to respect road workers doing a difficult job.

Research by Highways England reveals a catalogue of serious incidents and near misses ranging from motorists driving into coned off areas where road workers are working to physical and verbal abuse.

Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star, respectively, as Alvin and Lance, two road workers tasked with replanting signposts and repainting yellow lines following a devastating 1986 wildfire in Texas.

But the film has even weirder angles to it than that: how the old woman eventually turns out to be a ghost of some sort, and the how the leavening mysterious female presence offers a counterpoint to the broadly macho old - man ghost that offers Alvin and his fellow road worker, Lance (Emile Hirsch), drinks and, by extension, tempting them to indulge in their inner macho selves.

(Think about car allowances and how many on - the - road workers buy bigger, tougher vehicles because they can afford them once they put their contribution in on top of yours.)

Ferry simply effected a repair using two pieces of scrap iron from an amenable road worker and carried on.

National Work Zone Awareness Week, sponsored by federal, state and local transportation officials each April, draws attention to the safety needs of road workers during construction season.

Parts of the video at the top of this review were shot parked near road workers operating a jackhammer, but we simply shut the doors and shut the sound out.

It is really coming together together for my road building birthday party Sunday — huge thanks to Jana and CJ who donated 38 lunches for the regular road workers this morning.

One project might be the wind farm proposed by Iberdrola in northeastern North Carolina, within commuting distance of Hampton Roads workers.

Sometimes, some people are injured in road accidents across Kansas due to poor road conditions or sloppy workmanship left in dangerous positions by road workers acting negligently.

ACHIEVEMENTS • Finished the M6 road project within deadline leaving room of 18 days for performing quality measures • Promoted from general maintenance worker to road worker following exceptional acumen in building and construction work

Members of the unions representing most Long Island Rail Road workers have overwhelmingly approved the four - year contract that was negotiated last month.

-- Prince Avalanche (Directed by David Gordon Green, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch)- Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives.

Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery --

This stuff may have military uses, but if I can get hold of some, I'll make safety jackets for cycling at night, or for road workers, or maybe emergency workers.

LEGO has released a batch of promotional images for its 2018 polybags which includes a LEGO Robot / Vehicle free build (30499), LEGO City Hot Dog Stand (30356), LEGO City Road Worker (30357), LEGO City Dragster (30358), LEGO Creator Yellow Flyer (30540), LEGO Creator Cute Pug 3 in 1 (30542), LEGO Disney Ariel's Underwater Symphony (30552), LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Royal Talon Fighter (30450), LEGO -LSB-...]

The film — a character study about two road workers who bicker and banter with each other as they tediously paint road lines in a burned down Texas state park — is a notably weightier comedy than most Rudd vehicles (this isn't one), striking some beautiful, poignant notes along with the funny dialogue.

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Highways professionals will tackle the issues of road worker and road user safety at this autumn's Highways UK event

Road workers are being subjected to a huge cocktail of lethal poisons, but do you ever see them using face masks?»

Worried time is running out, several Long Island State Senators are urging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to intercede in the stalled contract negotiations between the MTA and Long Island Rail Road workers.

Perry had most recently prosecuted a successful $ 1 billion disability - fraud case involving Long Island Rail Road workers, and she'd risen to become deputy chief of the criminal division.

ALBANY — The looming strike of Long Island Rail Road workers is not Governor Andrew Cuomo's problem, he told reporters on Monday.

«We found when a road worker and machinery were visible, drivers nominated lower speeds, suggesting that they were far more likely to slow down than if they saw no activity,» he said.

Helena Bonham Carter plays Red Harrington, a madam in a brothel that does not at all shy away from the fact that her girls «entertain» the rail road workers.

David Gordon Green's «Prince Avalanche» is a wayward buddy comedy starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two highway road workers.

Prince Avalanche / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Gordon Green)-- Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives.

In the summer of 1988 two road workers, Alvin (Rudd) and Lance (Hirsch) are tasked with doing maintenance on an area of bush land recently destroyed by a fire.

Get off the phone, pay attention to the road, be considerate of road workers and other road users and obey the posted speed limits!

Road workers, old crinkly women dressed in black, children who should be in school and animals in fields — everyone looks at the Giugiaro Mustang.

In addition to warning drivers about stiff penalties they face in work zones, agencies also appeal to motorists» humanity by asking them to place themselves in a road worker's boots.