Why we should raise legal driving age to 18 There were thirty thousand deaths of teenagers which were caused by car accidents from 1995- 2004. The issue of changing legal driving age has been being debated for decades. I am a teenager but i would not risk my life or other people if i am not ready. The first reason why we should raise the legal driving age to eighteen is the safety of drivers. Teenagers under eighteen are not yet developed the abilities to drive safely. For example
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Monorail is a rail-based transit system for the Indian city ofChennai. It is proposed in the Long-term Urban Transportation Scheme of Second Master Plan by CMDA. The state government has announced plans to introduce monorail across City to reduce traffic congestion and to increase the share of public transport in the urban transport network. The aim is to increase the share of public transport in Chennai from 27% to 46% by 2026 Chief Minister Jayalalithaa‚ through the Governor Surjit Singh Barnala’s
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TRANSIT: IMPACT ON BANGLADESH Md. Anwar Hossen‚ Department of Economics ‚ Shahjalal University of Science and Technology‚ Sylhet‚ Bangladesh‚Email: anwarbabu40@gmail.com 1. Introduction A debate has been raging in the country on whether transit facilities should be given to India or not through the land territory of Bangladesh. Some argue that it should not be given unless some core bilateral issues with India are resolved‚ while some have advanced the view that transit is an economic issue for
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What are the factors behind the rise of Mega Cities‚ and to what extent are these urban areas sustainable? Megacities‚ defined by population‚ have at least 10 million inhabitants. In recent years‚ megacities in the developing world have grown rapidly with little or no planning. As a result‚ they face cries of infrastructure‚ poverty and unemployment. The driving force for the rise of megacities is mass urbanisation between rural – urban areas‚ as well as rates of natural increase that are higher
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overpopulation; such as: pollution‚ traffic jams and shortage of real estate to name a few. If I were to change one thing about Pune‚ it would be the excess population of our city. Over the past decade‚ the population of Pune has nearly doubled. This rise in population has resulted in a dramatic increase in pollution. Almost every household in the city now owns a car. Without any regulations regarding car emissions‚ air pollution has gone rampant. During peak traffic times‚ visbility is greatly reduced
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J.CO mulai beroperasi pertama kali di Supermal Karawaci‚ Tangerang dan kemudian langsung membuka outlet sebanyak-banyaknya. Dalam waktu setahun‚ J.CO telah punya 16 buah gerai dengan 450-an orang karyawan untuk gerai saja. Tujuh gerai terdapat di Jakarta dan sisanya di Bandung‚ Surabaya‚ Makassar‚ dan Pekanbaru. Dalam waktu dekat mereka akan buka di Palembang‚ Batam‚ Manado‚ Bogor‚ Medan‚ dan Bali‚ dan ada keinginan juga untuk go international pada tahun 2007 dengan pilihan lokasi di Australia‚
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Making bigger roads seems to solve traffic jams‚ but clearly it has never been the case. What creates traffic is not the number of cars but the number of trips. More infrastructure = makes it works. Solution: restrict car use. Best way to restrict car use-- restrict parking. City absolutely hated itself. When he became mayor‚ he started investing in people-- bus based public transportation system. TransMilenio (bus rapid transport system)-- copied a system from a city Brazil. Erased the stigma
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Governments Should Spend Money On Improving Public Transportation Many people in the world want their countries to be developed‚ and they want to have a good quality of life. Also‚ they want their countries to have strong potential economy to compete with other nations. As a result‚ it is necessary for the government to work on improving facilities which are the basic foundation of life. In my opinion‚ governments should spend more money on improving public transportation‚ such as buses
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CHAPTER – 01 URBANIZATION IN BANGLADESH 1.1 Introduction Today Bangladesh is experiencing a rapid pace of urbanization. Although the level of urbanization is low (23.1%) the country already has got a huge urban population which is more than 28 million (Census‚ 2001). However after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971‚ urbanization and urban planning got little priority in the national policies and strategies of the country. Even at present‚ there is no proper policy guideline or regulations
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David Foster Wallace’s speech is to show the value in liberal arts college. In the passage David Foster Wallace writes‚ "I have come gradually to understand that the liberal-arts cliche about "teaching you how to think" is actually shorthand for a much deeper‚ more serious idea "Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning
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