Sentence examples for scarce road from inspiring English sources

By enabling more people to cycle safely, cycle tracks make highly efficient use of scarce road space.

Now even the road lobby has come round to the view that demand for scarce road space has to be managed.

When it is operating near capacity, any form of public transport is more energy efficient, more environmentally friendly and makes better use of scarce road space than the private automobile.

Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.

Darfur is landlocked, water is scarce, the roads are rutted tracks crossed by the mud and sand traps of dry riverbeds.

Because he is diabetic, and healthy food was scarce on the road, he would often cook meals on a small propane camping burner in the back of the S.U.V.

Piped water is also scarce, and secondary roads are crumbling in many places.

It is spending £9bn of our scarce money on roads every year, 70% of which is on new capacity.

Traveling inside Congo, however, I found clarity on the question of coltan to be as scarce as paved roads, functioning schools or sober soldiers.

Roads are scarce and cut across tens of thousands of acres of desert, pale scratches on a sea of dun.

A mix of opulence and rustic whimsy, they were also a necessity when roads were scarce, making boats the sole means of reaching the camps (even if, like Post, you could afford to fly in on a float plane).