With a 520-mile-long coast lined largely by teeming roads and fragile infrastructure, New York City is gingerly facing up to the intertwined threats posed by rising seas and ever-more-severe storm flooding.
Crossing Moscow's teeming roads would be impossible without the underpasses, but tens of thousands of six-lane highways have been or are being built around the world with neither underpasses nor bridges – never mind safety barriers – thereby forcing pedestrians young and old to "play chicken" simply to get to school or work.
But now, two years later, I turned off the highway, teeming with road hogs and pot rodents, into the brand-new forecourt of the Spice Garden Inn, and it could have been the latest incarnation of the Colombo Hotel Corporation in full flutter: a northern cousin dolled up with colored flags, ribbons, and streamers.
VISITING Oxford Street, a road teeming with tatty shops and overcrowded with people, is plainly a trial.
A bomb placed inside a propane gas canister exploded on a pedestrian-only road teeming with pilgrims not far from Imam Hussein's shrine, killing at least eight people and wounding 35, according to an Interior Ministry official in Baghdad who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Old visions would fill my head — of potholed roads teeming with animals, of pus oozing from the sores on my legs from dozens of mosquito bites.
Small businesses and markets alongside the road are teeming with produce, but the pigs are still here, wading through rubbish and polluted water in the gutter at the side of the road.
Bullock carts, tractors and shared rickshaws dominated the road, which had suddenly become less a road than a teeming bazaar.
The beauty and enjoyment of the parks are diminished and the users -- walkers, runners, bikers or skaters -- are endangered when the park roads are teeming with auto traffic.
Its roads are teeming with SUVs, and it contributes more than its fair share of uber-fashionable models, reality TV participants and cricket stars; it is the modern Indian city.
The Girl in the Road describes our teeming planet in 2068, when India and China are the major global powers and African capitals like Addis Ababa the loci of world culture.
