It also allows it to tip off users to traffic jams, road construction and other obstacles.
Road construction projects, on the other hand, seem to be more like on-the-job learning.
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Yet for the past three decades the proceeds from the levy have been earmarked for road construction.
Instead, the funds were intercepted by government bureaucrats and redirected into road construction and other nifty public works.
He could raise rural incomes by allocating more of the money spent on road construction to farm-to-market roads.
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And despite the never-ending stretch of road construction through the state of Virginia, many roads across the country need repair.
On Sunday, an American service member and two Afghan road construction workers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan.
That suggests that bottlenecks are closely related to road construction, he says.
Stornoway has several short term milestones they are looking to achieve involving resource expansion, permitting, decreasing capital expenditure numbers and now road construction.
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It appears that most of the soldiers targeted had been working in road construction, part of the army's strategy for winning hearts and minds locally.
That drew attention to other mishaps: persistent delays in road construction, ghastly gaps in care for the mentally ill, and episodes of apparent political cronyism.
In a text message to the user's device, drivers will get the location and severity of accidents or new road construction causing areas of heavy congestion.
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Mr Qian (through a Sina Weibo account) had long complained of mistreatment by the authorities when his homes were demolished to make way for road construction.
She suspects that a skeleton uncovered by a road construction crew is that of her late husband (and Owen's father), who supposedly drowned in a flood decades ago.
Property damage claims were analyzed over a two-year period (from January 2009 to December 2010) to ensure the findings would not be impacted by external influences such as weather or road construction.
It was an approach that said we need to go through the budget line-by-line looking for waste, without shortchanging education and basic scientific research and road construction, because those things are essential to our future.
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The proposal would immediately restrict road construction in one-fourth of the national forestland, and set in motion a procedure through which local forest officials would determine what activities are consistent with the values of an additional 11 million acres of forest.
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Given the tremendous investment made by municipalities across the country in road construction, exit ramps, turn lanes, bus routes, and traffic lights, all in support of the mall sales tax revenues, the American Mall cannot become a dinosaur and must evolve.
They mobilize their networks of contacts road construction teams, guys who sell diesel generators, or better yet the people they know who are building the new power plant, their friends at Huawei or ZTE to get the telecoms situation in shape.
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Tell Congress to get past their differences and send me a road construction bill -- (applause) -- so that companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports. (Applause.) I mean, think about it.
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Remember that getting from place to place may take longer than you think, especially with summer road-construction delays.
Bill Hammack is preparing layoffs at his road-construction company in Georgia.
Advertising engagement met advertising disruption head-on when an additional 40 minutes was added to what is normally a lengthy commute on the Kennedy and Edens expressways, and the experience was compared to a bad road-construction project.
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Just in industries directly related to autos, trillions of dollars change hands each year flowing to and from auto insurers, auto financiers, service and repair shops, rental agencies, taxi operators, fleet managers, oil companies, transportation and logistics companies, emergency rooms, health insurers, medical practices, personal-injury lawyers, government taxing authorities, road-construction companies, parking-lot operators, and on and on and on.
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The fact is that a driverless car would slash hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue, or even trillions, from all sorts of entities: car makers, parts suppliers, car dealers, auto insurers, auto financiers, body shops, emergency rooms, health insurers, medical practices, personal-injury lawyers, government taxing authorities, road-construction companies, parking-lot operators, oil companies, owners of urban real estate, and on and on and on.
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Some drivers even diverted from the carefully planned route to take gravel roads and a barely-cut road still under construction.
"If states aren't really using all of their gas tax revenue for road maintenance and construction, then there's good reason for outrage, " says Ahern.
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