However, the environment lobby fears there will still be major road building in the future.
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Its products are used in the construction, road building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries.
Establishment of industrial-development zones, urban expansion and road building are all shrinking agricultural land.
The Lynn Road building was one of 93 magistrates' courts across England and Wales closed by the Ministry of Justice.
For the road building act's reauthorization, the association touts its "bold new plan, " but a few of the ideas here won't surprise.
Capital spending, in English, is things like road building: George Osborne said he would fund upgrades to the A1, A30, and M25.
Protesters involved in an anti-road building campaign dubbed "the second Battle of Hastings" have vowed to stand firm amid fears they could be evicted.
Similar problems have also been reported in road building and property construction, prompting a growing number of demonstrations and violent incidents, including clashes with employers and suicides.
But the outright rejection of national targets for traffic reduction, coupled with the renewed emphasis on road building, shows that the motoring lobby is alive and well.
Between them, the fiscal investment and loan programme and the 30-odd special budgets for specific undertakings (eg, road building) add up to more than the national budget.
Part of the reason for this decline is that many toads become homeless each year as wild ponds are lost due to road building, development, pollution, intensive farming and drought.
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He designed his first Treetent not for a campsite, but for a group of environmental activists in the UK who were hoping to frustrate a road building program through protected woodland.
Once, before the palatial Coyote Hill Road building was constructed, a group that Starkweather had to be connected to was moved to another building, across the Foothill Expressway, half a mile away.
Despite, his concerns, Mr Mittal said some countries were performing strongly in regard to their spending on infrastructure, covering everything from electricity generation and distribution, to road building and provision of fresh water.
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The greens thought they had won the intellectual war over the economics of road building after the government's technical committee SACTRA warned in the 1990s that there was no guarantee that road building would stimulate jobs.
The most economical and effective congestion solutions involve traditional road building and transit use, combined with traffic management strategies such as signal coordination and rapid crash removal, and demand management strategies like telecommuting and flexible work hours.
But I suspect that this government and future ones will use global warming and the specious link to man-made CO2 emissions as an excuse for stopping road building and to increase taxes on all kinds of fuel.
Yet its bureaucrats insist on a ruinous road-building programme that has the taxpayer shelling out for more road building in 2001 than in 1969, when Japan needed many more motorways and its economy was growing at 10% a year.
At this time, a reconstruction program involving mine clearance, road building, food and medicine distribution, refugee return and infrastructure repair would be taken on by the UN administration with the cooperation of the militias and under the protection of the foreign military.
First, foreign aid should be specifically allocated to infrastructure, a commitment from foreign governments to donate a specific amount over a twenty-year period toward road building, improvement of electrical grids, and ports, and training for Haitians so they can properly maintain the new infrastructure.
There is a discussion at the end of the book about what the correct road-building policy should be.
At first, the bureaucrats flatly rejected Mr Koizumi's push to privatise these road-building enterprises.
Second, the bureaucrats say they will accept privatisation only if existing road-building plans do not change.
The European Commission says it has interrupted funding worth 957.2m euros for road-building in Poland.
Road-building at more than 200 separate points across the city of 7.4m people is choking traffic.
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Demand may be restrained if growing traffic congestion outpaces even China's vigorous road-building programme.
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Car ownership and use has continued to rise even as road-building levelled off in the 1990s.
To address a big weakness of the previous government, road-building, an able minister, Kamal Nath, was appointed.
But if they can, they would cause more, not less, concern about the ecological effects of road-building.
Opposition politicians have called for the head of the state road-building agency GDDKiA to resign over the affair.
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