Sentence examples for kerbside from inspiring English sources

Unlike older bus services, Megabus routes picked people up from "kerbside" spots rather than dingy stations.

And taxis still have a monopoly on kerbside hailing.

High kerbside rates are a sign that the government's lending restrictions have at last begun to bite, even on the furthest fringes of finance.China's government will be reluctant to ease monetary or fiscal policy while inflation remains high.

At the behest of Charles Schumer, a senator from New York, the National Transportation Safety Board published a study in 2011 that declared kerbside carriers seven times more likely to be involved in lethal accidents than traditional bus lines.The report, trumpeted by politicians and the press, was a travesty of statistics, but regulators scented blood.

Three years ago the Johannesburg government tried to levy kerbside parking fees of 8.50 rand ($0.80) an hour in posh shopping areas.

The streetscape is punctuated by barbers' shops, storefront churches, kerbside cookouts, card games under gazebos, makeshift basketball backboards nailed to telephone poles and burned-out, abandoned houses.But the officers, square-jawed white men in a nearly all-black neighbourhood, don't balk at their surroundings.

The bet made by the chains was that as India became richer, its consumers would abandon kerbside stalls and kiranas (small family-owned shops) for air-conditioned stores with wide aisles and broad ranges.