Sentence examples for designed roads from inspiring English sources

With poorly designed roads, numerous pedestrians and many new drivers, China has a death rate per million registered automobiles that is 6 to 20 times as high as in the United States.

Re "Bicycle-Sharing Program to Be First of Kind in U.S". (news article, April 27), about a new public-private venture in Washington called SmartBikeDC: The real problem is not cost or availability of bicycles, but badly designed roads and aggressive drivers.

There are few unknowns with road crashes; the causes are simple to identify: badly designed roads and unsafe vehicles, trucks, buses and cars mixing with pedestrians, lack of seat belt- or helmet-wearing and enforcement, a fatalistic attitude to risk and inadequate or non-existent driver training.

This past January, I spent a week following in the footsteps of Antoine Fayard, my maternal great-grandfather who built and designed roads, dams and canals across colonial Indochina — traveling along the sandy banks of the Mekong, across the Bolovens Plateau, rich with coffee plantations and stunning waterfalls, then across the border through the well-peopled villages and towns of central Vietnam.

Research efforts led to the creation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a revolution in vehicle safety, better designed roads, and increased enforcement of laws to get drunk drivers off the roads.

They were everything that intelligently designed road signs should be.

Take the Long Island Expressway, perhaps the worst designed road here in the U.S. Nintendo DS + robot = awesome [SlipperyBrick].

Cyclists and drivers highlighted 4,010 junctions, 2,778 stretches of badly designed road, 1,453 poorly built cycle lanes and 1,360 roads made dangerous by pot holes, the newspaper said.

The most significant impact forest operations might have on extreme flows is by routing via poorly located and designed road networks.

Till 2012, the total number of the registered vehicles in Beijing had exceeded five millions, which was far beyond the designed road capacity.

On the way to the Tampa Airport I missed my turn and was stuck driving over a 50-mile long bridge just to make a U-turn (maybe not the best designed road system…).