Sentences with phrase «working on transportation»

«There are so many people working on transportation issues, but it is really important that all of them are at the table.

Despite the added responsibilities and challenges, he recognizes that working on a transportation - linked excavation also provides opportunities archaeologists might not otherwise enjoy.

«President Obama called on us to rebuild America by putting people back to work on transportation projects, and we are doing that throughout the Denver region,» said Secretary LaHood.

Not exact matches

Jersey Standard photographers cover certain routine assignments such as official dinners and tanker launchings, but for the most part they work on «picture essays» — a detailed coverage of the Gloucester fishing fleet, for example, or lumbering in the Northwest, or river transportation.

If you've used an Apple mouse (IDEO fashioned the company's first, in 1980), swept with a Procter & Gamble (PG) Swiffer (it collaborated on the hit), or even stood in line at an airport recently (the firm has worked with the Transportation Security Administration to make the process friendlier), you've felt the legacy of David Kelley.

There are no statistics to show whether texting played a role in any of the fatalities, but «when you keep records for 40 years and see two consecutive years with the back - to - back largest, that tells me there was a game changer,» said Richard Retting, a former traffic safety commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation who worked on the report.

When that work dried up, he tried to bid on a project for the New York Department of Transportation, but the work required a bond.

The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.

While these teams, along with larger companies such as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are working on solving the technical issues of the hyperloop, other challenges exist ahead for the transportations system.

The company is also working with D.C. transit agencies and SharedStreets in a public - private collaboration to share data on how people are using transportation.

The transportation sector is «too big an opportunity not to work on,» he says, noting that the potential market for automobile fuels is greater than all the natural gas produced in North America today.

More recently as wages in China have risen, some economists see some «near shoring» of work back to Mexico that would allow manufacturers to save on transportation costs, given the shorter distance to U.S. markets.

«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

From soaring fuel costs to lost work hours to increased greenhouse gases, transportation gridlock is like slow - drip torture on the economy, gradually sapping its productivity.

Today, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade calls on all Members of the Legislative Assembly to work together to enable British Columbians to access innovative transportation options.

Now, Musk has founded a new division called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which has employed hundreds of experts and researchers to work on the project.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

We're working hard on civil aviation with ICAO, on marine transportation with the IMO, International Maritime Organization.

Yet there is no denying the extraordinary, permanent transformation Kalanick and his on - demand car service have wrought on ground transportation.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Today, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade calls on all Members of the Legislative Assembly to work together to enable British Columbians to access innovative transportation options.

You realize that most people, most workers in America have to spend 20 percent of their income just on basic goods and services — food, clothing, transportation to get to work.

In Colorado, the Department of Transportation worked with Otto for a number of months evaluating the company's technology and joining on test runs before agreeing to let an Otto semi roll along without a driver in the cab.

The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

Earlier this week, the Department of Transportation issued a 112 - page document aimed at ensuring that those working on self - driving tech prioritize safety and share applicable and non-proprietary data to speed the arrival of an autonomous future.

On top of the money you lose, you're left without transportation to work, making it even harder to make an income.

I don't keep a car here — only the very rich, the very stupid, or those who commute elsewhere to work do that — so transportation is either by subway, cab, or on foot, and it's mostly the latter.

To that end, Pellerito Foods has been working on building a network of partners to help it gain exposure in outside markets without increasing transportation costs.

«When we really looked at our dependence on fossil fuels for practically everything needed to live comfortably in Maine — home heating, transportation to work and school, even getting Hannaford's shelves restocked every 5 days — an ecologically - minded cohousing community seemed like one viable and attractive alternative.

McLaughlin said village planned to work on areas business owners identified as weaknesses — transportation, street repair and code enforcement — in 2014.

Because the Illinois Department of Transportation has told the Park District to install a better drainage system, that $ 200,000 won't even cover the cost of completing the work on the parking lot, which at times resembles a small lake after heavy rains.

her way of transportation is army crawl =P She's already saying da da but won't say ma ma yet but we're working on it!

Her previous work experience includes the Center for Community Change as a policy analyst on transportation issues and Housing Comes First, Missouri's statewide low - income housing coalition, as director of tenant organizing.

Fifty years later, the rail line folded and the Regional Transportation Authority bought the Rock Island relic for use on work trains.

You may not be able to take public transportation to work, switch to cloth diapers, hang your laundry on the line, or toss out all your environmentally unfriendly cleaners right now.

He however added that d construction works on major roads and other projects under the Ministry will resume immediately to facilitate accessible transportation across length and breadth of the country.

Cuomo and Christie have worked together before on a variety of bi-state needs, especially when it comes to transportation issues.

He previously worked as a senior transportation analyst for the Ways and Means Committee as well as other committees on corporations and authorities and real property taxation.

The Vice President on what the current administration has down with little resources available to it said, «Today, with less revenue, we have increased capital funding by 400 percent as the minister has said, in power, works and housing, in defence, transportation, agriculture.

Also at 12:15 p.m., members of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council's Program, Finance and Administration Committee meet to act on amendments to Plan 2045 and the year's Unified Planning Work Program, NYMTC Office, 25 Beaver St., Suite 201, Manhattan.

Susan Surdej of the state Department of Transportation discusses the work starting today on the Skyway and its impact on the region's commuters.

In an open letter issued by Cuomo to Amtrak President and CEO Richard Anderson on Sunday, Cuomo joined Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in urging the station name be changed in honor of the former representative who worked to secure better public transportation in the region.

«We look forward to continuing to work with the governor and the legislature on implementing the comprehensive recommendations as outlined in the FixNYC plan to ensure New Yorkers have access to a spectrum of affordable, reliable and convenient transportation options,» Campbell Matthews, a Lyft spokesman, said in a statement.

«Brian Kavanagh has worked hard in the Assembly on issues of critical importance to Brooklyn — affordable housing, reforming our criminal justice system, creating an equitable transportation system and combatting the effects of climate change.

In debates and on the campaign trail, Golden, a retired police officer and former owner of the Bay Ridge Manor catering hall, is touting his record of getting funding for local schools and parks, fighting for improved transportation services and working to bring jobs to Brooklyn.

She serves on the Legislature's environment, planning and agriculture, health, public safety, public works, transportation and energy, and ways and means committees.

The teens have been in contact with Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski's office and are working to get the state Department of Transportation on board.

«I have known Jimmy for many years, and I am greatly impressed with his work on the issues that matter most, like education, transportation, libraries, public safety and quality of life.

On NY1, Cuomo explained how he sees economic development, saying that «in Upstate New York [it] means basically restoring the economy, and in downstate New York it means growing the future economy — the high tech economy, having the transportation infrastructure to do that — and making sure the economy is working for everyone.»

The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation have already held two meetings for the public to comment and county lawmakers get a chance to share their thoughts on the bus system.

County transportation officials have studied these lines and are working on strategies that they hope will make commuting easier by either reducing running times or making the routes more convenient.