But the plans could still face problems in the future after Hampshire County Council said an increase in traffic could impact on its roads across the border.
In the suburban city of roughly 58, 000 people, the primary concerns have focused on additional traffic and environmental impact, both of which Apple says it is addressing in the design of the campus, which is expected to get LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification as an environmentally friendly project.
Naturally the project also aims to improve traffic safety, reduce environmental impact and - thanks to smooth speed control - cut the risk of traffic tailbacks.
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"Anyone who visits the parks can see the odious and negative impact that traffic has, " he said.
Angela Piearce, EDF's head of Sizewell C development, said the impact on traffic was "a big concern locally".
Local companies may see less foot traffic but overall the impact will remain where the heart of the storm hits.
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"We do not anticipate any problems with traffic volumes as the impact statement suggests it will only be affected by 0.2%, " he said.
But the Leeds study does suggest that to have much of an impact on traffic, congestion charges would have to be quite substantial.
That mobile growth is having an impact on Traffic Acquisition Costs.
However, there have been local concerns about the impact on local traffic and existing businesses in Barry town centre.
One sector where telematics is already making a huge impact is commercial traffic.
"This is more of a media event than a real impact on the traffic of spam, " says Adam Swidler, Postini's senior manager of solutions marketing.
Essentially, they argue, because StumbleUpon users are so disproportionately active, any sample that misses some of them will vastly underrepresent their impact in driving traffic.
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Of course, some people can feel unhappy about increased disruption to normal life, security concerns, more traffic congestion and the environmental impact of big events.
The county council report looked at the impact of construction traffic on the A12 and predicted it would be slightly reduced compared to earlier studies.
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Teams worked from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. over the past few months to install the fiber optic network, choosing late night hours in order to have minimal impact on bridge traffic.
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The checkered flag is currently tied up in red tape: If ISC gets through the hoops of impact hearings on traffic and the environment, it could break ground in late 2008 and open by 2011.
Today, mobile networks suffer the most acute impact as data traffic growth, driven by huge adoption of smartphones, tablets and other client devices, is forecast to grow at a 78% compounded annual growth rate from 2011 to 2016.
Mr Stevenson said the old bridge would be used by public transport and cyclists and that the government was looking at a number of ways of mitigating the potential impact of increased traffic on Edinburgh and the surrounding towns.
Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service said the closure to traffic would have a "significant impact".
Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, sees no impact on the European mainland for now, but shifting winds may carry the ash cloud to parts of Scotland and Ireland within the next 24 hours.
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The bridge will remain open to two-way traffic flow and there will be no impact on pedestrians or cyclists.
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Under an SMS, any change in the air traffic system that could have a safety impact needs to be rigorously analyzed for hazards, the risks of those hazards thoroughly evaluated and the risks eliminated or mitigated to an acceptable level.
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They realized that bombarding people with a visual traffic jam was never going to make an impact.
If there's a silver lining to Stuckler's findings, it's that a drop in traffic deaths appears to have canceled out the impact of the added suicides on the overall mortality rate of the countries.
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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To cap it all, there has been the impact of continuing recession in Japan on traffic and revenues.
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The Conservative-led body also opposed more traffic at other Surrey airports due to the adverse impact on residents.
They are concerned about the impact on local business and the increase of traffic.
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