But, as the present argument over road policy here in Britain shows, we are not prepared to make radical lifestyle changes that would make big differences to the environment.
They can't do things like keep cycling while looking for traffic behind them, so they end up wobbling all over the road and falling over.
When Philpott set fire to his house in Victory Road, Derby, he was facing trial over a road rage incident in which he punched a motorist in the face.
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Mr Abbas has put prisoner release on the top of his priority list in the ongoing negotiations over the road map he even threatened to resign over the issue last week.
Councillor Barry Durkin said steel plating will be put over the road, as an intermediate repair, by 15 February.
Every couple of miles, massive concrete pillars hulk over the road.
Fires had been set to clear the spring stubble, and a thin glaze of smoke hung over the road in a steady cloud.
In the park, just over the road from the library, there is a coal dram - a memorial to the closure of the pit.
When he examined the timings of his vehicle travelling over the road speed markings, he knew for certain he had not been driving too fast.
Just over a fortnight ago Tesco announced it was dropping plans for a store in the town after failing to reach an agreement over some road changes.
We drove to their health club a few miles away, passing various scenes of devastation and menacing trees and wires that dangled over the road just above car height.
These numbers reflect the enormous electromechanical leverage the computers hold over the road particularly the active antiroll hydraulics but the experience behind the wheel is decidedly untechnical, a kind of sinister and primal euphoria.
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Members of the 110th Congress are behaving like drunken drivers with respect to the conflict in Iraq, veering wildly all over the road, seemingly oblivious to the risk they pose to others.
Eventually the train tracks crossed over Lovell Road, and we got off them there while the road took us across the river on a steel and concrete bridge that was falling to pieces now.
Nixon was pulled over just after midnight Saturday after another driver called police to report a Dodge Ram truck weaving all over the road, according to an incident report from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.
"As soon as the fight started there were probably four or five guys that ran out to pull them off him and hold them back while he stumbled off over the road, " the witness said.
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"I used to train at the Aquatics Centre over the road and I often ride past the university when I'm training now, but to be invited to accept this honour is just amazing for me", she said.
It was the British decision to transfer control over Latrun - with its command over the road below - to the Jordan Legion, that all but guaranteed the fall of Jerusalem by preventing reinforcements from aiding its undermanned defenders.
Combined with standard stability control that uses the antilock braking system to keep the car headed in the direction you're steering, we found the W8 unstoppable, even during a near-whiteout snowstorm that had a lot of SUV drivers skidding all over the road.
The Daily Telegraph has photographed Mr Jones emerging from a chauffeur-driven Jaguar after a journey of no more than 100 metres between the Wales Office in Whitehall and a cabinet meeting in Downing Street, which is just over the road from Gwydyr House.
They had shaken hands and he had saluted and gone out to the staff car where the old man was waiting asleep and in that car they had ridden over the road past Guadarrama, the old man still asleep, and up the Navacerrada road to the Alpine Club hut where he, Robert Jordan, slept for three hours before they started.
The aim of the bill is to grant Scottish ministers the necessary powers to construct a new road bridge over the Firth of Forth, adjacent to the existing Forth Road Bridge, along with new and upgraded connecting roads.
Paatelainen took over at Easter Road in January, following the surprise resignation of John Collins.
So an investment now in education pays off many times over down the road.
Today you reach Baan Borang over a paved road instead of taking your chances on a winding, rutted 12-kilometer jeep track.
Assistants Steve Owen and Huw Griffiths also leave with Davenport, who took over at Farrar Road in June 2001.
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Expect a bumpy road over the next year or two, as the health insurance exchanges come online across the country.
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But the people who will be walking along the Euston Road over the coming weeks, will they understand his work?
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