Sentence examples for transportation standoff from inspiring English sources
In part, the transportation standoff has seemed stuck on a broader debate about how best to fund road and highway repairs in an era where gas tax revenues are dwindling because of increasingly fuel-efficient vehicles.
"This bridge is the No. 1 priority not only for commuters but for Main Street from Maine to Miami," said Shirley J. Ybarra, Virginia's transportation secretary, as the project hit a bistate standoff.
With that in mind, transportation specialists in both states are trying to engineer a way around the current standoff.
The ride is ostensibly a demonstration to promote using a means of transportation other than cars, but it has led to an increasingly tense series of standoffs with the police.
Until Mr. Hastert's announcement, the standoff over the highway measure had threatened to force the temporary layoff of thousands of federal transportation workers whose salaries were dependent on passage of the bill by Sunday.
A political standoff erupted.
