Sentence examples for street widening from inspiring English sources

You can reduce it, maybe by paying for a street widening project or some such, but that's small beer.

Voters are seething with fury against the failed "establishment" – whether that establishment is Wall Street, widening inequality and billionaires buying influence, or a "left-wing" President, immigration and the inability of political classes to protect ordinary people.

In addition to infrastructural improvements, a street widening programme, the construction of a massive urban park (Parque Ibirapuera) and other beautification projects, the main feature of São Paulo's urban renewal was its modernist skyscrapers.

THE raw stretch of Houston Street between Lafayette and the Avenue of the Americas is a sort of Times Square of open space, strewn with giant advertising signs, that was left over from subway construction in the 30's and a brutal street widening two decades later.

Today, after months of hearing a growing clamor from the Flamingo's supporters, Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham announced that he would spare the wrecking ball and allow the 24-hour diner to stay where it has spent the last 35 years, rather than razing it for a street widening.

Marlatt is also working to protect a huge, 200-year-old-plus oak on her property from a possible street widening.

East of the interchange, Genesee Street widens to six lanes (three in each direction) as it heads along a commercial strip anchored by a large plaza featuring a Wegmans Food Markets store.

Walking east, the streets widen and the buildings become larger and newer.

Since the 17th century the city's original street pattern has been reworked and streets widened.

The city spent $190 million more to repave streets, widen sidewalks and add parks.

The modernization of Tabrīz has quickened since World War II, with streets widened, buildings erected, and public gardens laid out with fountains and pools.