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  • I took part in the campaign to try to save 371 repairable homes in the Edge Lane district, from a road-widening scheme connecting the city centre with the M62.

    How all politicians have made a mess of my beloved Merseyside | Alexei Sayle 2012

  • A listing in the register would mean that any future state-funded or federal project that might change the district, such as a road-widening project, would be subject to additional review, Berger said.

    Upper Marlboro considers historical status Zoe Tillman 2010

  • The Cross Base Highway, road-widening projects, etc.etc. mean forcing a heckuva lotta low-density gridlock-styled change on future generations of residents.

    PSRC Plan Avoids Climate Reality « PubliCola 2010

  • As Crawford details, Parliamentary enclosure (unlike earlier, less formal versions of the process) was often carried out by scientific surveys and road-widening projects that all aimed to decrease the number of workers needed for farming or animal husbandry, to curtail the independence of laborers, and to move goods to market efficiently.

    Joanna Baillie’s Ecotopian Comedies 2008

  • Shortly after passing that outpost saguaro, she ran into a road-widening project.

    TRIAL BY FIRE J.A. JANCE 2009

  • The changes morphed the earmark's purpose from being a general road-widening project to benefiting one specific interchange, Letourneau said.

    Alaska congressman ♥s Florida Sinfonian 2007

  • The changes morphed the earmark's purpose from being a general road-widening project to benefiting one specific interchange, Letourneau said.

    Archive 2007-08-12 Sinfonian 2007

  • At the same time, the Nottingham Corporation have ignored international protests, and decided to go ahead with their claim to demolish the Foundation's headquarters, in order to complete a road-widening scheme which would facilitate the passage of juggernaut lorries to a new industrial estate.

    Double Assault Russell, Edith 1975

  • Coopersburg's Route 309 corridor, Tony Caciolo was eagerly looking forward to October and the end of the massive road-widening project that has snarled traffic in the area since early

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • Coopersburg's Route 309 corridor, Tony Caciolo was eagerly looking forward to October and the end of the massive road-widening project that has snarled traffic in the area since early

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

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