Sentence examples for of elevated tracks from inspiring English sources

The crown jewel will be a set of elevated tracks that will circle his bed.

Driving at night across desolate streets in Tokyo, as foreigners surged toward the airports, you saw shop signs and giant outdoor television screens darkened by calls to conserve electricity; you passed beneath the arcs of elevated tracks with scarcely a snub-nosed bullet train gliding along them.

These two innocents, with no experience in city planning, politics, finance, engineering, horticulture or design, started with a romantic fascination with the 22 unbroken blocks of elevated tracks: "The rusting Art Deco railings gave it a sense of lost beauty, and the spaces underneath were very dramatic; they had a dark, gritty, industrial quality, and a lofty, church-like quality as well".

The system consists of a network of elevated tracks under which karts carrying between one and 30 people are suspended.

In China, where high-speed trains speed along thousands of miles of elevated tracks, Disney's monorail would be sadly anachronistic.

In 1867 Charles Henry began work on the city's first quarter-mile of elevated track on Greenwich Street.

And Chicago recently unveiled plans for the Bloomingdale Trail (above), a park on three miles of elevated track on the Northwest Side.

Change is the great constant, and there is an emblematic shot, from 1879, of the sailing ships and horse-drawn wagons at Coenties Slip, with the city's transit future foretold in the stretch of elevated track snaking through the foreground.

Phase I of the line would begin in Santa Mesa in Manila and end in Angono in Rizal, and would consist of 16.8 kilometers (10.4 mi) of elevated track, following the general alignment of Shaw Boulevard and Ortigas Avenue.

Most states statutorily require the tracking of elevated lead levels: some states require the reporting of all results, while others require the reporting only of elevated lead levels, often defined as ≤ 10 μg/dL.

IN the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a blush of tiny red shallots at the base.