A classic product of Pakistan's patronage-driven politics, Mr. Bilour, 73, faced regular accusations of cronyism, using railway resources — money, land and jobs — to look after his own supporters.
Maintenance conducted by the Swedish Transportation Authority (TrV) is necessary to support railway resources and facilities [3, 7].
Access to lead-zinc deposits near Great Slave Lake brought a "railway to resources" at Hay River in the Northwest Territory.
And most of the ministers who preceded her have funneled the railways' limited resources into subsidies for passengers at the expense of freight service.
The Asian Development Bank has earmarked $20m this year as budget support, and another $59m to "support development of the private sector, railways and water resources, and to help strengthen the investment climate," the ADB said in January.
But southern Xinjiang is now less remote, and the state's security apparatus has been able to crack down more harshly on "splittism .Besides, the same roads and railways that take natural resources out also bring Han migrants in.
At the end of this first phase of the war, the Nationalist government had lost the best of its modern armies, its air force and arsenals, most of China's modern industries and railways, its major tax resources, and all the ports through which military equipment and civilian supplies might be imported.
Obviously, the criticality classes defined in Table 3 can vary depending on the type of rolling stock, available maintenance resources, safety standards, railway operations, traffic density, train speed, etc.
In order to better make use of scarce resources and plan railway track and associated drainage maintenance rationally it would be helpful to better understand and quantify the relationships between the causes of poor subgrade and the railway track drainage system.
China has wooed countries like South Africa, Ghana and Kenya by building ports and railways, because what it lacks in resources it makes up for in infrastructure expertise and surplus labor.
The 1924 Progressives pledged a "housecleaning" of executive departments, public control of natural resources, public ownership of railways, and tax reduction.
