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TALLAHASSEE When Louise Terry glanced outside her Southwinds at the Moorings home early last summer, landscapers looked like they were planting trees on top of trees along State Road A1A in Vero Beach.

She watched workers shove palm trees in between, under or atop plants the neighborhood already grew.

That was the first Terry heard her area along A1A would get additional shrubbery and state taxpayers would foot the bill. The well-groomed stretch already was lined with vegetation and trees maintained by high-end neighborhoods like Southwinds. But in a $1.58 million Florida Department of Transportation resurfacing project for 5.4 miles of A1A, $100,000 worth of new trees and plants were due to spring up.

"We went out one morning and they were planting trees, and said they couldn't stop," said Terry, president of Southwinds homeowners association. "They came and planted more on top of what's already there, and it just looked crazy."

After hearing from A1A residents about the now-complete project, state Rep. Debbie Mayfield set out to curb potentially frivolous landscaping projects this legislative session. The Vero Beach Republican slipped a provision into a bigger transportation bill to keep FDOT from spending taxpayer money on landscaping during simple resurfacing projects. In HB 1399, the only exception would be if top FDOT officials signed off on additional plants or trees.

"That'll hopefully help avoid what happened on A1A," Mayfield said.

The way Florida law reads, FDOT needs to spend at least 1.5 percent of its total construction project dollars on foliage. In 2011-12, landscaping will cost FDOT $41.8 million statewide 1.86 percent of what's contracted for construction projects this budget year. The A1A landscaping, though, made up less than 1 percent of that project's entire cost.

Mayfield's co-sponsored bill would require 1.5 percent of all contracts for significant enhancement projects not basic paving jobs to go toward landscaping.

The House measure and a similar Senate companion, SB 1866, are ready for floor votes, but haven't made it on the schedule yet. The two bills proposed a bevy of transportation changes and have to match before passing by session's end on March 9. The proposal then would need the governor's signature.

The Vero Beach chunk of A1A got $100,000 worth of live oak, sabal palm, saw palmetto, dwarf holly, beach sunflower, crepe myrtle and fakahatchee grass. Both the city of Vero Beach and Indian River County signed off on the project, said Barbara Kelleher, FDOT spokeswoman.

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New Delhi, Feb 29 : The government will consult the law ministry on the notice sent to it by the Russian conglomerate Sistema threatening international arbitration proceedings if the government failed to resolve the issue of revocation of its licences within six months.

"Obviously every party involved, including the government, has the right to look at whatever the legal options are available to them. We do seek the opinion of the law ministry," R. Chandrashekhar, secretary DoT, told reporters at an event here Wednesday.

Sistema, which holds 56.68 percent stake in Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), has invested $3.1 billion in the country and stands to lose 21 licences following the Supreme Court's verdict earlier this month quashing 122 licences issued in 2008 for 2G spectrum services.

The firm has sent a formal letter through its legal counsel to the Indian government proposing to settle the dispute in an amicable way within six months.

While the letter has been sent to three Indian ministries -- Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, a copy of it has also been sent to the Indian Embassy in Moscow.

According to Sistema, under the bilateral investment treaty, the Indian government is obliged to promote and protect foreign investments, including treating the investments in a fair and equitable way.

"We have always maintained that all our investors including Sistema JSFC and Rosimushestvo, the Russian Federal Agency for State Property Management, are being penalized for acting in good faith and in reliance on the appropriateness of the procedures established by Indias telecommunications authorities," Vsevolod Rozanov, president and chief executive officer, SSTL said in a statement Tuesday.

"To protect its business, the company also plans to contest the Supreme court order by filing a review petition within this week before the highest court of the land," he added.

SSTL has over 15 million customers and employs over 3,500 people. (IANS)

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Raleigh, N.C. The state Department of Transportation gave the public one last opportunity Monday to speak out about aplan to collect tolls along Interstate 95 to pay for highway improvements.

About 200 people turned out for the final public meeting about the tolls at a Fayetteville hotel, 10 days after the Federal Highway Administration gave the plan conditional approval. Many asked that the state find other ways to fund road improvements, but the DOT said the sta has to maintain more roads with less money.

North Carolina, which is one of three states participating in a pilot project allowing tolling on existing interstates, consistently ranks in the top two states for the number of roads it manages. It also ranks near the bottom nationally in dollars spent per mile of highway.

Still, Chuck Fager, of Fayetteville, said he worries that tolls would scare business away from the I-95 corridor.

"It will make this region much less attractive to new businesses and employers," Fager said. "It will be an economic setback to the region."

Fager mapped the alternatives to the highway's path through North Carolina online.

"From border to border, it's three hours," he said. "If you take 301, it would take five hours."

Even if people do choose to take different routes, he said, tolls will still affect everyone.

"Most everything we buy will be coming by truck, and the heavy cost of the tolls will be passed on (to consumers)," Fager said.

Musheerah Ali, of Lumberton, drives on I-95 every day to get to Fayetteville for work and said she doesn't support tolling.

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Patti Sapone/The Star-LedgerThe Victory Bridge connected Perth Amboy to Sayreville has been the scene of 22 suicide attempts in the past eight years.

PERTH AMBOY — Perth Amboy officials are asking the state Department of Transportation to install barriers on the Victory Bridge after a recent suicide attempt, according to a report on MyCentralJersey.com.

Twenty-two people have attempted to kill themselves by jumping off the 110-foot structure since it was opened in 2004, the report said. The Perth Amboy city council passed a resolution last week to urge Gov. Chris Christie and the Legislature to build a protective fence, which would cost an estimated $2 million.

The Route 35 bridge connecting Perth Amboy to Sayreville features four suicide helpline signs, in English and Spanish, which are the first of their kind on any state bridges, according to the report.

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• Perth Amboy police rescue man who jumped off bridge into Raritan River

• Rahway man killed in plunge from Perth Amboy bridge

• N.J. looks to prevent Victory Bridge suicides

• Signs aim to deter suicides on Victory Bridge

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