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...member of the Cambridge Board of Traffic and Parking, I brought this need to the attention of appropriate Harvard and Cambridge officials some five years ago. I was concerned not only about the visitors' convenience but about their safety, for I have seen numbers of pedestrians navigating across the vehicular underpass...
This summer, on the streets of big cities, high schoolers will be engaging in their usual vehicular mating ritual. Guys in long baggy shorts leaning against their Jeeps; girls strolling by in laughing pairs or trios; the pumping music on the Jeep stereos expressing everything that's unsaid. And what will be playing? Bell Biv DeVoe. Dr. Dre. And this album. Conscious of history, the Tonyies have made themselves a band of the here...
...eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile. When exposed to water in crash impacts, they have an unpleasant tendency to produce a vehicular meltdown...
According to Pimentel, the city has increased funding allotments for stop signs, traffic lights and police to restore pedestrian and vehicular safety. "Certain areas become increasingly targeted," Pimentel said...
...Ramiro de Jesus Rodriguez collided with a parent's worst nightmare: when his car hit an oncoming van, his daughter, three-year-old Veronica, pitched from her mother's arms into the windshield, suffering fatal head injuries. Last week the grieving father came before a Miami court, charged with vehicular homicide for failing to strap his child into a safety seat. The case against Rodriguez was so wrenching and his tale so sad that many potential jurors expressed outrage that he was even being put on trial...