Royal Assembly approves funding for the National Infrastructure Redevelopment
and Modernization Initiative (NIRMI)August 4684
Eroncourt, Joviant
Avenue des Rois Highway in southern EroncourtEroncourt, Joviant: This afternoon, the Royal Assembly approved a massive spending bill aimed at redeveloping and
modernizing the nation's infrastructure after almost 25 years after the government's first attempt. The bill, passed
by all members, calls for a total of 350 Billion Francs to be spent over 15 years into the nation's schools, universities,
government-owned buildings, the nation's highways, airports, and subway systems. The Royal Assembly has begun to
allocate funds in the city's largest cities. Over 150 million dollars have been put in place to modernize primary and
secondary schools within the Valois-Coruma Metropolitan area. Schools will all receive major upgrades to crumbling
building and over populated schools. Primary schools, especially in Valois will begin to shift their focus to teaching
students with technological appliances such as new computers and educational tablets. Public universities and colleges
will also receive funding from the NIRMI spending bill. Universities and colleges will be able to add more courses and
enhance their current courses already available to students. Cielfsoft, one of Lourenne's tech giants has already held
talks with many of the nation's universities and colleges to provide computer science and technological engineering
courses for students to take. Universities will also receive funding to modernize their campuses and public buildings.
Another major aspect of the new NIRMI proposal is the modernization of the nation's highways.The bill allocates more
than 200 million dollars for redeveloping highways in Eroncourt, Valois, Thiers, Meridia, Parmentier, and St.Herbert.
Highways in areas of heavy traffic will be expanded to lower traffic during rush hours in the morning and evenings.
Roads, boulevards, and streets in major cities will be repaved and slightly expanded to allow more space for parking
vehicles and residential crosswalks. Local governments within each region will choose which roads will receive the
funding from the NIRMI bill. Roads which have been damaged due to weather will receive priority. It is expected that
hundreds of jobs will be created in the construction sector which has seen a 15% decrease in job creation in the past
5 years. Airports in the nation will also receive funding to modernize their services. Terminals within the airports in
Valois, Parmentier, and Eroncourt will receive new informational kiosks, updated software for flight information, and
new interior designs. It is expected that the airports in construction will receive delays, however, flights will be re
directed to other nearby airports to reduce congestion. Finally, subways and trains system in metro areas will be
upgraded as well as the trains and carriages within the system. The Lourennais Transportation Authority recently
completed a project where 44 of its trains were upgraded to the newest safety and technological standards. However
that project was focused in Valois. The new NIRMI spending will focus on all trains in Eroncourt, Valois, Meridia, Delaune,
Parmentier, Amoudry, and Liroux. The Lourennais Transportation authority will also receive help from the Lourennais
private sector which has already pledged it services to help modernize aspects of the transportation sector. The NIRMI
project will focus on completely modernizing most of Lourenne's infrastructure. The real focus, according to the Royal
Assembly, was to send Lourenne into a new age where technology and the sciences dominate society. Technology, which
is Lourenne's largest sector, will dominate Lourenne's markets once the NIRMI project is complete and all of the nation's
residents will be exposed to the newest innovative products the country has to offer in the public sphere.
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