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The current executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has made it clear that he would not have proceeded with such a huge undertaking in Manhattan.
Mr. Sanders said his meeting with seven or eight residents of Flint, Mich., to talk about the water crisis, “was one of the more difficult meetings that I have ever attended in a long political life.”
Under a “Northern Powerhouse” plan, the government has pledged to build more roads and railways, invest in technology and research hubs, and even appeal to China’s development bank for funds.
The country has invested far too little in its public works, as governments at all levels have become obsessed with cutting spending.
In developing countries, rapid urbanisation has led to an increase in the demand for transport, aggravating problems of pollution, congestion and accidents. Increasing public transport availability is one way of addressing these problems. In the Indian city of Kolkata, buses cater to a large number of people in the metropolitan area and are run by private operators as well as by the state government. Corporations owned by the state, known as state transport undertakings, operate buses.
Water resources infrastructure ranges from educational and research infrastructure, storage works (surface and underground), hydrological and meteorological stations, irrigation systems, to water infrastructure for eco-tourism. This water resources infrastructure serves the mining, agricultural, urban and rural water needs, the environment, amongst a host of other needs and demands.
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