The systems will also recognize objects like overpasses and road signs.
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Bridges and overpasses along interstates 29, 35 and 94 could be icy.
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The freeway is blocked by collapsing overpasses, none of them seismically upgraded.
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On my drive to work I see people living underneath the highway overpasses.
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The most dynamic gradients are the overpasses and the billboards advertising seed financing.
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The report did not say where the dams and overpasses would be built.
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They can't really have set overpasses purposefully low to keep minorities away from beaches.
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Tent encampments have sprouted seemingly everywhere — under freeway overpasses, in parks, on street corners.
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It is not uncommon for motorists on highways to encounter banners hung from highway overpasses.
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Cars lower than about 7 feet can drive beneath it, and it fits beneath overpasses.
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It's hard to say, "You go, girl," when girls are hurling bodies from freeway overpasses.
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Houthi rebels could hide mobile missile launchers anywhere from inside culverts to beneath highway overpasses.
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Some sleep in cars parked near V.A. facilities, under freeway overpasses or in public parks.
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ArtLifting is not a charity, and she is not a caseworker seeking artists living under overpasses.
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If you're driving, stop your vehicle in an area clear of trees, buildings, overpasses or wires.
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In normal weather, they sleep on the streets, in tunnels and overpasses, and in the subway.
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They pulled down pedestrian overpasses onto the highway to block tanker trucks from reaching the plant.
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For most people, overpasses and bridges are simply a way of getting from one place to another.
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As the Bronco traveled under highway overpasses, crowds of people cheered Simpson on with shouts and signs.
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Firefighters from many departments stood on streets and on freeway overpasses, saluting as the procession passed by.
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Gene Yaw urging him to "please" get legislation passed to require fencing on highway overpasses, PennLive reported.
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More than 30 lives have been lost in other accidents involving overpasses over the past two years.
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"We bring [food] out to wherever the homeless are, under the overpasses, behind the freeways," Boschetto says.
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With nowhere else to go, the homeless often set up encampments on sidewalks and beneath highway overpasses.
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Two overpasses — mile 5.3 — and we're in Glen Park, a residential neighborhood that feels like a village.
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If there is none, you should always avoid going under overpasses or bridges (they can create wind tunnels).
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Several long overpasses that extend more than a mile have been built in Kolkata in the past decade.
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The crossings resemble overpasses and underpasses built for humans and cars, but they're meant for animal use only.
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Marr has also been known to hang banners with racist messages on highway overpasses, according to the newspaper.
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"At night there will still be possibilities of refreezing over bridges and overpasses on the roads," he warned.
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I see it carved onto the sides of highway overpasses and on T-shirts and in magazine ads.
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A bill that would require protective fencing on all new overpasses cleared the state Senate earlier this month.
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Highways and overpasses were draped around and through it, old streets widened and squares turned into car parks.
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Roads will be slick, bridges/ramps/overpasses will be icy, collisions will increase and traffic will be challenging.
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Every evening armies of homeless Angelinos and migrants set up tents beneath highway overpasses and in empty parking lots.
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Some, armed with rifles, took positions on freeway overpasses and aimed their weapons in the direction of federal agents.
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Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell told People he believed the teens had thrown items from overpasses multiple times before.
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"All day on Sunday we went around rescuing people out of high water stranded on overpasses," he told CNN.
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On a drive through its traffic-clogged streets, fresh views of concrete highways and pedestrian overpasses greet the eye.
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To do that, though, engineers will have to build special overpasses or underpasses and hope the predators take notice.
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Reaching the property is surprisingly difficult; the tower stands amid a welter of on-ramps, off-ramps, and overpasses.
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Overpasses and underpasses for highways, and towering concrete bridges for cars and trains, claimed thousands of miles of open space.
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In addition to many homes being destroyed, overpasses for the 101 freeway were flooded with runoff water from Montecito Creek.
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The letter prompted outcry from homeless advocates who pointed out that the overpasses give homeless people refuge from the rain.
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The 101 examples — including accordions, pedestrian overpasses and the Hostess Twinkie — demonstrate the appeal of jagged edges and racy curves.
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Her apartment was in a dangerous part of town she called ''rapist heaven,'' surrounded by parking lots and highway overpasses.
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Icy patches are developing on untreated surfaces, from bridges and overpasses to stairs and sidewalks, mainly northwest of the city.
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Along the 11-mile route, spontaneous tributes erupted – flower petals were sprinkled from overpasses, and simple bouquets were tossed from bridges.
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If you're driving, pull over to the side of the road and stop (preferably not under any overpasses or power lines).
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Like, heights that some people wouldn't consider heights: walking over overpasses, for instance, or the top floor of the Guggenheim Museum.
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Underpass Park transformed derelict and unused space beneath several overpasses into a network of parks, trails, skateboarding ramps, and public art.
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Any New Yorker who has braved the walkways beneath city overpasses or rail lines knows just how unbecoming they can seem.
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Graffiti writers I knew, for instance, reveled in spray-painting overpasses as motorists passed by, unable to quickly alert the police.
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They devise temporary homes under tarpaulins and tin panels on sidewalks or under street overpasses, or rent cheap rooms in slums.
