Sentences with phrase «urban freeway»

Among rural residents, forty - four percent said they feel safe using a cell phone on a rural highway versus fourteen percent who feel safe using a cell phone on an urban freeway.

The urban freeway cut downtown off from the city's regional transportation hub, Union Station, and further exacerbated automobile dependency and suburban sprawl.

Dins that loud can occur when a person uses a power lawn mower or even when someone sits inside an apartment next to an urban freeway (SN: 6/5/82, p. 377).

I used our turbocharged Sonata for a 150 - mile round trip through the Detroit metro area, driving it on surfaces ranging from narrow, highly crowned, hilly gravel roads; to suburban four - lane boulevards; to crowded urban freeways.

Super Cruise has more trouble with urban freeways than rural stretches, and it doesn't respond at all to potential hazards like merging traffic.

But for those of us stuck commuting daily on congested urban freeways, the extra money would be worth it; in stop - and - go traffic, manual transmissions are more than just a nuisance, they are a real pain.

The early examples at Acquavella, such as Ripley Ridge (1977) and Urban Freeways (1979), seemed most indebted to his own still lifes with their diminutive reductions of space.

Left to Right: Wayne Thiebaud, Ripley Ridge, 1977, Private Collection; Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape # 4, 1963/66, Private Collection courtesy of Van Doren Waxter and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Wayne Thiebaud, Urban Freeways, 1979, Private Collection; Photo by Kent Pell, Art © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, Art © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

About half of Americans feel safe speeding on urban freeways (forty - seven percent), while thirty three percent feel safe speeding on rural highways.

Thirty - eight percent stated they feel relaxed on rural highways and just nineteen percent feel relaxed on urban freeways.

For example, when Texas increased its speed limit from 55 mph to 70 mph, the average speed on a sampling of Texas's urban freeways and interstate highways increased substantially.

Fifty - one percent of drivers who felt safer on rural highways than urban freeways said they felt this way because there were just fewer things on the road to worry about — less traffic, less congestion and less people.

Among rural residents, sixty - nine percent felt relaxed on rural highways versus just thirteen percent who felt relaxed on urban freeways.

Not exact matches

Yes, rear - wheel - drive is nice, but if you're mainly going to be navigating freeways and urban / suburban roadways, you don't really need it, and having to send power to the back wheels adds mechanical complexity.

Delphi also said it would unveil a system that uses landmark mapping and sensors to take an autonomous car through complex urban and freeway environments.

It was widely hailed by the professional urban planners and architects when completed, but as Corbin points out, it's a part of Boston, perhaps the part, that residents love to hate, a place that made the old elevated freeway that cut across Boston seem positively organic by comparison.

The Seer opens with a blur of urban lights and longings: the faster freeway, the taller building, the machines that become the objects of our affections.

Steps from Los Angeles» major freeways, Environmental Charter Schools campuses are oases in an urban landscape and incorporate sustainable green features in their designs.

«It's a much better freeway car than it is an urban car,» DeMatio said.

And when the turbo four is in front, you're surprised to find a CTS with lots of power matched by lots of mpg, making this combination the smart choice for urban driving and freeway commuting.

Take it beyond the urban sprawl however — or find a few choice freeway on - ramps — and the Golf GTI comes alive.

Suzuki claims that the Vitara S - Turbo should achieve a fuel economy figure of 6.2 L / 100 km and our real - life figure was refreshingly close to that at 6.9 L with a mixture of urban and freeway driving.

Both work well to inspire confidence during freeway driving, as well as urban - cut and thrust - traffic negotiation.

In our testing in dense urban traffic, twisty mountain roads, and 65 mph freeways, we saw an average of 16.2 mpg for the M3 Convertible with the double - clutch transmission.

On test, we averaged 7.9 L / 100 km over a week's driving in a variety of freeway and urban conditions, which was a little way from the 5.9 L / 100 km official claim.

Although mileage climbed steadily on the freeway, stop - and - go traffic in the dense urban jungle took its toll.

[31] Green Car Reports found that the C - Max delivered 37 mpg ‑ US (6.4 L / 100 km; 44 mpg ‑ imp) over 50 mi (80 km) of mixed freeway and urban driving, and 40 mpg ‑ US (5.9 L / 100 km; 48 mpg ‑ imp) over 240 mi (390 km) mostly at freeway speeds.

The Bottom Line Urban dwellers will love the 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid Limited's great fuel economy and awesome Sync - based tech package, but freeway commuters will find its high - speed manners unsettling.

If you're more inclined to spend time carving up corners than negotiating urban stop - and - go or long - distance freeway cruising, consider the T5 R - Design.

Urban dwellers will love the 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid Limited's great fuel economy and awesome Sync - based tech package, but freeway commuters will find its high - speed manners unsettling.

We're basing this assessment on our first Australian road drive this week, which encompassed urban driving in Sydney's northern suburbs, some freeway driving, a bit of exposure to the rough roads of the southern Hunter Valley and even a short closed road section.

The test comprised about 60 per cent urban shuffling and the remainder a mix or corner carving and freeway cruising.

Monitoring the trip computer, I saw my average spike at 34 mpg on the freeway at 65 mph, but drop to 11 mpg in heavy urban traffic.

And we didn't come too close to the 4.8 L / 100 km fuel consumption claim with an average 6.1 L / 100 km recorded over a week of urban and freeway driving.

Fuel economy for a not - so - small petrol engine is decent: With a week long drive of chiefly urban commuting and errand running, with a smattering of freeway driving, the result was 7.4 L / 100 km for this entry - level HR - V.

After your complimentary city pick - up, we travel south to Mandurah on the recently extended Kwinana freeway, passing through a highly varied change of scenery from urban to rural.

With a colorful rooftop showcasing spectacular city views and a three - story light sculpture of L.A.'s infamous freeways in the sky lobby, the property brings the indoor / outdoor lifestyle to life while drawing design inspiration from the city's car culture and urban scene, foothills and classic beach towns.

Early work explored the built environment through unpopulated urban spaces, such as California freeways, mini-malls and house facades.

Using freeway systems as the investigative constant, thiese paintings and drawings attempt to recreate the pure structure of urban landscape.

Avila's work, including his more recent publication about freeways, offers illuminating means to understand urban space and the deeply politicized and racialized ways it is imagined and comes into being, something so many artists I've gone on to work with engage in their work.

suggests the Congress for the New Urbanism, which has come up with a list of ten North American highways that have passed their prime and are ripe for demolition and replacement by functional, attractive and sustainable urban boulevards.Oklahoma City recently announced plans to knock down 4.5 miles of elevated freeway running through its downtown and replace it with an old - fashioned boulevard and an urban park.

Steps from Los Angeles» major freeways, Environmental Charter Schools campuses are oases in an urban landscape and incorporate sustainable green features in their designs.

Dangers abound in sunny Southern California, from freeway congestion to toxic sun exposure to typical urban - related crime.

Our Teenage Driver Programs offer classroom education, plus very thorough behind - the - wheel training, including freeway, urban roads, parking and more.

Sixty - nine percent of Americans stated they felt safe on multi-lane freeways in urban areas, while seventy - nine percent felt safe on two lane highways in rural areas.

A series of freeway lid caps are being proposed and built across American cities saddled with aging urban highways.

In Dallas, the transformation of a former freeway into an innovative green space has been described as creating a «natural landscape that heals the urban fabric of the city.»