Sentence examples for congestion declining from inspiring English sources

London is the second most sustainable city in the world – ahead of Copenhagen and behind only Frankfurt – but scores poorly for congestion, declining air quality, a lack of investment in infrastructure and a chronic shortage of affordable housing, according to a new Sustainable Cities Index.

But sprawl, congestion and declining schools have accompanied rapid economic growth, and the mayor's report called on state and federal officials to help address these problems.

The alternative is to stand by and watch the steady and catastrophic deterioration of facilities, worsening traffic congestion and declining transit service.

Problems classified as 'Fontan failure' may represent problems inherent to the morphologic substrate, operative variables, and inevitable sequelae of the Fontan circulation: chronic venous congestion and progressively declining functional status.

Global warming, increasing traffic congestion, diminishing resources and declining health levels have led to the introduction of several policies aimed at deterring car-usage.

A train of screaming fans would follow the more popular queens wherever they went, with their escorts trying to assuage the congestion by smiling and declining photos.

But how we act or fail to act in the decade ahead will decide whether London becomes one city or two, world city or declining city, the capital of congestion or the capital of opportunity.

The last OE service to this station operated on June 19 , 1931 after the company requested, and received, permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon that section of route because of declining ridership and worsening traffic congestion.

We feel the burden of under-investments in countless ways: poorly trained youth; an epic scale of highway congestion in many places; unprecedented flooding and droughts; and declining global competitiveness.

Johnson has lately gorged on publicity for (quite rightly) asking President Obama to get his London embassy to cough up the £5.5m in congestion charges it has declined to pay over the years or at least to start paying the charge now in return for cancelling the historic debt.

But the report says the fares freeze could restrict that to £6.4bn and that it is "crucial" to tackle the recent, congestion-related, decline in bus use - bus fares contribute one third of TfL's fares income.