Sentence examples for raising road from inspiring English sources

Politicians are considering several painful measures, including raising road tolls and reducing drug benefits for affluent senior citizens.

Some £5bn is being invested to electrify the track between Bristol and Cardiff, which involves major work such as raising road bridges.

The Conservative MP said the government had already started to look at the possibility of raising roads.

"We should be looking for greater resilience - perhaps by re-routing transport links, or making individual homes flood-proof, or maybe raising roads if that proves cost-effective".

The land behind will be reserved for commercial properties, with a raised road – another line of defence against tsunamis – situated in front of residential areas.

In the project, we investigated what possibilities there are for new combinations in infrastructure and in-vehicle systems in order to raise road safety.

This paper presents a formulation for a passive road-rail crossing involving stiffened edges of the raised road pavement to minimise the risk of failure of wheel rail contact using a nonlinear three-dimensional multibody dynamics model.

Under heavy fire the North Korean attack was broken up, with many of the survivors attempting to take cover behind the raised road.

Miami Beach is spending $400m to raise roads and install pumps to drain streets that experience regularly flooding at high-tide – and to prevent salt water from contaminating fresh water storage inland.

The costs of the plan could go up by another £200m to raise roads and railway lines in other major projects, but further investigation work is needed before this sum is confirmed.

Summer raised roads were built up by using two horse scrapers digging an area alongside the highway, then using the loose dirt to widen the highway.