Ambulance drivers transporting patients are exempted under the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 - as are police and fire engines - but transplant vehicles are not.
The Road Traffic Reduction Act, passed in the dying days of the Tory government, requires local authorities to explain how they will reduce traffic growth below what it is currently projected to be in 2010.
Blocking the road to through traffic would present issues as the road is on a bus route.
Up and down the road, the flow of traffic looks normal, but just between the two turning flows, there's no traffic at all: it would be possible to cross the road quite safely.
Guernsey Police closed the road to traffic and set up an inland diversion.
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Rubber mats were also later laid on a railway running alongside the bypass so road traffic could use the track.
It may not have been intended that the 1991 Road Traffic Act would be used as a new, reliable funding stream by local authorities in order to help their budgets, but it certainly seems as though it is to many of us.
Tina Fallon said the latest accidents at the bridge on Derby Road were causing traffic problems along the road and train delays.
Imagine if every time you got into your car to go somewhere, hundreds of people already out on the road reported on the traffic ahead of you, and a computer somewhere processed all they did and saw and calculated the fastest route to your destination right at this instant, and even instantly updated it as you drove, when those other drivers indicated that conditions changed.
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It has sensors and systems that observe the road, process traffic situations, and respond to various unexpected developments, such as an obstacle in the road, or a sudden snowstorm that causes everything to slow down.
Campaigners have argued the road will increase traffic and carbon emissions and devastate the Combe Valley.
Temporarily holding back some of the slip-road traffic, for instance, seems to make the journey quicker for everyone in the end.
He said it would also alleviate traffic on the ring road and provide a new traffic hub outside of the railway station.
In one case, we actually went on the wrong side of the road and oncoming traffic had to pull off to the side to let us pass.
But the council told the BBC the new road would reduce traffic and it planned to limit the environmental impact of the new road by extending Witney Country Park east of the Windrush, compensating for the loss of open space to the south.
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That means looking for the best way to avoid the fatal blips in the slip-road traffic flow, and also finding out how to correct the consequences quickly if a blip does nevertheless slip through.
Earlier this year the executive set further road traffic accident targets, including the reduction of deaths and injuries by 40% and a 50% reduction in accidents involving children, by 2010.
The road will bear more traffic, the area more people (at least 6, 000 workers will be needed for the dam building at its peak) and this part of Patagonia will certainly lose its remote, lost-in-time feel.
Out of the door of their end-of-terrace house in Eston Street in Longsight, Manchester, down Hathersage Road, across Plymouth Grove, up to the Stockport Road, the A6, where traffic thundered past.
He also outlined some radical ambitions for the next decade including reductions in road traffic and the eventual replacement of the internal combustion engine.
The development of artificial intelligence-based approaches to junction control is one of many new and promising technologies that can make better use of existing urban and road capacity, while reducing the environmental impacts of road traffic.
Shortly before the incident Mr Phillips had been seen walking in the road, forcing traffic to avoid him.
Fewer vehicles on the road means less traffic congestion and less pollution.
The Home Office is carrying out a review to see how it can strengthen the law on road traffic offences, particularly where offenders cause death or injury.
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Mr Phillips, who had a rare brain condition which made him unsteady on his feet, had been seen walking in the road, causing traffic to dodge him.
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On the side of the road, with traffic whizzing by, lights flashing and you incredibly nervous, they rattle off a series of instructions that they expect you to follow to the letter.
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Consider, for example, a spate of new studies that have found a rather convincing correlation between the presence of small particulate matter (PM2.5, the fine particles blown into the air by road traffic, coal-fired power plants, industrial manufacturing, and residential wood fuel combustion) and both obesity and diabetes.
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Despite hundreds of drivers being caught in traffic jams across the capital on the way to work, the traffic on the Forth Road Bridge was flowing without major delays, according to the bridge operators and police.
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The majority of the pollution is caused by vehicles on the road and experts say reducing traffic in the cities is the best way of improving air quality.
During the winter months, the Albula mountain pass closes to car traffic and the road gets taken over by schussing wooden toboggans.
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