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The company, with more than 200,000 drivers on the platform, boosts Indonesians’ productivity in the face of snarling traffic.
So far, Merkel’s coalition is like someone driving against traffic, dead certain that everyone else is going the wrong way.
They build airports and provide radar and satellites that can track planes, air traffic controllers to keep them apart, and security services to keep terrorists on the ground.
Iran could also interfere with oil traffic, leading to a spike in prices and delivering a further blow to American and global economic recovery.
If train traffic on certain routes increased, it suggested that army food supplies were being delivered, thus hinting at impending military action.
Then he was in Brazil, where he was impressed by the country’s use of bio-fuel to power a quarter of its automotive traffic.
While the authorities have sought to quell the protests – cordoning off central New Delhi and subjecting the rest of the city to traffic restrictions – violence has escalated.
Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking.
And the Port of Hamburg has a digital system to reduce water, rail, and ground traffic congestion.
Unfortunately, early anecdotal evidence suggests that these safeguards may ultimately slow down traffic by roughly the same amount of time that the project was meant to speed it up!
In cities, cars offer easy mobility – but only when traffic isn’t too bad.
Companies like Expedia, Yelp, and TripAdvisor argue that Google searches are depriving their Web sites of valuable traffic, putting their businesses at a disadvantage.
Predictably, the West is ramping up its aid, particularly in Myanmar, where the streets of Yangon are now choked with traffic created by aid and government development agencies (and investors).
Binding international rules are thus imperative in order to ensure the safety of fast-growing commercial air traffic.
Road maps, for example, do not tell you current traffic conditions or provide updates on highway repairs.
Though Russia had hoped for a rapid increase in shipping along the Northern Sea Route, commercial traffic this year fell by 77%.
Like cars on a highway, some may drive more slowly than others, but there are minimum and maximum speeds and all must go with the flow of traffic.
The world’s major cities are clogged with traffic jams and pollution.
As Obama understands, such authoritarian aid is a serious challenge to the West’s geo-strategic interests, including the fight against drug traffic (Guinea has become a transit point on the route from South America to Europe).
The murder rate is even higher under Putin than it was under Yeltsin, as is the traffic death rate.
Most cases result from traffic accidents, including car crashes and falls from overcrowded trains, buses, and trucks.
The civil aviation system works so well because all countries use aircraft manufactured by a few global companies and share standard operating procedures for navigation, air traffic control, airport and airplane security, maintenance, insurance, and other operations.
In Saudi Arabia, the state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation built the Al-Mashaaer Al-Mugadassah light-rail project to ease traffic pressure during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mexico has to assume responsibility for regulating this traffic, which means more than sealing off its southern border.
In 1973, the development economist Albert Hirschman likened Latin America’s struggles with inequality to drivers stuck in a traffic jam.
If the traffic never moves, “there is bound to be trouble and, perhaps, disaster.”
The ANC’s promise of a “better life for all” after the end of apartheid was the economic equivalent of an ostensible easing of the traffic jam.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion scandal in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the dubious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
The failure of state plans and projects is overlooked because of the small but expanding internal market, which is invigorated by de facto economic liberalism involving the growth of smuggling and drug traffic.
Some now want to dismiss terrorism as a feature of everyday life, as if extremist violence posed a danger similar to traffic accidents, alcohol, or disease.
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