"People feel less safe walking on major roadways, with increased congestion, traffic flow and speed.
There have been cases, officials say, of manholes popping up in the middle of roadways, with furtive eyes peering out.
There are about 3.5 million vehicles choking Beijing's roadways, with about 1,200 new cars joining the honking parade each day.
In the northern city of Santiago this month, for example, a policeman was shot in the leg after residents blocked roadways with burning tires and trees.
Officials say the $10m project has created a real-world space where technologies behind autonomous vehicles can be perfected – unlike public roadways, with their inconsistencies.
The state law treats the Segway much like a bicycle, allowing riders on public bike paths, bike lanes, and roadways with speed limits below 30 miles per hour.
Had it gone through, the scheme would have razed vital neighbourhoods and built massive elevated roadways with an LA-style cloverleaf interchange.
There, by gradually building barricades of sand and blocking roadways with shipping containers and dump trucks, they cut off their enemies' routes of reinforcement and resupply.
With a loose Soutine-ish touch and lurid colors, this former painter of junkyards makes engagingly romantic, easel-size panoramas of traffic on New York City roadways, with skewed signs and power lines silhouetted against lush sunsets over New Jersey.
In its central location near major roadways, with a bustling restaurant next door, the conservatory hopes to become what the Westchester arts community has long said it needs -- a place to rehearse, to collaborate, to perform.
But in the nineteen-eighties, with the arrival in town of national real-estate firms, "For Sale" signs started sprouting up, cluttering the roadways with middleman names and numbers.
