Whether you’re stuck on the 405 freeway during rush hour‚ on the 15 freeway heading back from a long-weekend vacation‚ or driving through the busy streets of Hollywood‚ traffic on the highways and streets of Los Angeles can often be a hassle. In Dagoberto Gilb’s short story Love in L.A.‚ first published in 1986‚ the troubles of traffic are experienced first hand by our main character Jake. Jake is a common fellow with a steady occupation who is merely trying to make his way to work through the busy
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Recently‚ big cities such as Tokyo‚ Beijing‚ and Shanghai suffer from serious air and noise pollution because of the volume of passenger cars. Although passenger cars are one of the most convenient vehicles for residents‚ the governments should ban passenger cars because the volume of passenger cars cause environmental issues‚ health problems of citizens‚ and fearful effects on transport of emergency vehicle. First‚ although the unit sales of eco-friendly cars is increasing in big cities‚ there
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transport vehicles‚ chemicals‚ volcanic activities‚ and most of these pollutants are contributed by human factor. In the paper‚ I will be focus on the air pollution caused by heavy road traffic‚ which almost everyone would realized every day. The fact is that there are too much old cars in the country which have such terrible exhaust system‚ together with the old traffic light system that was comply 20 years ago and it’s considered as a dull system in the modern generation (Echaves‚ 2013). One of
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Most big cities have terrible traffic In present-day society‚ the human race is progressing at an unprecedented rate in a multitude of arenas‚ accompanying all the boons brought about by profound societal changes have come some sufferings. And terrible traffic in most big cities is very prominent among them. As is widely accepted‚ traffic congestion has long been problems of concern and complaint in big cities. In fact‚ most big cities have 135 traffic accidents everyday. The numbers of people
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Brooks‚ M. "What I Want To Be When I Grow Up"; Paradise Café and Other Stories‚ Thistledown Press Ltd.; Saskatoon‚ Saskatchewan; 1988 Martha Brooks’ short story called "What I Want To Be When I Grow Up" is about a 14-year-old junior high student‚ Andrew‚ who has to take the public bus to his orthodontic appointment every third Thursday of the month. After this particular appointment‚ for which he was late‚ he got sick on the bus on the way home. A man that he’d seen on the bus a lot of times before
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THE TRAFFIC SAFETY PROBLEM IN URBAN AREAS J. ARCHER1 and K. VOGEL2 1 CTR‚ Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan‚ Stockholm‚ Sweden; 2 VTI‚ Linköping‚ Sweden E-mail: jeffery.archer@infra.kth.se; katja.vogel@vti.se As the number of people who reside and work in urban areas increases‚ so‚ too‚ do the needs and demands placed on the infrastructure. This has led to severe congestion in many European cities‚ a situation which affects not only the environment in terms of pollution‚ but most notably levels
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yes this is very true! Alexander brings to life all of the things that I have thought and heard from other people; but to read it in text is so gratifying. A literature like this one is so important to me because the criminal justice system is very much a part of my life. As I read the ways the police are targeting people‚ it hits home. "A classic pretext stop is a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws‚ but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence
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death. In the poem " I heard a fly buzz- when I died‚" seems like the speaker is passively sitting there waiting for death. In "Because I could not stop for death" the character is not just going to sit and wait for her life to end. Instead the speaker is going to live life and just let death come to her naturally. In the poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died" the feeling of death being present in the room is the tone. In the poem the speaker writes "For that last onset- when the King/ Be witnesses-
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Traffic congestion is a condition on any network as use increases shamsi tamara dhaka university Traffic congestion is a condition on any network as use increases and is characterized by slower speeds‚ longer trip times‚ and increased queuing. The most common example is for physical use of roads by vehicles. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between vehicles slows the speed of the traffic stream
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A Paper presentation on REAL TIME IMAGE PROCESSING APPLIED TO TRAFFIC – QUEUE DETECTION ALGORITHM [pic] ABSTRACT_____________________ This paper primarily aims at the new technique of video image processing used to solve problems associated with the real-time road traffic control systems. There is a growing demand for road traffic data of all kinds. Increasing congestion problems and problems associated with existing detectors
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