Sentences with phrase «rural roads and bridges»

As rural roads and bridges continue to crumble, local officials seek ways to fund much - needed projects.

Not exact matches

The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, appearing in Keene, Essex County, yesterday to survey damage to the North Country, announced he would suspend the permitting prcoess required by the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation so that rural areas could make emergency repairs to bridges, roads and other infrastructure damaged by Irene.

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For those living in the rural communities outside of Montreal, «road» doesn't always mean asphalt, and frozen rivers double as seasonal, state - maintained ice bridges.

But with modernization and infrastructure development — bridges, roads, rural electrification, Internet and more — contact and globalization have set human and wild nature on an ugly collision course.

Obama has pledged three million new jobs with his stimulus plan, which also includes tax cuts, investment in computerizing medical records, modernizing schools and universities, repairing roads and bridges and expanding broadband access to rural towns.