Mike Lewis, direct of the RI Department of Transportation, told people to stay off the roads, especially off the high Newport and Jamestown bridges.

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It's replacing a bridge built when Franklin Roosevelt was president on what the Missouri Department of Transportation says is the most direct link between Missouri's capitol, Jefferson City, and a large U.S. Army installation, Fort Leonard Wood.

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The most important direct effect of tacocopters will be to reduce transportation costs.

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They were the direct result of heavy and misguided government regulations on the production and transportation of fuels and on the implementation of energy-related projects.

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Category one refers to the direct Olympic budget, covering costs like the athlete's village, transportation and the opening ceremonies.

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In recent years this program, which provides direct loans, loan guarantees, and lines of credit to regionally or nationally significant transportation projects, has helped mayors leverage four times the money invested in it by the federal government, helping construction workers get on the job quicker, and repaying taxpayers their hard-earned money faster.

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