Sentences with phrase «of road congestion»

Passengers can leave home without the worries of road congestion, arrive at Manston, park adjacent to the terminal and enjoy an easy check - in.

Ride - hailing offers a new option for the movement of people around the province and Lower Mainland and could serve as an integral tool in the management of road congestion and a complementary element to a public transit system that is nearing capacity in many communities.

Not exact matches

Addressing Perth drivers» notorious inability to merge has emerged as one of Main Roads» key strategies for reducing congestion.

Addressing Perth drivers» notorious inability to merge has been named as one of Main Roads» key strategies for reducing congestion.

It acknowledges that for all the genius of Henry Ford, whose groundbreaking business processes gave the world the freedom of the open road, his cars also brought parking lots, congestion, pollution, decrepit town centers and worse.

A Prius takes up just as much of the road — and causes just as much rush - hour congestion — as a gas - burner, but pays a fraction of the gas tax.

Despite plenty of populist opposition, road tolls actually make good economic sense when it comes to building and maintaining roads and controlling congestion.

Americans spend 42 hours on average sitting in congestion every year, costing each driver roughly $ 1,400, and last week the American Roads & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) reported that more than 54,000 of the country's 612,677 bridges are rated «structurally deficient.»

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

I hope you weren't driving on those visits (on the wrong side of the road) coz it's a nightmare in the City, and don't get me started on the congestion charge!

and they'll be able to use those 11 million dollar cars for the other 310 days (41 home games regular season and 8 post season home games) Public transportation isn't cheap,... until you add up the true cost of other options (building new roads, parking, traffic congestion) Compare the cost to the BART / Oakland Airport connector!

But all the evidence from previous road - widening schemes shows that congestion quickly returns to levels seen before billions of pounds were spent on them.

The other side argues that if you expand roads, you encourage private ownership of cars, and increase the likelihood of those cars to eventually congregate to one area (city rush hours, stadiums, concerts, major shopping centers, etc.), you get congestion.

A statement issued from the Ministry of Roads and Highways copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the opening was necessary to reduce congestion and allow traffic to flow freely at the Interchange and its environs.

In transportation, this well - established response is known in various contexts as the Downs - Thomson Paradox, The Pigou - Knight - Downs Paradox or the Lewis - Mogridge Position: a new road may provide motorists with some level of respite from congestion in the short term, but almost all of the benefit from the road will be lost due to increased demand in the longer term.

By exaggerating the economic benefits of road capacity increase and underestimating its negative effects, omission of induced traffic can result in overallocation of public money on road construction and correspondingly less focus on other ways of dealing with congestion and environmental problems in urban areas.

Sodeinde said the rehabilitation of these roads has to a large extent reduced the traffic congestion in the last three weeks, saying that the Public Works gangs are on the road day and night to give the roads a facelift.

If road capacity expansion does not involve widening of these bottleneck links, congestion may simply move to another part of the network without solving the congestion problem.

The rule of induced demand says widening highways and adding roads does not ease congestion, and often makes it worse.

A bill that surfaced late in the state legislative session became the subject of a fight that legislators said pitted safety measures on the Long Island Rail Road against the need for a third track to improve efficiency and cut congestion.

The goal of the initiative is to reduce traffic congestion and travel delays due to road work.

The debate over creating new dedicated revenue for the MTA has revived discussions of congestion pricing, which would add tolls to city roads and possibly the East River bridges in order to both manage traffic while also raising money for transit.

The company suggests a new «transit tax system» to fund subway repairs, that charges based on road congestion at given times, rather than on the type of travel vehicle.

One of New York City's preeminent jurists, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., affirmed that the city possesses full legal authority to toll its own roads and bridges and thus does not require state approval to implement congestion pricing.

The governor said the decisions were in line with his administration's resolve to ensure free flow of traffic across the State, noting that their activities were contributing to traffic congestion on Lagos roads.

Adam Price, Plaid Cymru parliamentary transport spokesperson, explains why Plaid support road pricing in principle, pointing to the success of congestion charging and small - scale road pricing schemes.

