Sentences with phrase «withheld federal highway»

Instead, they withheld federal highway funds and forced him to take the signs down.

The federal government, for public safety reasons, will withhold some federal highway funds from states that set their drinking age younger than 21 but Congress has never tried to pass a law setting the drinking age nationally at 21.

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On Thursday, FHWA Acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT Acting Commissioner Paul A. Karas and New York State Thruway Authority Acting Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll, notifying them that the federal government would be withholding an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it provides New York each year for use on such projects as bridge and highway improvements.

DOT officials announced on Feb. 2 that all of the remaining signs would be taken down to make way for a new tourism campaign and signage — a day after Highway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvHighway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvhighway improvements.

Under scrutiny then was a federal law that threatened to withhold 5 percent of a state's highway grant if the state did not raise its drinking age to 21.

The proposed federal law would use the threat of withheld highway funds to pressure those states that haven't passed such laws to think again.