Sentence examples for congestion spending from inspiring English sources

The real estate scion muses about watching the city lights, the hopeless traffic congestion, spending time at a Sunset Boulevard coffee shop and his love of attending the opera.

Generational congestion Grandparents spending hundreds on rock concerts; parents rarely stepping out of their hip jeans; teen girls stocking up on lipstick and perfume and amassing shoe collections that would be the envy of Carrie Bradshaw.

We've been together for a while and continue to brave L.A. congestion to spend time with one another.

Penalising public bads can even be a stealthy, roundabout way of funding public services; Ken Livingstone funded improvements in the public transport system, for example, by taxing congestion and then spending the money on more buses.

He suggested that a third runway might actually reduce emissions above Heathrow, because with less congestion, planes would spend less time idling on runways or circling in holding patterns.

Time and productivity are not the only negative effects of congestion, as time spent idling contributes steady streams of pollution.

If the fees raised by congestion pricing were spent on local transit improvements, riders would benefit both from expanded systems and a reduction of bus service delays caused by heavy traffic.

Overbooked airports frequently lead to runway congestion, forcing travellers to spend long hours stranded on the tarmac while they wait to take off or disembark.

By contrast, the London mayoralty works so well because the Mayor's actual powers are very limited, his ability to raise funds confined to public transport and congestion charging, and he spends comparatively little.

The key to creating a consensus, Mr. Shaw said, is to show how the hundreds of millions of dollars in projected revenue from the congestion charge would be spent to improve the region's mass transit system.

The top 10 cities for hours spent in congestion each year?