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The contractor responsible for works on Civil Aviation Avenue, the road to the airport, has been fined Lm4,000 for traffic management shortcomings, Roads Minister Jesmond Mugliett said. In an interview with The Times, Mr Mugliett explained that contractors are responsible for traffic management close to the site of works, with the rest left in the Malta Transport Authority's hands. But traffic management close to the road - which was completed just weeks ago after giving motorists a headache for months - left much to be desired. At one point a hand-written fluorescent sign on a concrete boulder was pointing the way to the airport but someone unfamiliar with the local roads would have been sent on a wild-goose chase. The minister said the authority's main complaint was the contractor switching the lanes he was working on without informing the ADT's architects, something that at times led to chaos.
HUTCHINSON ISLAND State transportation officials have created a novel way to keep grouper, snapper and other fish away from the Ernest Lyons Bridge during peak construction times. In an effort to avoid the massive fish kill that resulted from underwater explosions used to break up old sections of the Jensen Beach Causeway, workers will use a "bubble curtain" surrounding the area where the latest blasts are scheduled to occur. .
SKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PayNet announces the release of its new Construction Equipment Credit Score, which is the most predictive score PayNet has built yet. It is expected to quickly become the industry standard for financing construction equipment, just as PayNet's Transportation Equipment Credit Score quickly became the standard in that marketplace. Developed jointly by some of the top modeling mathematicians in the world working with experienced construction credit professionals and using the largest data pool of construction equipment loans and leases ever compiled, this new score is not only empirically derived and statistically sound, but also a true credit professional's score, looking at the factors and issues that experienced lenders know drive performance in the real world.
When Linda Wilson found out a home at the end of her street was being rented she didn't think anything of it, until the Sept. 13 issue of the Okeechobee News hit the street. It was then she realized the home had been rented to two men who were convicted sexual offenders. "I didn't know about it until I read about it in the newspaper and I recognized the address as being on my street," said Mrs. Wilson. "I didn't know when they first moved in who they were." But now, she's making sure everyone knows. At the center of her concern is that as many as four more convicted sex offenders may be moved into the home at 7272 N.W. 81st Court in Dixie Ranch Acres. Because there are an estimated 16 children living on that street, Mrs. Wilson has contacted Okeechobee County Sheriff Paul May, Okeechobee County Commissioner Gene Woods, Okeechobee County attorney John Cassels and the office of State Senator J.D.
A nonprofit organization that is paid by Sarasota County to provide affordable housing strategies will reportedly pursue the conversion of investor-owned local mobile home parks to resident ownership through a prestigious foundation. On Sept. 26, Community Housing Trust of Sarasota Chief Executive Officer Martina Guilfoil told the county commission she would contact the Ford Foundation and determine whether it would consider financing area buyouts to keep existing parks intact. "It (the foundation) has funds for conversions to cooperative ownership," she said. "I'd like a representative to visit Sarasota and show us how we could work on a pilot project. Hopefully, it could be done with Ford Foundation money, and as a last resort public money." The Ford Foundation was created in 1936 by Edsel and Henry Ford.
146 years after Anglo-French Forces stormed into Beijing's Yuanmingyan and burnt it to the ground, a Chinese private foundation announced Thursday that it would build a replica of the famous royal gardens. The China Culture Relics Protection Foundation and privately-owned Zhejiang Hengdian Foundation for Chinese Cultural Development, led by 72-year-old Xu Wenrong, will collaborate on the replica project. They intend to build the replica in Hengidan in Zhejiang Province. Funds will be raised in China and overseas to build the replica and collect cultural treasures from the garden, said Xu Wenrong, chairman of Zhejiang Hengdian Foundation for Chinese Cultural Development. "The replica will be a 1:1 imitation of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) complex, featuring the three main building clusters of Yuanming, Changchun and Yichuan gardens.
Bauerly Bros., Inc., Sauk Rapids, has been awarded the bid to complete the approximately 600-foot unfinished section of 21st Avenue (Pine Loft Road) and connect it to Highway 95. Bauerly had the low bid of $301,801. Hardrives, Inc., the only other bidder, came in at $322,313. The engineers estimate for the project was $243,429. Connecting the road to Highway 95 will involve installing three turn lanes and adjusting the current Highway 95 median at the location, all part of the bid. A left turn lane off Highway 95 onto 21st Avenue will be installed for westbound traffic. There will be a right turn lane and a left turn lane installed for eastbound traffic. The right turn lane for eastbound traffic will allow turning onto 21st Avenue. The left turn lane for eastbound drivers will allow turning into the residential area on the north side of Highway 95.
ARLINGTON:- U.S. engineers plan to hit the gas on reconstruction in Afghanistan, with double the number of projects in the region planned for this fiscal year, said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, head of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Afghan Engineer District has plans for about 600 reconstruction projects, officials said. The engineering district conducts construction and engineering projects in Central Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan, officials said. Projects will focus on transportation, water and power infrastructure, Strock said, calling reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan a "race against time." The acceleration of reconstruction projects will continue until 2008, by which time the Corps should have built enough infrastructure to allow engineers to move into remote provincial areas and villages, he said.
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