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Discover LudwigThe phrase "discouraging driving" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing measures or actions aimed at reducing or preventing driving, often in the context of promoting alternative transportation methods. Example: "The city is implementing new policies aimed at discouraging driving in the downtown area to reduce traffic congestion."
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Such campaigns seek to accomplish goals like encouraging the use of seat belts, discouraging driving while intoxicated or promoting tolerance.
It will take positive action for behavioral change: a sustained public education campaign discouraging driving while promoting public transportation.
55 56 The risk of road traffic accidents could be reduced by discouraging driving after very long shifts (more than 16 h) and where there is sleep deprivation.
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Others are tweaking prices to discourage driving as a default when other options are available.
To discourage driving downtown, meters and parking lots there would charge more during peak traffic times.
The mayor's critics say he is doing everything he can, in his last years in office, to discourage driving.
The new policy is part of a determined bid to shift the government on to the side of the motorists after successive governments appeared keen to discourage driving.
Her manifesto is similarly positive (see p41), and includes measures to discourage driving, such as a levy on some parking spaces and changes to congestion charging.
More than a year after Samuel I. Schwartz, a traffic engineering expert, recommended cutting the number of proposed parking spaces from 1,100 to about 540 — to discourage driving — the figures suggest that car use has been even lower than had been projected.
Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's mayor, said that better parking systems were part of a broader approach to managing congestion without imposing restrictive tolls, as used in London and Singapore to discourage driving in downtown areas.
A string of new traffic measures, including high fines, designated parking areas and campaigns to discourage driving in favor of mass transit, biking and walking, have eased the plight of pedestrians somewhat.
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