Sentences with phrase «cities cycle instead»

Environmental considerations are important in the Danish way of life — many Danes living in cities cycle instead of using their car, for instance.

Like any hybrid, the electric motor assist is why it's rated better on the city cycle instead of highway, and naturally, higher speed cruising will burn the most gasoline.

Not exact matches

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.

This untitled pyramid though is hardly a marker of a glorious past, reminding one instead, of the ever growing heaps of thoughtlessly disposed garbage, generated by a vicious cycle of consumerism that plagues our towns and cities.

(see map here) Because of the safety and the weather protection, people afraid of city cycling might do it instead of driving.

They also say the proposal could turn the state's water cycle — from well to city supply and back — into a one - way street should utilities and other big users sell their wastewater instead of returning it to the environment.

TreeHugger promotes cycling as perhaps the best way to get around a city, but how many serious door prizes and deaths is it going to take before they make the city safe for cyclists, instead of forcing us into a two foot wide space between streetcar tracks and parked cars filled with people who don't know how to use a mirror?