Sentence examples for transport spending from inspiring English sources

"The white paper on supplementary business rates (SBR), published alongside today's statements, indicates that the government wants to tax businesses further to bridge the gap in transport spending.

Coyness about northern cities is unsurprising (London's transport chief ready to defend capital spending, 23 July), for different economic models apply to transport spending elsewhere.

The Yorkshire PTEs calculate that an extra £7.70 a head in government transport spending over five years, rather than the current reduction from £285 to £276 a head, would pay for these projects.

And the plan contradicts a report in 2007 by Sir Rod Eddington, a former boss of British Airways, which was meant to lay down the rules for transport spending for decades to come.

Raising the petrol tax is political poison, so Congress has hit upon a drearily predictable solution: to take the money from somewhere else.This is not new: between 2008 and 2010 Congress transferred $34.5 billion from the general fund into the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), which collects federal petrol taxes and funds transport spending.

It also says that there is not enough transport spending.

To make this happen, we need 5% of the government's transport spend allocated to cycling.

For every £100 spent on staff costs, the Department for Transport spends £70 on consultants, a very high proportion compared with HM Revenue and Customs, which spends only £2.

The letter asks the government to commit 5% of its transport spend to cycling, and to improve law enforcement to better protect cyclists.

A lot of the capital and operational transport spend on the London 2012 Games was designed to have very broad economic, social and health benefits and leave behind a broad legacy that classic transport planning would not have led to.

Mike Brown, commissioner of transport for Transport for London, recalled how this not only created the opportunity to firm up strategic thinking and create a co-ordinated approach for transport spend, but tasked the mayor with securing the investment required to make things happen.