Sentences with phrase «narrowed traffic lanes»

Installing it required a major reconfiguration of the avenue that knocked out dozens of parking spots, added medians and landscaping, and narrowed traffic lanes.

Meanwhile, in my favourite anti-bike tweet of the week, I have to agree with Ken here that this is the stupidest reason yet to oppose bike lanes and narrower traffic lanes.

Specific recommendations made by the ad hoc committee include enlarging sidewalks and narrowing the traffic lanes to focus on pedestrians.

Not exact matches

Heavy traffic, narrow lanes and the lack of emergency shoulders often contributed to congestion and frustration for motorists.

Andrew Cuomo's new HOV / bus lane on the Verrazano - Narrows bridge — which was intended to be a key part of the governor's plan to ease commutes ahead of planned maintenance work on Amtrak lines but which turned into a traffic «disaster» on the day of rollout — was partially complicated by a contractor screwup on signs, the MTA admitted.

The city plans to narrow Delancey Street's rushing flow of traffic by eliminating unnecessary lanes and parts of the service roads that border the street.

The authors also note that driver behaviour is a hugely important and unquantified factor, they urge more qualitative research in this area and note «in order to reduce perceived risk and encourage more cycling... reducing or calming existing motorised traffic must be explored first... lane width is the most significant variable to achieve a sufficient vehicle passing distance... the provision of narrow (< 2 m) cycle lanes... may be insufficient... Reconsideration of the entire road design and further exploration of driver behavioural factors is required.»

It's also pretty useful when dodging fast - moving Fiat Pandas that come at you from all sides on narrow lanes that gradually climb up and away from the artful chaos of Italian traffic.

Getting there is fairly simple but your journey will very much be dictated by traffic conditions, as the narrow lanes around the house aren't best suited to feeding large volumes of traffic into the event.

It can park itself automatically via a remote - control app, allow the driver to briefly take hands off the wheel at speeds up to 130 mph, adapt to what the vehicle in front is doing, steer itself through obstacles like a narrow construction lane at speeds up to 80 mph, and overtake traffic automatically.

On the famously narrow country lanes of the British Cotswolds, which are heavily seeded with traffic speed cameras, there was not much opportunity to appreciate the SVR's power or even its overtaking abilities.

These roads have a tendency to get quite narrow in places — often funneling two - way traffic down to little more than a single lane with next - to - zero notice — so the Velar had moments where it felt quite large as a fjord explorer.

It's not even much of a bike lane, it's narrow and beside four lanes of traffic that goes very fast, just a strip of paint on the road.

There might be one lane of traffic in some places, but because of the narrow width of the street it might as well be entirely pedestrian.

The risk of head - on accidents is greatest on two - lane rural roads, and roads with narrow lanes, sharp curves, and no separation lanes for opposing traffic.

Issues like sharp curves, narrow lanes, heavy traffic, poor visibility, and other conditions can significantly raise your risk of involvement in an accident.

If the traffic lane is too narrow for a motor vehicle operator to pass a cyclist, the driver must utilize a different lane or wait until it is safe to pass the rider.

The county has built «a lot of brand new sidewalk, in some places where there was none, in others where it was too narrow and hard against traffic lane,» Zimmerman said.