Urban Transportation: Towards A Liveable City CHUAH PEI JIN ABSTRACT Cities as we know them today are already dramatically changing. Our living environments are reshaping the way we live. Malaysia is planning for long-term sustainability‚ encouraging us to think about how we can shape it and new ideas that can transform our future. The importance of ecosystem has resulted in the concept of Livable City that becomes a popular concept which is widely used in most city center of established country
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Chennai Metro Rail – The Future of our mass transport Introduction Cities are a matrix of functions and activity and at the helm of this activity is mobility. Before the intervention of automobiles commuting was slower and cleaner. But as the cities grew in numbers the need for commuting more people also grew. There has been a significant transformation in the urban transport sector in Chennai‚ from its earlier dependency on waterways to its current mode of rail and road transport. Since the Urban
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Patricia Merlino Are Cell Phones’ Dangerous (Cell Phone Distractions) Critical Thinking- Philosophy 210 Professor Bass June 10‚ 2012 Are you sick and tired of having your life endangered by drivers who feel they are too important to put their phones down and pay attention to what is going on around them while they are driving? Well many people are? There are already many distractions that a person has to avoid while driving‚ or even when they are walking down the street‚ let alone texting
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My home town is West New York New Jersey. I live in the New Jersey’s 8th District and the Albio Sires is my representative for the House of Representatives. He was born in Cuba in the town of Bejucal. He was a born few years before Cuba became communist. Him and his fled family January 1962. When he moved to America he moved to my home town of West New York. He earned a Masters Degree from Middlebury College in Vermont. Albio Sires was first a teacher for the West New York and a business man before
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Tyler Dow English 10 PD 2 Ms.Watson Elders Driving Percentages show that elderly drivers are responsible for 5% of all people injured in traffic crashes‚ 13% of all vehicle occupants’ fatalities and 18% of all pedestrian fatalities. Cutting down on collisions caused by elders‚ the NH driving safety rate would rise. When a crash involved an older and younger driver 30% of the time it was the elders fault. Elderly drivers have the highest accident rate per mile driven. Elders have lost their
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6th edition in the English Language II. Summery of Contents The main purpose of this book‚ as Jan Gehl explains on this to show his vision to create a good quality of urban life in cities and to give priority for pedestrians and cyclists. On his book life between buildings explains how out door spaces within urban environment a use by a general public. Jan Gehl highlights with in the book facts influence peoples to use space in a particular way. The book continuous
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road at all times‚ because traffic conditions can change in a split second. If the driver is distracted‚ a fatal accident could occur without warning. Attention paid to texting means attention diverted from other activities such as watching for pedestrians‚ looking out for traffic signs‚ and operating a motor vehicle safely (Gardner‚ 2010). Distracted driving is especially dangerous if the distraction involves a cell
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a formal agreement. Under civil law an example of tort is acts of carelessness‚ or failure to act which result in injury or loss to another person. An example is a driver who fails to drive properly and as a result of that failure injures a pedestrian. This incident can give rise to negligence which is the failure to take reasonable care to avoid injury or loss to another person. However in order to prove a negligent claim‚ it must be
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upon. Clarisse‚ a teenage girl that does not follow the “rules” of the community‚ mentioned that‚ “‘...my mother and father and uncle sitting around‚ talking. It’s like being a pedestrian‚ only rarer’” (9). Not following such societal norms can also lead to consequences‚ including getting arrested for being a pedestrian or getting your house burned down because you own books. Being different can also lead to death‚ as we see in Clarisse’s case. She refuses to change the way she acts for the society
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Site Analysis Factors/condition Observations Effect on planning Site The site is approximately 2‚700 square metres. The topography of the site falls from the east to the west across the site. The front (south side) of the site contains floor brick for footpath. The site surrounded by range of buildings. There are no building structure on the site. At present‚ there is open public access to the site is accessible from North side. (Refer to appendix 1)
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