Sentence examples for curb car from inspiring English sources

Fast Co Exist rounds up the other urban centres hoping to drastically curb car use.

Higher petrol taxes and prices, for example, have done little to curb car use in OECD countries.

Activists counter that it will wreck Bukit Brown and that it would be better to find ways to curb car use.

The government's plan to curb car use by raising fuel duties by at least 5% in real terms annually has been undermined by weak oil prices.

Anne Hidalgo, who became Paris' first female mayor in April 2014, is taking bold steps to curb car use in the French capital and improve air quality.

She spoke once of the "charm" of the system, to the disbelief of commuters who pack themselves into its trains each day, and she wants to curb car use.

Encouraging walking is another part of curbing car use.

Directly or indirectly, one job in seven in Germany depends on the car industry, so in the current disputes over bailouts and climate change policy Merkel has fought to soften new EU laws curbing car emissions.

Politicians who worry a lot about car-industry jobs are also beginning to realise that there can be votes in curbing car use where congestion and air pollution are worst.It is true that some other green changes could help car makers notably a switch to electric cars which could give the manufacturers a new product line to make.

More than a decade since — partly because of disagreements between aviation and conservation interests — no such plan is in place, though many parks have begun looking for ways to trim other noise, turning off idling shuttle buses, curbing car traffic and investing in less uproarious maintenance tools.

Your report about Europe's effort to curb automobile use ("Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future," news article, Jan . 7 did not mention a very clever technique used in Vienna to keep cars from the city center.