Sentences with phrase «peak traffic hours»

Senior drivers use their cars less often, and they avoid hectic traffic zones and peak traffic hours.

The engine is tractable, city drivability has improved a lot and the automatic gearbox is very convenient in peak traffic hours.

Ranzenhofer, a senator, said he lives just several miles from the Williamsville toll barrier, which regularly backs up during peak traffic hours.

«Congestion pricing» would charge vehicles entering certain parts of NYC during peak traffic hours.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday plan to start charging drivers in Manhattan, known as «congestion pricing,» during peak traffic hours as a way to curb traffic and fund subway repairs.

If you can, leave early (or late) to avoid peak traffic hours.

Not exact matches

The hours chosen — midnight, 9 a.m., noon and 5 p.m. — correspond to the periods in which traffic to the Times website normally peaks.

The report from Sandvine, a company that sells Internet traffic - management systems, finds that Netflix use accounts for 33 percent of all downstream traffic in North America during the peak hours between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m.. By contrast, Amazon and Hulu only account for 1.8 percent and 1.4 percent of downstream traffic, respectively.

The organization also aims to contribute to the creation of a system or set of systems that would allow people to automatically pay for the use of both ride - sharing and car - sharing vehicles; for the insurance policies covering those vehicles; for the energy that those vehicles consume and the pollutants that they emit during a trip; and for traffic that the commuter contributes to by traveling during peak hours.

The American Visionary Museum proved to be a peak artistic and cultural experience, worth enduring the stop - and - go traffic during our 6 - hour ride home (which should have taken about 4 1/2).

Flexible work hours (a different, but related issue) can allow people to work at the time of day when they are most productive, to avoid sitting in traffic at peak hours, to be at important events in their families lives, and more.

It was peak hour traffic at 5 pm when he returned.

My father raced me to Kingsbury hospital (I was amazed to have arrived there in one piece, it was a Friday, peak hour traffic, over OuKaapseWeg) and Jacques met me there.

A limit on the number of emails that can be sent via the «Write Your Rep» web form system (the software that a majority of Representatives use to power their web forms) is being imposed during peak email traffic hours.

Beginning next year, New York City will test a pilot program limiting curbside delivery in certain high - traffic commercial zones during peak hours — and will also crack down on drivers who block intersections — as part of the mayor's five - part plan to curb congestion.

He also said former Mayor Mike Bloomberg's plan to reduced traffic congestion in Manhattan — by charging drivers in heavily used areas $ 8 during peak hours — wasn't fair to the outer boroughs.

Schwartz is a renowned traffic engineer and the proposal Ryan referenced is Move New York, which involves reducing tolls at bridges with less traffic and increasing them in higher traffic areas, variable pricing for peak and off - peak hours, and adding tolls to the East River bridges, among other ideas.

Girls also actively enlist their friends to comment on and like their posts in an attempt to boost their popularity index, with especially savvy Instagram and Facebook users being active during peak social media traffic hours in order to maximize their number of likes.

Another way to reduce rush hour traffic is for employers to implement flex - time, which lets employees travel to and from work at off - peak traffic times to avoid rush hour.

And what better way to beat peak hour traffic?

Try to avoid high - pollution areas at peak times (ie rush hour traffic), be mindful of the outdoors when there are smog or air advisories, and clean your indoor air with air filters, charcoal bags or air - purifying plants.

The measurements should be taken during school hours over a suitable time period to be able to quantify the representative sound pressure level, likely to occur during teaching hours and should include noisy events — such as peak time road traffic, but should exclude rare, intermittent events, such as the mowing of school lawns.

Driving home from the launch saw the car's consumption drop from 10.8 to 8.7 L / 100 km — helped by over 100 km of freeway driving, but also offset by about 30 km of peak - hour Melbourne traffic, including roughly 5 km of bumper - to - bumper morass.

With the same axle ratios, transmission, and drivetrain, the Aspen returned 12.4 lit / 100 km (19 miles / US Gal) after some driving in peak hour Montreal traffic, and about 1200 km on the highway on my drive home from Montreal.

The worst mileage as indicated on the MID was 8.9 kmpl during peak - hour traffic in Mumbai.

We recommend hosting an event during your peak business hours or during already scheduled programing to attract the optimal traffic.

While these workers are well aware they're sitting pretty (sometimes in their pajamas) in their home offices and avoiding peak - hour traffic jams, they might not realize that their business belongings aren't fully covered on their homeowners insurance policies.

They fly helicopters over the major cities and report down to frustrated commuters on peak hour traffic conditions.

Increase that commute time to 60 minutes (or up to two hours each way during peak travel times) and you're looking at 43 days spent in traffic.

Crazy congestions and long, mind - numbing waiting times... we are all too familiar with peak - hour traffic.

Loyalty programs can also help retailers identify traffic patterns, giving them the opportunity to create smoother revenue flows by creating offers that drive customers to the store during off - peak days or hours (the same strategy applies if a retailer has multiple sites and wants to drive traffic to slower locations).

Car: 90 minutes west of Sydney, allow longer in peak hour traffic when Sydnesiders escape for the weekend.

The traffic at peak hours is quite intense.

Total travel time One Hour, In Peak Traffic, up to One and Three quarters of an hHour, In Peak Traffic, up to One and Three quarters of an hourhour.

- Not many bars and pubs in the area - Congested traffic during peak hours - Not many choices in terms of accommodation

GETTING AROUND in Shanghai is easy in general but could be a little troublesome during the peak hours, as it is likely that ground transportation will run into some traffic.

Early data on the Port Authority's recent toll increases (which raised peak - hour tolls from $ 6 cash / $ 5 E-Z Pass to $ 8 for all car users and increased the difference between peak and off - peak tolls to $ 2) show that daily traffic volumes between 6 am and 6 pm have declined by 2.2 % since the toll increase took effect on March 2.

The town is notorious for its traffic delays and tailbacks during peak hours.

He told Metropolis, «The peaks of traffic flow more or less coincide with those of energy use» and suggested that rush - hour chaos on the highways could actually help power the commute for public - transport users.

During peak hours it would be more expensive to curb traffic and during off - peak it could be cheaper to help businesses.

96 of the nation's top 100 markets (by population) had drops in traffic congestion levels in the first half of 2008 compared to 2007, with a 3 % nationwide average decrease in travel times during peak hours.

The streets in downtown Toronto with streetcar tracks that I navigate on a daily basis have a speed limit of 50km / h with cars often driving at speeds exceeding 50km / h outside of peak hours when traffic is less congested.

Los Angeles ranked number one in the nation for time stuck in traffic and L.A. Angeles residents who traveled in «peak» periods were subjected to 72 extra hours behind the wheel every year because of traffic jams.

Some people choose to use alternative transportation for work reasoning from the fact that it can be faster and safer than to manage peak hour traffic.

While these workers are well aware they're sitting pretty (sometimes in their pajamas) in their home offices and avoiding peak - hour traffic jams, they might not realize that their business belongings aren't fully covered on their homeowners insurance policies.

You have a tendency to be late for work, often blaming train breakdowns, dizzy spells, or peak - hour traffic jams.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

At least, not in peak hour traffic.