Sentence examples for remove streets from inspiring English sources

The main purpose of this paper is to better understand the removal of space in urban settings and to provide some analytical results showing that it is possible to remove streets from a city without worsening traffic excessively.

Nor is it a comment on New York's Department of Sanitation and how effectively its 7,197 uniformed sanitation workers and supervisors remove street litter on designated days of the week.

Since then, the government has sought unsuccessfully to remove street vendors from the centre of Cairo, using fines, prison sentences and violence.

[New York Post] The city has been pushing to remove street fire alarm call boxes, prompting a lawsuit to keep the boxes on the streets so that people without cellphones can report fires.

The World Cup South Africa Special Measures Act of 2006, for example, authorized the creation of exclusion zones around stadiums, where officials can remove street vendors selling unapproved merchandise.

Activists threw bricks, while police used batons, pepper spray and fired shots in the air as hygiene inspectors tried to remove street vendors.

Removing street parking is also problematic, because open spots are already rare.

After police removed street people from the area, Gisele Bundchen arrived for the show in a vintage red convertible.

False Alarms Drop Q.: In the mid 1990's the city began removing street-corner fire-alarm boxes, arguing that they were used primarily to send false alarms.

The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency is in the early stages of a plan that could squeeze cars on these popular routes to make room for bike lanes — by eliminating travel lanes or by removing street parking spaces.

Armored personnel carriers roamed the Falls Road and helicopters hovered overhead; local residents removed street signs to disorient British patrols, and rattled the lids of trash bins to sound the alarm.