Observing dark matter, she suggests, is like spotting a famous person: "Even if you don't see George Clooney directly, the disruptive traffic generated by the waiting crowd armed with cell phones and cameras suffices to alert you to a celebrity's proximity".
TFSS is concerned the construction will bring toxic fumes, excessive noise and disruptive traffic, and negatively impact the development and learning environment of their children.
But the opponents imagined disruptive construction, traffic problems and an end to the small-town flavor of their street.
Ms. Sadik-Khan said that the Transportation Department had worked with the Police Department to design a route that would be less disruptive to traffic.
Several protesting delegations were present who disputed the number of stops, the number of tracks for the proposed line and the method of construction: tunnelling (expensive) vs. "cut-and- cover" (disruptive of traffic).
The numerical outcomes confirm that, by using this approach, it is possible to correlate with good accuracy roughness and structural performance, allowing road agencies to actually reduce the deflection test frequency, since they are generally more costly, time consuming, and disruptive to traffic than functional surveys.
This category includes: Inductive loop detectors: By far the most widely deployed sensor technology, loop detectors are typically low cost sensors but installation and maintenance are disruptive to traffic, and there are potentially serious reliability/accuracy issues.
Having a sidewalk along that side of the road, they said, would bring potentially disruptive foot traffic behind their properties and could result in people peeking into their yards or throwing trash over their fences.
Instead of widening the existing structure, Transport Minister Eric Charlton on 15 July 1998 approved the construction of a separate second road bridge alongside the original Narrows Bridge; this solution would cost $15 million less, due to new building techniques, and would be less disruptive to traffic on the existing bridge.
At the edge of GlobalCenter's network, for example, engineers have installed rate limiter software that prevents disruptive torrents of traffic from entering its data centers.
"It would be disruptive in terms of traffic to have the rally there," Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said yesterday.
