Sentences with phrase «from city sidewalks»

In Binette v. Salmon Arm (City), 2018 BCCA 150, the court upheld the verdict of the trial judge finding the city liable to the plaintiff in negligence in circumstances where the plaintiff tripped over a protruding piece of metal from a city sidewalk.

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Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet, recently applied to develop a 12 - acre parcel of land downtown, promising a brand - new high - tech city «from the Internet up,» deciding against U.S. candidates like Detroit and Denver.

The city attorney's office has given these startups until April 30 to provide a written report showing that they have taken steps to stop users from illegally riding and parking scooters on sidewalks.

People have claimed on Twitter that these startups set out to disrupt transportation, but they acted without sufficient input from the city or the people who have to share San Francisco's streets and sidewalks.

«Waterfront Toronto's refusal, for what it says are «commercial reasons,» to release the text of the preliminary «agreement to agree» it signed in the fall with Sidewalk has led to accusations of excessive secrecy,» reports The Globe and Mail, which also notes that «despite briefings from Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk executives, some city councilors say they still have little idea what Sidewalk actually intends to do — or where.»

In October, Waterfront Toronto announced it had chosen Sidewalk Labs to present a plan to design a brand new area of the city from scratch, with innovative technologies and infrastructure that's expected to include roads designed for driverless cars.

Usually, if we see someone navigating a wheelchair on the sidewalks of our cities or towns, that someone is paraplegic, which means that the person is paralyzed from the waist down.

«After many years of frustration resulting from the inaction and lack of a sense of urgency on the part of city agencies on the sidewalk issue, we turned to the State to ask for help, and to their credit they responded in a big way,» Borough President James Oddo said in a statement.

As a homeowner, he said he would be willing to pay a little extra to have the city clear snow from the sidewalks.

ALBANY — If Assemblyman Micah Kellner has his way, someone carrying a plastic bag full of groceries would get the same disdainful looks that might be directed at a pregnant lady smoking, or someone walking away from the stinky contribution their pooch has made to a New York City sidewalk.

Corey Driscoll Dunham, Syracuse's director of operations, said the feedback from the city's snow safety summit shows people want the city to take a more active role in sidewalk snow removal and they said they are willing to pay a fee for it.

The City of Saratoga Springs has updated its controversial «sit / lie» law that prevents individuals from obstructing a public sidewalk.

The work ranges from renovations to city facilities and sports venues to street and sidewalk paving projects.

Bey and Common Council President Helen Hudson developed a proposal for snow removal after visiting Rochester to see how that city removed snow from its sidewalks.

It was late Tuesday afternoon, primary day, in Brooklyn, and amidst the rattle of the subway and wafting aroma of a not - far - off Popeyes fried chicken restaurant, Alicka Ampry - Samuel danced on the sidewalk with Corey Johnson, a current City Council member from Manhattan, to «Ain't No Stoppin Us Now.»

If nobody complains, sidewalks can go years - or decades - without attention from the city.

A sidewalk condemnation notice from the city can be a financial shock for property owners, many of whom do not plan for the expense.

The used cigarette butts littering your city's sidewalks could serve as an energy storage material for anything from smartphones to wind turbines.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

From there waste is trucked to cities in mainland China, where electronic parts may be burned off of old circuit boards, washed in a river and dried on city sidewalks.

With the bustling of cars, pollution in the air, and irate individuals inhabiting the city, I can understand why I usually try to block out the outside world when I run, but this time, let into the moment of jogging down the street, I began to see a new vision: crisp air caused a puffy cloud to form with each exhale, and with the drifting leaves on the sidewalk, I began to perceive the beautiful birds sweeping through the city, people - watching from the trees.

From skate parks to city sidewalks, these chic metallic sneakers are made to be worn.

(One of them featured an XQ «astronaut,» played by The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams, striding toward the camera, Right Stuff — style, then talking to viewers from the middle of a busy New York City sidewalk, reminding them of the 1960s moon race and asserting, «We need to talk about high school.»)

It included how well the schools work with other city agencies (to get sidewalks plowed in the winter, for example), how many and which colleges new teachers come from (the wider the net, the better), how quickly managers return phone calls, and whether teacher absenteeism is down.

