Sentences with phrase «motorways as»

Great for bowling down motorways as well as cruising round town.

We should be privatising our motorways as Mark Field proposed.

The Liberal Democrats want to charge drivers to use motorways as part of a commitment to making Britain carbon neutral by 2050.

The box serves up well timed automatic changes and doesn't shift down as often on the motorway as the Q5's gearbox.

There's no reduction in sound deadening, torn - out back seats or racing harnesses — the Polo GTI is simply a good place to sit in on a motorway as well as along a twisting B - road.

With a lot of A5 Coupes destined to spend a lot of time on the motorway as company cars, features like the # 1,395 Virtual Cockpit come into their own, if a tad pricey.

The horse in time after time (2003) stands beside a busy motorway as headlights from passing cars draw perilously nearer.

Not exact matches

Playing to its town - centre location, such as close proximity to the motorway network and access to a skilled labour pool, the project masterplan envisages a mix of new office space, a business - class hotel and other complementary uses such as retail and leisure.

Munich is a city of gleaming o ce - blocks and glorious baroque churches, tra c curling out towards the motorways and tourists crowding before the famous clock at the gothic town hall with its carved gures dancing as it chimes out the hour.

Although to many fans that will sound like a good thing, the FIA is already eyeing up making changes so that the amount of tedious motorway - style passing stays the same as it has done in the past.

Tolls on motorways and charges for lorry drivers would be used to fund a major upgrade of the rail network, including high speed train lines such as a London - Edinburgh link, under plans set out by the party today.

Motoring group the AA spokesman Jack Cousens said: «As congestion and traffic jams on motorways continue, it seems that some drivers have decided to look for alternative routes to beat the rush.

Plans to build urban motorways through the heart of cities as was widely proposed — and sometimes carried out — in the 1970s have been largely rejected.

He also gave initial funding for several large infrastructure projects, such as High Speed 3 (an east — west rail line across the north of England), Crossrail 2 (a north — south rail line across London), a road tunnel across the Pennines, and upgrades to the M62 motorway.

By contrast, he said improving the current transport network with traffic flow measures, high - occupancy lanes on motorways and unblocking pinch - points could be very effective, as could investment in cycling and walking schemes.

Critics claim the policy risks drivers» safety, as it potentially impedes emergency services» access to the motorway.

The BMF, as a long campaigner for safer crash barriers for motorcyclists, was concerned that given the large numbers of motorcyclists expected to use this route, such a road should not have steel or wire - rope safety barriers but have instead the latest, motorway - standard, concrete barriers and this has now been confirmed by Lancashire County Council.

He said the Tema Motorway roundabout currently suffers from serious traffic bottlenecks, which impede the movement of private and commercial vehicles within Tema, which affects inter-city commuters who use the roundabout when commuting to and from the Greater Accra Region, as well as the Eastern and Volta Regions.

Roper suggests that the oval design could be applied to anything which would need to be flexible in one plane and stiff in another, such as wheels, fence panels, motorway barriers and propellers.

One stretch of motorway turned out to have twice as much traffic as forecast while another has less than half.

The Thames Valley Police, it seems, are having serious problems with the M40, as the majority of accidents involving injury (and sometimes death) or serious damage on this notably driver - unfriendly motorway appear to be related to drivers becoming fatigued.

Much as you can infer the existence of a motorway from an aeroplane at night by studying the pattern of lights below, neuroscientists can now map neural connections from the water traffic in the brain.

According to Andres Lopez, professor of engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, twice as many miles of new railways are being planned as miles of motorway.

The data could be gathered from roadside monitors, such as cameras on motorway bridges.

Dramatic events, such as sudden motorway - splitting faults or large catastrophic earthquakes may give continental rifting a sense of urgency but, most of the time, it goes about splitting Africa without anybody even noticing.

At one point I was so scared as the speed limit in UK is 70 mph on motorways and he drove at the car's maximum (we have BMW 3 series sports coupe if you are wondering) speed for 30 mins.

End of the 50mph speed limit on the M60 in sight as smart motorway launch date is confirmed.

In other words, Motorway is a stunt film whose stunts are less conventionally compelling than they are thoughtful, a distinguishing quality that's as much a boon to the film's overall quality as it is a liability — and unfortunately the latter ends up winning out.

Beating Norway's world record tunnel by three miles, the scheme has been described by transport minister John Hayes as «the most ambitious project since the construction of the first motorways 50 years ago.»

We know this is working too because rooftop solar is showing up as reduced demand on the national grid (the grid works a bit like the road network — the main transmission lines are like motorways, and local grids are like B roads.

As Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 says lots of answers here, but I would go with the prolonged effect of poor maintenance, the are many cars that do a huge amount of motorway miles eg some sales people do 200 - 500 miles each DAY and don't have many breakdowns.

Effectively, a Tesla parked in a garage benefits from the data as much as one travelling down a motorway.

My run home from the rendezvous with Dobie takes all of ten minutes, but as the route includes four roundabouts, two motorway slip roads and a short squirt of country lane, at least eight of those minutes involve me driving like a complete tit.

And the first thing that's obvious to both of us as we trickle out into Seville's morning rush hour and head for the motorway is how hushed and comfortable the XFR is.

The seats remain beautifully built, with cushions that conform perfectly to your posterior as either you rail the car through a tight switchback or along a long stretch of a motorway.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

It's worse in busy traffic with a lot of stopping and starting or at a slow speeds such as approaching traffic lights, however in recent months it's started happening on dual carriage ways and motorways at 60 - 70mph.

Yet its ability to waft along the motorway at 80 mph in virtual silence makes it a fine long - distance cruiser as well.

Avoid motorways - you would think they would be fine as the inclines are minimal, and they are wide, but unfortunately they are not sheltered, and when conditions deteriorate it is all too easy to be caught out, or get stuck behind someone else who does.

IMHO it depends on the journey you are doing though - if you've just pulled straight off a long motorway run, it's worth letting it run for a minute or so, but if the last few minutes of your journey were pottering slowly through a busy residential area, it's probably not needed, as the engine has been under little load for a while, and so will have cooled somewhat already.

On the motorway, the rear spoiler will fold flat at speed, providing the same DRS effect as Woking's F1 racer.

As previously alluded to it's at its best on the motorway, where the engine fades to a background hum and wind noise is minimal despite the traditional upright windscreen.

It sounds like a supercar and feels as eager as one, and away from the motorway it's easily my car of choice to be transported in.

It feels great on the motorway, where the Countryman is stable and refined, but there's no enthusiasm to the way the Countryman dives into corners and no immediate feedback as you start to turn the wheel.

In the A8, this manifests itself as a system Audi calls «traffic jam pilot», which can control the car completely up to 37mph on dual - carriageways and multi-lane motorways, as well as remote parking and garage parking functions — for which the driver can control the car from outside.

Its motorway prowess will appeal to potential customers too, as the engine seems as quiet and refined at 130mph as it does at 30mph.

Gearing is long and feels longer, because «triples» always sound as if they're revving less than they really are, so you tend to hang on to lower ratios and conserve momentum, finally reaching fifth for a relaxed motorway cruise.

As someone who's personally experienced driving along at 70mph before hearing the most enormous bang, feeling the car veer sharply out to one side and watching smoke and fragments of tire fly off back down the motorway from a sudden sidewall blowout, I can confirm you don't want to experience it.

And there can be few more refined motorway cars, especially as the gearbox's stratospheric eighth gear means the engine stays under 2000rpm even at brisk cruising speeds.

And as sixth shows less than 2000rpm at an 80mph motorway cruise it's not altogether obvious what seventh is actually for, the US being noticeably short of Autobahns.