Sentence examples for neglected highways from inspiring English sources

"I watched in utter frustration as our transportation funds were poured into overpriced mass transit systems at the expense of our long neglected highways," said state Sen. Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks), vice chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee.

The scene at Clove Lakes Park was quite different from the neglected, highway-beleaguered woods in Queens.

The results indicate that travel-time cost, which is often neglected by highway agencies in selecting alignments, significantly affects the alignment optimization.

Protocol forgotten, many were faded and neglected, finally littering highways as Old Glory was paraded off into another war.

But state officials hope the sight of construction crews on long-neglected highways and roads will compensate for pain in the pocketbook.

He traces the changes brought on by stagecoach, trolley, bicycle, reminding us that robust railroads led to the neglect of highways, until the automobile enabled the highways' revenge.

He pushed grand infrastructure projects, like a national highway system, but largely neglected social programs like education and health.

"When dollars are so scarce, we need to be sure we're not building highways that aren't really needed — especially if doing so means neglecting repairs of existing highways, and neglecting to build transit projects when transit ridership is soaring," Mr. Baxandall said Kenneth Orski, a transportation consultant, offered a skeptical view of the permanence of the driving trend.

Next I'd like to do the unusual and unique -- explore the highways and byways I've neglected.

Most Senegalese work in the country's fields and farms, yet it still imports most of its food, partly because Mr. Wade has neglected agriculture in favor of spending on new highways and a modern airport, among other things.

Until recently, most of the waterfront was neglected or industrialized — a place for breweries, tanneries, hospitals, highways, and power plants.