Sentences with phrase «years of public transportation»

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Usage of public transportation has gone up by 20 % in the past four years.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

Earlier today, representatives from The Vancouver Board of Trade attended a stakeholder briefing at TransLink's office, prior to the public release of the Mayors» Council 30 - Year Transportation Strategy for Metro Vancouver.

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.

VANCOUVER — A New Democrat government will get Metro Vancouver commuters moving again by increasing the provincial share of capital funding for public transportation improvements to 40 percent, clearing the way to shorter commutes and thousands of new construction jobs over the next 10 years.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Earlier today, representatives from The Vancouver Board of Trade attended a stakeholder briefing at TransLink's office, prior to the public release of the Mayors» Council 30 - Year Transportation Strategy for Metro Vancouver.

It is a bad thing for football reporters who face the potential for delays on public transportation, additional headaches when walking from their hotel to the bar and the stronger likelihood of that woman from Telemundo showing up in her bikini to get stared at by 65 - year - old guys with their cell phones on a clip and a branded polo shirt they got from a gift bag.

The union representing Metro Bus drivers and mechanics says it wants the public and the Governor to know members are «very frustrated» about the lack of a contract after eight years of negotiations, and have «no confidence» in the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Executive Director to reach an agreement on their behalf.

East Side Access is the nation's largest public transportation project and the first expansion of the LIRR in more than 100 years.

«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.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation (WCDPW&T) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 schooPublic Works and Transportation (WCDPW&T) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 schoopublic hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 school year

Before this year, I hadn't used public transportation regularly as part of my commute since my Boston days — six years ago, back before I moved to Long Island.

At a public hearing Tuesday, Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb said the condition of Wisconsin's roads will worsen over the next 10 years and projects will be delayed for decades without an increase in spending.

But 90 percent of that highway and bridge spending was already included in the state Department of Transportations 5 - year capital plan last year, according to E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.

«It's never easy to leave an organization after 25 years of service, but I do so knowing that the MTA will continue to serve the public so well and that our governor will ensure New York continues to have the most robust transportation system in the country,» Prendergast said.

After more than a year of meetings, studies and analysis, the MTTF concluded its work in February 2014, and presented its final recommendations to the public, Governor Cuomo, the New York State Thruway Authority and the NYS Department of Transportation.

«The main reason we are here is to get the MTA and the governor to start focusing more on the public transportation needs here on Staten Island, which generally get shortchanged every year,» Astorino said during a press conference on Front Street in Stapleton in the shadow of the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

Thirty years of alternative fuel hype have failed to deliver sales; Public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next since the 1980s; To decarbonize transportation, policymakers need better ways to assess technologies.

But as Patz puts it, «Americans instinctually jump into their cars even for the shortest of trips, missing out on the large public health dividend that comes from daily exercise of active low - carbon transportation, let alone the 7 million lives that could be saved globally every year from low - carbon energy.»

For Sarah Truman, a 40 - year - old manager of a corporate payroll department who was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2010, staying healthy is a constant battle, especially because she takes public transportation to work everyday.

When I spent a brief six weeks in Uganda years ago during a tumultuous election, I grabbed a bag of popcorn before taking public transportation away from the downtown riots.

Even though districts contract year after year with textbook, transportation, and food vendors, management of public schools — a $ 400 billion segment of the economy — had been strictly off limits to private enterprise and market forces for many years.

For example, each grade participates in three project - learning and integrated - studies units each school year on subjects including the kids» families to their school, the history of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, development of Fort Greene Park, and public transportation.

Faced with daily referral slips for student misbehavior on two of the Milford (Massachusetts) Public Schools elementary school buses, a committee of principals, counselors, and transportation and bus company personnel decided last year students needed guidance and incentives to establish better bus - riding behavior.

Subsequent chapters cover Parks's childhood, her marriage, the year - long bus boycott that culminated in the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation, and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Although Bridgeport is allowed to seek state reimbursement for all transportation costs associated with the charter schools in the city, in all the years it has applied for such, in fact, the Bridgeport Public Schools has never received a single dollar of reimbursement for this.

