Sentence examples for restricted car from inspiring English sources

While London suffers dangerous air pollution levels and Paris has restricted car use to every other day, at no time is it more important we change the way we travel than now.

Today, Enrique Penalosa, who greatly restricted car transport as mayor of the Colombian capital Bogota, often refers to the tens of thousands of children killed by cars on the world's roads every year.

Officials with the New York City Department of Transportation based the event in part on recent car-free days held in Paris and Bogotá, as well as the most recent Earth Day when New York restricted car use in three Manhattan neighbourhoods and encouraged citizens to ditch driving.

Frank Kelly, professor of environmental health at King's College London, said: "This air pollution episode follows quickly on the heels of the previous episode which affected most of Europe and led to restricted car use and free public transport in Brussels and Paris.

While it's only a few miles from the crowded trails surrounding Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara benefits from restricted car traffic (the only way in is on infrequent buses or hiking) which has created one of the most pristine and unblemished stretches of nature in the Rockies.

Nowadays, Hemingway Design has just finished designing 800 homes in Gateshead where we have restricted cars to one per household, introduced a bike club and made sure the estate is serviced by an excellent public transport system.

Cities including Shanghai and Beijing have begun restricting car ownership.

Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, will argue that restricting car use is not practical.

Last year, Beijing issued two "red alerts" for pollution, the highest level warning which calls for emergency measures such as closing schools and restricting car use.

Afflicted by suffocating smog, Paris was forced in March to implement automotive austerity measures, restricting car travel through the city for one day to cars with odd-numbered license plates to reduce the emission of diesel fumes.

Many of the policy responses to the climate change problem – consume less, regulate businesses, curb big oil and coal, restrict car use – feel more comfortable to those on the left than the right of the political spectrum.