Ministers propose that companies carrying out roadworks at peak times pay councils to rent the road space.
Rationing by price is more efficient because it allocates road space to those who value it most.
Cheap fuel and mass-produced cars led to a shortage of road space and the need for pollution controls.
He said some of the more recent cycle superhighways had removed substantial road space, unfairly dedicating it to cyclists.
Another cyclist, Labour's Lord Haskel, believed the biggest issue was the lack of separate road space for road users.
Broadly what it means is more money to improve junctions and more road space to be given over to cyclists which will be extremely contentious.
Governments can either choose to leave people fuming in their cars (which wastes people's time and pollutes the air) or they can ration road space by regulation or by price.
Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.
Traffic gridlock looms in the big cities, especially Jakarta, where the number of motor vehicles has tripled to 9.5m in the past eight years but road space is growing at less than 1% a year.
In our research we aim to be able to emulate this approach in a new kind of software that can provide significant benefits in improving the efficiency of traffic flow, hence improving road space utilisation, reducing journey times and potentially, improving fuel efficiency.
Some of the extra road-space created was used to widen pavements.
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"SUVs occupy greater road and parking space and ought to bear a higher tax, " he said while announcing the federal budget for the next fiscal year starting April.
She thought she had a chance to make the light at the intersection of NASA Road One and Space Center Boulevard, but the driver in front of her maddeningly decelerated as he answered his cell phone, and now he had come to a full stop while the turn arrow was still yellow.
Three road deaths in the space of five weeks prompted calls for a ministerial visit to discuss speeding up improvements to the A76.
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This scenario is commonly referred to as 'head-lighting' because it looks like the dark space on the road between the headlights of a car.
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That permits her to erase her stamp on the office during 65% of the time she is out or on the road, opening up the space for use as a conference room.
What makes traffic in Lagos a hair-raising experience, though, is the aggression and impatience from motorists looking to close up every inch of space on the road, accompanied by the perpetual soundtrack of car horns.
Ashford's ring road was turned into a shared space in November 2008.
Or is it perhaps time to kick the space exploration can down the road and over the cliff?
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Even as people gasp for air in Moscow, Russia's authorities have begun to cut down the forests that surround the city, ostensibly to make space for a badly needed road from Moscow to St Petersburg.
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For any entrepreneur and innovator, space travel is a taxing road to travel, fraught with pitfalls from a sudden lack of political willpower, to finding the right engineering talent, to having no market or clients to speak of.
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MSPs Alex Fergusson and Dr Elaine Murray have pushed the case for work on the road, where three people died in the space of five weeks last year.
Google is renting the new offices to expand on the space it already has on Buckingham Palace Road near Victoria Station.
The road curved along the back side of the Johnson Space Center, an expanse of empty ground bordered by leafless winter trees, where deer patrolled the fence line and joggers wended in and out of sight, following the exercise trail through a thin screen of forest.
Basically, the old Liberty was very capable off-road, but it did not keep up with consumer demands, which now value refined road manners, good fuel economy and lots of interior space more than the ability to hop boulders and ford streams.
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Another example of his unorthodox thinking is his observation that painting the roofs of buildings around the world white and using light-coloured road surfaces rather than blacktop would reflect a lot of sunlight back into space possibly enough to have an effect on global warming as big as taking every car in the world off the road for a decade.
To retail industry analyst Marshal Cohen of market research firm NPD Group, the greatest advantage for Spanx besides the obvious increase in visibility will be the capacity to road-test new products and categories without having to fight for department store space.
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The McDonald's on NASA Road One, just down the street from the Saturn Lane gate of the Johnson Space Center, featured a giant fiberglass astronaut floating out from the roof in the posture of one of the old Gemini spacewalkers, holding an order of fries in his outstretched left hand.
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