Increase in Transportation Funding Urged
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State and local officials warned yesterday that without increases in money for road projects, the planned expansion of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda will result in "nightmare" congestion near the hospital.
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Ministers are set to announce billions of pounds to remove bottlenecks and increase capacity on the railways.
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An unexpected $10 million congressional earmark might seem like money from heaven for a fast-growing county needing billions for transportation improvements. Not when it comes to Coconut Road.
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Governors from both parties appealed yesterday for the Bush administration and Congress to provide more money for a health-care program that insures millions of children.
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MPs urge private finance initiative bosses to get "street wise" over the amounts they are charged for work.
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By Michael Sluss and Mason Adams The Roanoke Times mike.sluss@roanoke.com (804) 697-1585 mason.adams@roanoke.com (804) 697-1584  RICHMOND -- A white-hot debate over transportation funding may have  sucked much of the oxygen from the 2007 General Assembly session.
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Let me get this straight: The MBTA wants to raise fares -- again -- in January. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has a toll increase scheduled for the next year, and then as far as the eye can see after that. And all those fortysomething MBTA retirees are still paying nothing -- as in zero -- for their healthcare? On the ...
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In what Governor Mitt Romney hopes will be a regulatory swan song, Massachusetts officials yesterday began hearing testimony on rate increases sought by the state's automobile insurers and agents that would boost the average premium of drivers next year by 9.3 percent, to $1,183.
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Governors from both parties appealed Sunday for the Bush administration and Congress to provide more money &#151; now and over the long term &#151; for a health care program that insures millions of children.
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Environmentalists call for congestion charging to be considered to tackle Scotland's transport problems.
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.
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A new report from the state comptroller urges the M.T.A. to hold off on raising tolls and fares until the fate of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal is clearer.
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Car-users should be charged to use roads to help pay for upgrades, a business organisation claims.
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President Bush proposed increasing the Energy Department budget to $24.3 billion, up nearly 7 percent from the $22.8 billion current appropriation.
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Government-intelligence firm Input says state and local spending on transportation IT systems should rise from $1.8 billion in fiscal 2005 to $2.
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The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, proposes a Â£3 hike to the congestion charge.
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Gov. Jim Doyle proposes taxing big oil companies more than $270 million over the next two years to help pay for the state's transportation needs.