Sentence examples for restrain traffic from inspiring English sources

The capital's new mayor, Ken Livingstone, has a clear mandate to restrain traffic congestion.

He will also have to address the question of how to restrain traffic and reduce congestion without alienating voters.

One possible solution is a congestion charge to restrain traffic growth around the airport.Airlines are complaining, but environmentalists are likely to be unhappier with the white paper.

Rather than use traffic control to increase efficiency of movement, controls are used to create impediments that restrain traffic from sensitive areas.

One of his colleagues there was David Begg, now chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport, an official advisory body, and an influential advocate of the need to restrain traffic by price.

The real annual increase in pump prices has averaged only 1.5% over the past three years.The commission's stark message that action to restrain traffic is urgently required contrasts with the tone of the government's discussion paper on transport policy published on August 21st.

Fuel duties, he points out, are an ineffective and crude way of restraining traffic.

Singapore, which has led the way in restraining traffic by price since 1975, has addressed many of these issues.

The absence of both the prime minister and the chancellor from the front bench as Mr Prescott made his statement last week was a telling demonstration that there are few votes to be gained from restraining traffic.

The plan, which is supposed to improve the road network and public transport while restraining traffic, was described last week by the House of Commons transport select committee as "incoherent and unbalanced".Mr Darling will have to decide how far he can go in backing congestion-charging without incurring the wrath of Mondeo man.

If this target is to be met, it will inevitably require much higher energy prices as well as radical action to restrain car traffic.