Since 2002, Longyearbyen Community Council has had many of the same responsibilities of a municipality, including utilities, education, cultural facilities, fire department, roads and ports.
The project has to be signed off by the water department, the road department, the pollution control board.
The University of Cambridge's engineering department contributed road network datasets from the late 18th century to today.
In other cases, the department arranged road tests for candidates who lacked driver's licenses, which are a requirement.
9 p.m. 2. Stargazing In Hanover, N.H., 13 miles away, Dartmouth College's astronomy department (Observatory Road, 603-646-9100) offers free guided glimpses of the heavens on Friday nights from 8 to 11 (and also on Sundays from noon to 2 p.m., when solar activity can be seen through safe filters) most weeks of the academic year.
AS last winter ground to a halt, Joseph J. Nicoletti Jr., the public works commissioner in White Plains, took stock of his department's road salt supplies and budgeted for what he expected would be a jump in the price, to $60 a ton, from $45.
The city's transport department said roads in those areas were closed.
She also called on National Treasury to restrict On-Point nationally from doing business and for the Limpopo department of Roads and Transport to begin disciplinary proceedings.
This week an investigation into the contracts awarded by the Limpopo department of roads and transport to On-Point Engineering, Malema's alleged cash cow, found that the department's actions were "unlawful, improper" and constituted "maladministration".
There is no public works department fixing roads in northern Afghanistan, where the asphalt is buckled by the weight of armored columns, littered with debris or cratered from the impact of bombs.
We have departments of roads and forestry in Afghanistan, these exist in theory and are supposed to be responsible, but I have never seen them.