Road pricing is the only option to cut congestion on Britain's roads and could save the economy billions of pounds, a new government - commissioned report has found.

One traditional way of dealing with congestion is building more roads, but in a press conference in London this morning, Sir Rod warned: «The UK can not build itself out of the current road congestion.»

«Provided it is well targeted, a national road pricing scheme of this type could reduce congestion by some 50 per cent below what it otherwise would be in 2025 and reduce the economic case for additional strategic road infrastructure by some 80 per cent,» it says.

However, Sir Rod's report concludes: «Given the scale of the congestion challenge, I believe that there is no attractive alternative to road pricing.»

A survey published by the Department for Transport on «Public attitudes towards road congestion», which was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010, found that over half of adults agreed that the current system of paying for road use should change so that the amount people paid was based on how often, when and where they used the roads.

In this way supporters of road pricing claim it can reduce congestion and is a fairer way of charging drivers than an indiscriminate road tax.

Also road congestion pricing schemes have been implemented in a limited number of urban areas as a transportation demand management tool to try to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

When farms fail, unplanned haphazard development usually follows, clogging our roads with congestion and resulting in other unintended negative consequences of poor planning.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito today asserted that proposed legislation to limit the number of new app - hail cars on the road is based on concerns over traffic congestion, pollution and labor standards — not the plummeting value of the city's once - coveted taxi medallions.

Torbjorn Heierson, a regional director for the Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies, which represents the hauling industry, said that he has come to see the benefits of congestion pricing.

Singapore sets varying fees based on the road and time of day, and adjusts them in response to traffic conditions, with fees going up when there is congestion, and down when there is not.

The British Motorcyclists Federation is firmly of the opinion that any road pricing or congestion - charging scheme should exempt motorcycles.

A statement issued by the Ministry of Roads and Highways, said the opening was necessary to reduce congestion and allow traffic to flow freely at the interchange and its environs.

As far as reducing UK emissions is concerned, it would make more sense to cut rail fares to encourage people to use trains more — instead of pushing people back into cars on already jam - packed roads, and increasing congestion, emissions and air pollution.

The main objection to motorway polls or congestion charging is that 86 per cent of the AA motorists would not trust the government to keep its word if they had offered reductions in fuel duty or road tax upon the introduction of road pricing.

Focusing on the highways sector, a majority (73 %) of firms polled see tackling congestion on the road network as either critical or important to the future operation of their business.

We need to look at innovative approaches to the funding of our national roads - to increase investment to reduce congestion.

At 2 p.m., the New York Independent System Operator hosts a forum to present the results of its 2015 Congestion Assessment and Resource Integration Study, Radisson Wolf Road, Colonie.

It was on June 19 when Gov. Andrew Cuomo casually dropped mention of «congestion pricing» into an otherwise unremarkable speech unveiling a new Penn Station concourse for Long Island Rail Road passengers.

A study by the state Department of Transportation says the project would lower shipping costs by $ 500 per container while boosting the local economy and easing congestion and wear and tear on highways and roads.

«In addition to the environmental and safety benefits of reduced congestion, such a plan also stands to generate funding for much - needed investment in our roads and transit system,» the agenda reads.

The article pasted below - Listen To The Protest And Just Go Local - essentially says that the party is opposed to a national programme of road - pricing but in the spirit of the party's new emphasis on localism, it supports the freedom of local government units to choose their own models - like Ken Livingstone's congestion charge.

On Saturday, at the party's Autumn Conference, Welsh Liberal Democrat members voted to support a solution to develop the A48 Southern Distributor Road to move local traffic off the M4 and reduce congestion, and ruled out supporting a  # 1 billion relief road south of NewpRoad to move local traffic off the M4 and reduce congestion, and ruled out supporting a  # 1 billion relief road south of Newproad south of Newport.

De Blasio insisted he has a better shot of getting the City Council on board now, since tens of thousands more for - hire vehicles have flooded the roads, increasing congestion.