Jim Dixon, chief executive of the park, said the off-road vehicles were causing damage to the landscape and that only a small section was being considered for closure.
Another expensive option that is being actively canvassed is a scheme to subsidise the scrapping of old cars in order to get the most polluting vehicles off the road.
Chinese officials last month implemented a drastic plan to combat Beijing's persistent pollution problems, taking half of the city's more than 3 million vehicles off the road, temporarily closing factories and chemical plants, and suspending all construction work.
Gov. Deval Patrick told nonessential state workers to stay home Friday and ordered all non-emergency vehicles off the road by 4 p.m.
Tales of headless horsemen stalking ancient burial sites, gruesome hairy hands forcing vehicles off the road and a visit from the devil himself have given Dartmoor a doomladen reputation, making it a favourite setting for writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
Part of the program's intent is to get vehicles with low fuel efficiency off the road.
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In the shade under the Number 13 bus stop (the road is off-limits to vehicles on Sundays) one hears more Ilonggo, spoken on Panay island.
More than 30 crashes involved single vehicles sliding off the road.
In all three cases, vehicles were swept off the road in flash floods.
For the rest, they look upon it from their terraces and their decking, they stroll a few hundred yards across it, and then they get in their off-road vehicles to drive on the road to the nearest town or city, where they sit in an office staring at a computer screen.
Simply getting the tens of thousands of U.S. Postal Service vehicles that bring us our mail on Saturday off the road would be a good start for those concerned about carbon pollution.
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In June, Sichuan Tengzhong announced that it had a tentative agreement with GM to buy the brand, which features large off-road vehicles that initially were developed for military use.
Helicopters and modified off-road vehicles are used to round up the camels.
"The market for this technology is truly global ... for trucks, buses and off-road vehicles of many shapes and sizes, " said Alexander "Sandy" Cutler, CEO of Eaton Corp.
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