«The DOT Smart City Challenge has inspired cities to shift away from operating in traditional agency silos and towards creating a coordinated, outcome - focused transportation system that reduces congestion and enhances transport equity,» says Anand Babu, COO of Sidewalk Labs.

A: If you're requesting a sidewalk to protect children on their way to and from school, the city may be willing to pay all costs.

In addition to the much needed infrastructure repair, this bond shifts the financial burden of sidewalk repair from the city's residents back to the city.

Street life on Abbot Kinney Last month, city inspectors banned tables and chairs from the sidewalks on Abbot Kinney Blvd. around California Avenue.

In the City of Light, the color white bounces through, from the rows of sidewalk cafés to the jewel - like Eiffel Tower once the orange sun sinks to the earth like a wino.

Niagara, Mark Bradford, 2005: A powerful media work by Bradford, Niagara is a video recording of a little over three minutes long, featuring a single tracking shot of a black man seen from the back walking down a city sidewalk.

Edward Hopper, often characterized as the quintessential New York artist, traveled away from the city every summer, leaving behind the heat and concrete sidewalks in favor of more pleasant climes and fresh subjects to paint outdoors.

Collaging ephemera collected from New York City sidewalks with Evans» own notes, the abstractions resemble dense, gestural almost - landscapes.

He spent his days sitting on the city sidewalks, where he drew scenes from both his memories of plantation life and the street life around him.

The video then pans down on the sidewalk of the city where a man is on his knees, and then from behind another man begins to beat him to death with a bat.

Although located in a private office building lobby, her 23» x 80» mural commissioned for the new Goldman Sachs tower in New York City (2010) is viewable from the sidewalk windows.

One of Goodnough's most striking works from this period, «Form in Motion,» is a large mural executed in 1967 for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust offices in Midtown Manhattan, its vigorous patches of color arrayed in an onrushing to - and - fro pattern suggestive of the pedestrian scrum on the city's sidewalks.

Having already begun to reclaim its sidewalks for pedestrians, the city of Amman, Jordan is setting out to reclaim its streets from traffic chaos.

NOAA specifies that each station be located far from exhaust fans, asphalt, sidewalks, heat - absorbing buildings, or cities.

Cigarette Litter Abatement Fee Ordinance Establishes a fee of $ 0.40 per pack of cigarettes sold in San Francisco to recover the cost of cigarette litter clean - up from city streets, sidewalks, and other public properties.

Materials such as sustainably - harvested timber and carbon «negative «cements could one day trap large volumes of carbon in our cities» skyscrapers, roads, and sidewalks, preventing that carbon from escaping back into the atmosphere for decades.

While some have expressed concerns about the lack of space, according to city staff, in older parts of Toronto where there may not be enough room, sidewalks with hydro poles are exempt from the rule.

Researchers explained that trees growing in the city benefit from sidewalks that trap heat, warming tree trunks during cold months.

She claims the Google Maps BlackBerry application told her to walk along a dangerous highway with no sidewalks to get from one Park City, Utah, address to another and, shocker, she was hit by a car while doing so.

[1] This is an appeal from a summary trial judgment that found the City of Salmon Arm («City») liable in negligence for injuries suffered when Cindy Lee Binette tripped over the metal base of a broken traffic sign that was protruding from the sidewalk.

In her lawsuit, Rosenberg alleged that her Google Maps BlackBerry application told her to walk along a dangerous highway with no sidewalks to get from one Park City, Utah, address to another, that she slavishly followed this instruction, and, shocker, she was hit by a car while doing so.

Although we are in the middle of a summer heat wave, a July 10, 2013 decision by Justice Johnston in Grant v The Corporation of the City of Kingston and Queen's University, ONSC 4689 (CanLII) has caused me to consider legal issues regarding a claim for damages for personal injuries arising from a mid-winter slip and fall incident on an icy sidewalk.

In particular, the case concerned «removals» of this population from sidewalks and city parks by Downtown Ambassadors, private security guards employed by the DVBIA.

This was an appeal by the City of Salmon Arm from a finding of negligence for injuries suffered when the claimant tripped over the metal base of a broken traffic sign that was protruding from a sidewalk.

The complaint stemmed directly from attempts by DVBIA workers (known as Downtown Ambassadors) to «remove» this population from public space, including sidewalks and city parks.

Their goal is to «take you from the streets to the sidewalks and through the doors of the world's cities and towns.