In preparation of its 20 - year planning document, the Transportation Concept Report, the California Department of Transportation held a public meeting titled «Planning the Future of Highway 1» in the largely Hispanic city of Guadalupe, through which Highway 1 runs.

-» (1) IN GENERAL. - Not later than December 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report that includes a list of all of the letters of interest and applications received from project sponsors for assistance under this chapter (other than section 610) during the preceding fiscal year.»

H. Clayton Foushee is the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Director of Audit and Evaluation, AAE, since June 2010, and later, in compliance with FAA's Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112 - 95), was appointed to a 5 - year term by the Secretary of Transportation on September 11, 2012.

Section 609 (b) of Title 23 U.S.C., as amended by Section 2002 of MAP - 21, requires the Secretary of Transportation to submit an application process report to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure that includes a list of all letters of interest and applications received from project sponsors during the preceding fiscal year.

If recipients fail to provide full and open access to transportation for all members of the public, it will cost the American economy millions of dollars each year.

The MAP - 21 requires the Secretary of Transportation to submit an application process report to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure that includes a list of all letters of interest and applications received from project sponsors during the preceding fiscal year.

(7) the remanufacture by such entity of a rail passenger car that is to be used to provide specified public transportation so as to extend its usable life for 10 years or more, or the purchase or lease by such entity of such a rail car, unless the rail car, to the maximum extent feasible, is made readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs.

The Project involves a major interstate expansion and construction of managed tolled lanes under a Public - Private Partnership 50 - year concession arrangement granted by the Virginia Department of Transportation for approximately 22.5 miles of Interstate - 66 in Northern Virginia.

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of approximately $ 5 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2017 Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program (Tribal Transit Program or TTP), contingent on Congressional appropriation.

The 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), a U.S. Department of Transportation effort to collect data on travel by the American public, reports 13 percent of children five to 14 years old usually walked or biked to school compared with 48 percent of students in 1969.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is advancing the project through a public - private partnership with Golden Link Concessionaire, LLC, a private developer Caltrans selected to design, finance and construct the project's second phase and then operate and maintain the facility for 30 years once finished.

Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that describes the feasibility, benefits, and costs of establishing a system of certification of public and private schools and of motor carriers and motorcoach operators that provide motorcoach driver training.

Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has leveraged nearly $ 350 million in public and private funds for smart city and advanced transportationTransportation (U.S. DOT) has leveraged nearly $ 350 million in public and private funds for smart city and advanced transportationtransportation technologies.

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue a final rule to implement the transit asset management system described in subsection (b).

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue rules establishing an evaluation and rating process for --

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue a final rule to establish performance measures for grants under this section.

Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report evaluating --

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue a final rule to establish performance measures based on the state of good repair standards established under subsection (b)(1).

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue a rule that establishes the minimum technical requirements necessary for a metropolitan planning organization to be designated as a tier I MPO, including, at a minimum, modeling, data, staffing, and other technical requirements.

Later this year Waymo will launch the world's first self - driving transportation service allowing members of the public to use Waymo's app to request a vehicle.

Once COA figures for the 2015 - 16 academic year became public, many wondered, for example, how the amount of the stipend covering transportation and personal expenses for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, which is $ 5,666, could be so much higher than the $ 1,580 stipend at the University of Southern California in notoriously expensive Los Angeles.

Our son lives in NYC because he needs the public transportation and has not worked two years out of school so can't consolidate, has a medical condition so we are paying $ 1200 a month in medical costs and now $ 1500 a month in four Discover loans that they will not budge on, not even a little.

Other ways to make retirement work at 50 includes taking a part - time job for some or all of the gap years, putting off luxury purchases such as travel and higher - end cars — or even eliminating the need for a car, if you live or relocate to a city with convenient public transportation.