Sentences with phrase «idling cars»

Those services made use of idle cars and empty rooms to greatly expand the marketplace.

Individuals benefit because now they have the opportunity to put idle cash to use — much like idle cars — for a potentially higher return than their checking account.

Along with rough idle the car is losing its power.

There are also the people who sit in idling cars every day to get their daily fast food fix.

It essentially makes every lane a high - speed E-Z pass lane, letting people get through faster and cutting down on air pollution from idling cars.

Focused on activities inside and outside the classroom, the resource includes activities on surveying the number of idling cars at the school gates as well as learning about lichen on trees and the Peppered Moth.

«De Blasio also suggested the city would start cracking down on idling cars — even though his own fleet has been caught waiting with their engines on for up to an hour outside the gym.

The general rule of thumb is, if you will idle your car for longer than 3 minutes, you should simply shut the vehicle off.

But the quick pickup way of life is increasingly under threat: Tim Hortons has faced flak because of the emissions created by idling cars and several Montreal boroughs are considering banning the building of new drive - thru outlets.

Does not mean they are free in all aspects free or cheap enough, some would idle their cars instead of shutting them off.

Realistically, a large part of our economy is vehicle - based so we can't just not drive, but what we can do is stop idling our cars.

Don't step on the gas while doing this, just idle the car forward, with the parking brake on and then off.

The smaller clicking sound gets much louder as the RPMs go higher, and at idle the car drops RPMs to around 500 and shoots quickly back up to 1000.

On others, first gear could be selected but while the engine was still idling the car would not move even after the gear change pedal had been pressed and released.

Toward the end, the books gets into some «what next» content: «Taking Charge of Your Climate Footprint,» «The Power of Friends and Community,» and «What You Can Do,» a pragmatic list of personal actions children can take, and encourage the adults in their lives to take as well — from asking parents to turn off idling car engines, to eating less meat.

Transportation — Cities must constantly reinvest in their transportation infrastructure — and the cost could spike dramatically as driverless cars enter the scene, potentially requiring a complete overhaul of our roadways (adding sensors, monitors, etc.) and introducing new density problems (parking spaces for more idle cars).

Easing traffic congestion in this way would not simply reduce commuting stress, but it would also cut down on air pollution from idling cars.

Have you developed an estimate of the cost of idling cars / lost productivity for the alternative?

While drive - thrus are generally thought of as bad for the environment because people tend to idle their cars, Michael Lepage, a principal with RWDI, says, «the one thing people have missed is how much time people spend idling in the parking lot.»

While pulling out my breast pump and all its accoutrements from the two bags I had hauled to the room, I wondered: If each year my cellphone and laptop get thinner, lighter and faster, why is my pump the weight of a brick, dumb as a rock, loud as an idling car, and made up of several tiny pieces that need to be separated, sterilized and reassembled after each use?

So, sometimes we'd just all stay in the idling car (outdoors, not in the garage).

City councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson voiced support for the resolution, contending that new plan would be worth a try if it could alleviate the burden of alternate side regulations for drivers and possibly improve asthma rates by reducing the emissions of idling cars.

Systems are humming and active, as in an idling car before the light turns green.

«There is now a device in our pockets that lets firms mobilise idle people and idle cars,» he says.

It is the equivalent of figuring out how much gas an idle car consumes while parked.

The drawn - out pas de deux between Isabelle and her actor friend is a perfect illustration of Denis's craft, a low - key set piece that invests with aching feeling the proximity of two hands and the possibilities that this proximity suggests, the inherent erotic tension of an idling car, and the comical pretext of a nightcap champagne bottle left unopened on a living room coffee table.

I have been idling my car a lot and sometimes used the cheapest gas from some no - name gas stations.

That deep exhaust note brought back a flood of memories as I walked toward Zappala's idling car.

My question: what can dry out (like rubber, etc) or can get damaged otherwise in the idle car?

One of these scepters is rammed through the window of the gold Firebird that Barney's character (James Lee Byars as Osiris) is driving, which knocks the idling car into gear.

«The idling cars in traffic result in exhaust being expelled right in front of residential houses on a daily basis.»

Then there is the issue of pollution, often caused by those big trucks and idling cars.

The lineups at the Tim Horton's drive - throughs are huge, and in the City of Mississauga, idling your car is illegal.

Remember that an idling car uses about a gallon of gas every hour.

The dangers of idling lie primarily in habitual idling, and it's never too late to change your habits and prevent future waste, even if you've been idling your car every day for years.

Alex Bell likes to bike around New York City, but he got fed up with how often bike lanes were blocked by delivery trucks and idling cars.