(1) Suddenly, several lanes of cars and buses are zipping past, but Calvo pays no heed – we are on a smooth, green-tarmacked bike lane, separated from motor traffic by both a raised kerb and a waist-high fence.
(2) Then, in March, London's Kerb street food markets approached us and it's been full-on since.
(3) ‘The theory is that if walkers and drivers occupy the same space they’ll behave more responsibly.’ Photograph: Olivia Woodhouse Its big idea, which originated with Moylan, was to create a "shared space" whereby pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles all occupy the same surface, without kerbs or barriers to separate them.
(4) She believes a suitable new one would cost more than £30,000 and have neither all the functions of her original chair nor meet her mobility requirements, which include travelling on London Underground, going up five-inch kerbs and the ability to go up and down stairs.
(5) Other Off The Kerb clients include Jo Brand, Rich Hall, Phill Jupitus and Sean Lock.
(6) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian It is not illegal to sell sex in Britain, but activities associated with prostitution – such as operating a brothel, soliciting and kerb-crawling – are outlawed.
(7) I stepped off the kerb and walked towards the passenger side of his car and as I did I saw a shotgun lying across the seat pointing towards me.
(8) He said: “I heard a wheel definitely hit a kerb, quite a loud crunch noise, I looked up and saw a car clearly hitting people as it came towards me.
(9) Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.
(10) The lack of kerbs is good for people in wheelchairs, but can be disconcerting for blind people, as a result of which Guide Dogs took the borough to court, which must have been an uncomfortable experience for the politicians.
(11) Segregation – separating bikes by a physical barrier like a raised kerb or fence – is something of a holy grail for campaigners, who argue it makes cycling accessible to people of all ages, allowing them to trundle along at slow speeds in everyday clothes.
(12) It happens all the time so I’m used to it - Wolverhampton (Male) An HGV pulled out from a side street and turned right, cutting me up and forcing me to stop at the kerb … [Felt] like he did it on purpose as I was ‘only a cyclist’ so it didn’t matter if he cut me up.
(13) Four women in the Bournemouth area contacted officers with allegations of rape, sexual assault and kerb-crawling that have been linked to Worboys.
(14) He said: “I heard a wheel definitely hit a kerb, quite a loud crunch noise.
(15) Paid-for consensual sex is currently legal in Northern Ireland though activities such as kerb crawling, brothel keeping and pimping are against the law.
(16) How to slow down traffic: ditch kerbs, keep potholes, plant trees Read more Tracy Jessop, Norfolk’s assistant director for highways, said the council had been removing some central white lines for more than a decade in places where there was local support.
(17) Selling sex is not illegal in the UK, but certain associated activities - soliciting, kerb crawling and running a brothel are.
(18) I don’t want this, I have the abilities to work, why are they taking my job away?” Former detective superintendent Alan Caton, who led Ipswich’s response to the murders of five women who worked as prostitutes in 2006, emphasised a different approach, that police had successfully operated a “zero tolerance” approach to sex work after the murders – cracking down on kerb crawlers, while not prosecuting women.
(19) Ross is his highest profile client, but Cresswell promotes a roster of talent with his company Off the Kerb that includes Lee Evans, Jack Dee and Mark Lamarr.
(20) Several protesters smashed kerb stones to throw at police, while others threw stones and shouted abuse at a wall of advancing officers.
Roadway
Definition:
(n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roadway design improvements such as removal of fixed objects from roadsides, widening roadside recovery zones, installing dividers between opposing lanes of traffic, and replacing fixed utility poles with breakaway designs, have been effective in reducing crashes and injuries.
(2) Last year, Russia built a major roadway in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok, in time for it to host an annual summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum.
(3) This paper investigates the injury mechanisms of occupants of pickup trucks and the surfaces that the occupants contact in roadway accidents.
(4) The outcome confirms and expands upon conclusions derived from less formal studies about how drivers perceive other roadway users.
(5) But this primitive security measure was not enough to deter the IRA from launching a mortar attack on John Major’s cabinet from a Ford Transit van from the roadway on the other side of Downing Street.
(6) During the summer of 1987, we investigated a series of firearm assaults occurring on Los Angeles County (California) roadways.
(7) The case is presented of a 26-year-old male who was injured whilst resting in the rear of a moving vehicle that left the roadway and rolled in remote central Australia.
(8) Schools, financial markets and government offices were closed on Tuesday as flooding on major roadways made travel impossible.
(9) Sheriff's dispatch said early Saturday that the roadway had been reopened, but the office did not have any information on the stranded cars.
(10) Safety belt effectiveness for drivers is higher in single-car crashes than in multiple-vehicle crashes, but does not depend much on a variety of other vehicle factors (for example, car size), accident factors (travel speed), roadway factors (posted speed limit), and environmental factors (light versus dark).
(11) For children who were over five years of age, accidents on the roadway as pedestrians (58% of deaths) and pedal-cyclists (20% of deaths) were the most-common causes of death.
(12) ‘A monstrous and useless folly’ The Lower Manhattan Expressway was an effort to tie up the loose ends of local roadways by extending Interstate 78 – all 10 lanes of it – from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.
(13) In Japan, where many people in large cities have been living near major roadways, the increase of automobile exhaust due to heavy traffic congestion will predictably cause a greater impact on people living near major roadways.
(14) Though Davis said on Tuesday her relationship with God precluded her duty as clerk to issue marriage licenses, she told the Moorehead News after winning the race last November: “[I] will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter.” A town of about 6,800, Morehead is situated along a roadway, about 65 miles from the city of Lexington.
(15) An association between increase in pollutant levels and the distance from the roadway was observed.
(16) Throughout the morning, cleanup crews struggled to remove fallen trees and branches from major roadways.
(17) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
(18) The prevalence rate of respiratory symptoms was higher in those areas nearest roadways with heavy traffic both in children and adults.
(19) In Missouri, the state Department of Transportation warned that most major roadways were snow-covered, it was too cold for rock salt to be very effective and the wind was whipping, causing whiteout conditions.
(20) Robert Moses News of the proposed roadway provoked alarm.