Sentence examples for removing traffic from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Sgarbi has already found a candidate to "rework" Mr. Meier's design -- Antonio Tamburrino, an urban planner who wants to recover the Port of Ripetta, once situated near the Tiber south of where the Ara Pacis now stands, even though recovering the port would mean removing traffic from the thoroughfares that line the Tiber.

By the time he cites research on the counterintuitive effects of removing traffic lights from cities – it seems to be safer – his terms are multivalent to the point of meaninglessness: "What is the catastrophe the red light assumes it is wanting to avert?

The southern end of the South Park Blocks were closed to cars in 1973, removing traffic from the blocks and the center of the university.

India responded to her arrest by removing traffic barricades outside the U.S. Embassy, revoking American diplomats' licenses to import alcohol duty-free and barring non-diplomats from using the embassy's social club, whose swimming pool, beauty salon, tennis court and other facilities are popular among American expatriates.

Mr. Dapolito and powerful allies like Eleanor Roosevelt and Jane Jacobs successfully fought to remove traffic from the park and stop a freeway planned for Lower Manhattan.

But the new attention to cycling has also encountered resistance in some neighborhoods, especially when it threatens to remove traffic lanes for cars and trucks.

In Houston, for example, voters last year approved a petition to remove traffic cameras that have generated more than $44 million in fines since 2004.

Critics charge that City Hall has placed a stigma on car ownership and unilaterally removed traffic lanes for the use of a small minority of residents.