Sentences with phrase «city used vehicles»

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«So we have an inner city message in terms of... how do we lessen pollution and CO2 in... city environments, and how do we use electric vehicles and e-mobility to be able to do that?»

On Tuesday, city Supervisor Norman Yee proposed legislation that would prohibit the use of autonomous vehicles to deliver food or other products, according to tech news site Recode.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

He added, «we definitely have to, in the future, think about a model where we're using this cloud structure and these smart vehicles to improve [congestion and capacity issues in big cities].»

Uber spokesperson Chelsea Kohler told USA TODAY that the vehicles, whose number remains unspecified, are «for internal use only, have a safety driver up front and are not part of our ride - sharing service in the city.»

A panel at the recent 10th annual Walkers Fundamentals Hedge Fund Seminar hosted by Walkers Global in New York City addressed, among other things, investor sentiment; developments and trends in the use of independent directors, side letters, fund structures and investment vehicles; and fund restructurings.

Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self - driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the slow speeds and relatively predictable environment of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose of autonomous vehicles.

We skipped renting a vehicle and opted to walk or use public transportation (shuttle buses, SkyTrain, and the Hop - On Hop - Off Vancouver Trolley) to get around the city.

Hundreds of proud citizens wearing forest green, touring all the city «s parks on horseback and all - terrain vehicles, using police powers and good will as part of a giant public relations initiative for the Chicago Park District and its beleaguered chief executive, Jesse Madison.

One of the main things is that we save a lot of money through our other lifestyle choices, like using cloth diapers, breastfeeding, having only one vehicle (which we only use to go grocery shopping in the city every two weeks or to visit family).

Four NYC workers punished for ethics violations include a vehicle - fleet manager who admitted using an agency car to drive his mom to a Pier 1 Imports store in Freeport on Black Friday to shop for a chair, according to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

Embattled NYC Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, already under attack for his personal use of a city vehicle, told the NYC Council that senior correction officials had «inadvertently» conducted surveillance of the city agency that investigates fraud and corruption.

«The Department is committed to complying with all recommendations on how to improve its compliance with City rules and regulations governing vehicle use and we consider this matter closed.»

Ponte has excused his use of the city - issued car by saying he was given wrong guidance about the rules of personal vehicle use.

Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte told the City Council Monday he had simply «misunderstood» the city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal City Council Monday he had simply «misunderstood» the city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal use.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

James will give a talk about her role in city government and how she uses the law as a vehicle for social justice and change.

The metro mayor should use their direct mandate to enact the most effective, long - term sustainable and economically and socially beneficial policy — a Clean Air Charge (similar to London's Toxicity Charge) on more polluting vehicles entering the most congested and polluted parts of the city region.

Mayor de Blasio is the city's only top elected New York official who has declined to reimburse taxpayers for his personal and political use of city vehicles — including an NYPD - helicopter trip to last month's presidential debate on Long Island, The Post has learned.

State officials have criticized Syracuse mayors, including Miner, for using the urban renewal agency as a vehicle to hire city employees.

The scandal over whether Eliot Spitzer's office improperly used the State Police to produce damaging evidence that former State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno improperly used state - owned vehicles (cars and aircraft) to travel from upstate to New York City on trips that included both state business and politicking?

«But I don't think it would be a vehicle that we would use in our course of conduct as public safety officials in the city.»

The mayor is the city's only top elected New York official who has declined to reimburse taxpayers for his personal and political use of city vehicles — including an NYPD - helicopter trip to last month's presidential debate on Long Island.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has stopped the city from paying the former correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, $ 24,000 in compensation for unused vacation days, citing the possibility of further investigations related to his improper use of city vehicles, his office said.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Under this legislation it will be illegal to operate any motorized device within New York City that is incapable of being registered with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicle, unless the motor vehicle is a wheelchair or other mobility aids designed for use by the disabled,» Quinn said at a press conference at CitVehicle, unless the motor vehicle is a wheelchair or other mobility aids designed for use by the disabled,» Quinn said at a press conference at Citvehicle is a wheelchair or other mobility aids designed for use by the disabled,» Quinn said at a press conference at City Hall.

The City Council voted in two bills to strengthen a ban on so - called «e-bikes,» by tossing out the part of the law that allowed the vehicles to be used as long as they were not going faster than 15 miles per hour, Quinn said.

Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trCity Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trcity's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trcity vehicles for personal trips.

Buses were the focus of questions on transport, due to declining numbers on local services and the high number of people in the city region using private vehicles.

Unwilling to allow Ravi to be taken away, City Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Jumaane Williams, and dozens of others used civil disobedience to block the departure of the vehicle.

She became one of the several politicians to call on the mayor to fire Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte for using a city vehicle for personal travel.

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Just last month, Department of Environmental Protection electrical engineer Magdy Youssef was forced to resign after he used a city - issued vehicle to run personal errands and commute home 19 times over four months in 2016.

A «multi-million dollar» cocaine - distribution ring, which allegedly ferried about four kilos of cocaine a week using hidden compartments in vehicles traveling from New York City to Riverhead, has been busted by the East End Drug Task Force, said Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota.

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Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

The city comptroller's office has stopped the city from paying the former correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, $ 24,000 in compensation for unused vacation days, citing the possibility of further investigations related to his improper use of city vehicles, his office said on Tuesday.

Unlike traditional traffic models, which used equations to describe moving vehicles en masse as a kind of fluid, Transims modeled each vehicle and driver as an agent moving through a city's road network.

How some cities around the world have used congestion pricing to cut vehicle traffic and promote mass transit

«We want to check whether electric goods vehicles in the city can contribute to improved air quality, and whether we can facilitate the routing and transhipment of goods so as to avoid using large diesel vehicles in the city centre.»

With pollution from particulate matter at potentially lethal levels early last December, city officials took a drastic step: they announced that they would temporarily restrict the use of private vehicles by allowing owners to drive only on alternate days, based on the sequence of their number plates.

Cars will still be needed in the future for intercity travel, but if cities are to address their escalating emissions, they need to put policies in place that curb vehicle use and improve vehicle fuel efficiency, he added.

Explore the heights of a futuristic city, race through the streets in a transforming vehicle, and use your powerful abilities to stop a ruthless criminal empire.

Sugar is a wicked companion piece to Aronofsky's The Wrestler, both of them using sports as the means through which Billy Wilder protagonists seek entrance to the city on the hill — only to find that their vehicle may also be their yoke.

Lady Bird explores the plurality of this relationship from the first scene where tight - laced mother and liberal - leaning daughter share a tear over an audio book of «The Grapes of Wrath» before getting into an argument over culture and city college and jail, which leads Lady Bird, a nickname Marion uses mostly with distain, to chuck herself from the moving vehicle.

You can use your vehicle to move to different locations, and there are a set number of «random» crimes that occur in the city (which involve shootouts and chasing perpetrators), but there's nothing on the level of Grand Theft Auto to complete within the city.

Those of you who are unfamiliar with LEGO City Undercover will want to check out a new vehicles trailer that features both traditional and anything but rides that Chase McCain gets to use throughout the game's course.

When playing 2.0 you'll traverse New York City using a variety of vehicles while also engaging in combat, platforming, and puzzle - solving.

His first was The Cars that Ate Paris, a black comedy about an outback community using tricked - out murder vehicles to off tourists from the city — five years before George Miller would tread similar territory with Mad Max.

But as a European - style plug - in hybrid, this is probably enough because you're meant to motor through your neighborhood in electric - only mode, use the gas engine to drive to the city, and then engage electric - only power to navigate the inner city where gas - powered vehicles might be prohibited.