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Transportation Grants Help Create 880 Jobs In Metro Detroit

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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has awarded state Transportation Economic Development Fund (TEDF) Category A grants totaling more than $2.7 These road infrastructure projects were significant factors in two companies’ recent decisions to locate at the I-94 industrial park. Credit: Medioimages/Photodisc.

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Is PFI about to be reborn?

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It is increasingly obvious, as we have said before in CL , that the government’s ambitious £600 billion National Infrastructure Pipeline is unlikely to be deliverable without the use of private funding. In London, Transport for London (TfL) has said it may increasingly turn to private finance to pay for future infrastructure schemes.

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Smart Planning Boosts Seattle To #1 City For Pedestrians

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Liberty Mutual Insurance releases pedestrian safety index with top 15 safest U.S. Archives Articles By Location Articles By Topic Daily News Featured Post Online Features Quality Of Life Transportation Infrastructure U.S. - cities for pedestrians.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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INSURANCE |. Did you know that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has graded our infrastructure sectors with mostly Ds? invest only $85 billion annually in our transportation infrastructure. Tags: construction , infrastructure , legislation. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |.

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Travelers Companies, Inc. Announces Data Center In Sarpy County, NE

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a leading property casualty insurer, is the latest to announce plans to build a new data center in Sarpy County, NE, joining Fidelity, Yahoo!, The company wanted a location near significant infrastructure that would offer competitive utility costs, and a real estate market that could accommodate future growth and expansion needs.

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After Sandy: New Report Looks At Mitigating Climate Change Through Land Use

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Candid insights and observations from these experts formed the basis for After Sandy , a comprehensive, practical set of 23 recommendations focused on four areas—land use and development; infrastructure, technology and capacity; finance, investment and insurance; and leadership and governance.

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Traveller letters: Why should we pay 50 per cent more to have middle seats kept empty?

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I believe airlines have the necessary infrastructure to add filters, and perhaps did so in the past, but in a similar vein to removing a strawberry from first class salads saving Delta around $200,000 a year, the filters are no longer in use due to cost saving measures. However, I’m not finding that to be the case with travel insurance.

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