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These include the posting on the internet of videos showing beheadings and torture, and hanging the bodies of victims from highway overpasses.
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Drug dealers hang out under the newly created BRT overpasses, resulting in an uptick of addicts that didn't used to be there.
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The administration spent years—and millions of dollars—building vehicle flyovers, despite experts contesting these overpasses transfer clots to a different spot.
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There are overpasses to nowhere; there are construction sites that look like Caterpillar sales lots as well as actual Caterpillar sales lots.
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Adda is east of all that, under a National Guard recruiting office, surrounded by a thicket of railroad tracks and highway overpasses.
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While there have been efforts to protect the journey, such as highway overpasses and antelope-friendly fences, some new barriers are looming.
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None anticipated that a battle over citations issued under overpasses and in the woods would reach the highest court in the country.
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The South Carolina Emergency Management Division warned motorists to drive carefully on bridges, overpasses and remote roadways, which could quickly freeze over.
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Their promotional video (below) exhibits scenes of highway overpasses, shoes strung from telephone lines, graffiti-clad aqueducts, tattoos, and a celebration of diversity.
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Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a city councilor, said the expansion of encampments from downtown to freeway overpasses throughout the city had helped spur action.
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The car handles well at speeds of up to 75 mph, taking curves, passing underneath bulky overpasses, and braking seamlessly for merging vehicles.
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Dozens of protesters were seen making their escapes by climbing down ropes dangled from motorway overpasses before being driven away by waiting motorbikes.
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The political hypocrisy over the years is not limited to a fringe group draping their spray painted "Impeach Obama" bedsheets from highway overpasses.
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Louise, the Oregon-reared, Düsseldorf-schooled artist at the nexus of this transcontinental saga, traffics in installations amid highway overpasses and nuclear plants.
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Louise, the Oregon-reared, Düsseldorf-schooled artist at the nexus of this transcontinental saga, traffics in installations amid highway overpasses and nuclear plants.
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I mean, when they show her, the California leader, the pictures of those homeless encampments under overpasses in California, she calls them California condos.
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But practitioners, known as 'pichadores', say that will do little to dissuade them from climbing high-rises and highway overpasses to leave their mark.
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I do not want them to become inured to the sight of people sleeping on sidewalks, under freeway overpasses and on bus stop benches.
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Used needles, drug paraphernalia, and trash are common sights lining the streets and sidewalks of the downtown core area, under our bridges, and freeway overpasses.
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Last month, thousands of mourners crowded New York streets and overpasses as McDonald's body traveled from his home on Long Island to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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Government regulators need to promulgate public safety ordinances to restrict in a content-neutral manner banners from non-public forums, especially highway overpasses and rooftops.
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His body was carried in a motorcade down the mountain and 130 miles east to Charlotte, as thousands waved farewell from overpasses along the interstate.
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The nearby overpasses are lined with cars and trucks since word spread quickly that they were the only place to get cellphone or internet service.
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Austin, Texas (CNN)Tent cities emerged across Austin this summer after the city effectively made it legal for homeless residents to camp under highway overpasses.
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Hundreds of people lined the roads and overpasses to pay their respects as Patriot Guard riders in full force escorted Don's body to the funeral home.
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It includes highway ramps, overpasses and bridges that allow automakers to test self-driving cars at high speeds and in more complex environments than at MCity.
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The complex, at 2222 17th Street, takes up an entire block in a neighborhood of warehouses and tech company offices, and is crisscrossed by freeway overpasses.
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Dams and overpasses would be built to mitigate the disruption caused by flooding, Minister of Infrastructure Development Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Nuaimi was quoted as saying.
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Once an impoverished city of 232 million set between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, Zhengzhou now boasts a gleaming downtown skyline and a cascade of freeway overpasses.
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Ms. Budd's husband, Randy, killed himself last year, shortly after sending a message to a Pennsylvania state senator urging him to pass a fencing law for overpasses.
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But imagine if New York City had no highways, becoming a place where we'd get around on underpasses, overpasses and pedestrian paths, by foot or by bicycle.
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The peaceful demonstration became known for the vibrant street art that took over walls and overpasses, and old revolutionary songs and poems sung by protesters of all ages.
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National Guard and US Army Corps of Engineers bulldozers, stationed in the area and already at work, are clearing emergency routes across surface streets, avoiding overpasses and bridges.
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"Nova" explores "connectivity conservation," in which tunnels, overpasses and protected land corridors allow wildlife in parks like the Serengeti, in Tanzania, and Yellowstone to migrate around manmade obstacles.
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It is so violent that members leave piles of bodies in streets and hanging from overpasses in Mexico, and they fill the city of Guadalajara with mass graves.
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As the procession traversed multiple counties across Southern California, ending at Iverson's home in San Diego, firefighters and other first responders gathered on freeway overpasses to pay their respects.
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Scores of protesters, fearing maximum sentences of 1-years for rioting, managed to escape the campus by crawling through underground tunnels or climbing from overpasses on to waiting motorbikes.
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Five Michigan teenagers accused of killing a construction worker after they threw a rock from a highway overpass that crashed through his windshield had allegedly hurled objects from overpasses before.
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"In the last 30 days there were a number of incidents on all of the [local] overpasses and one in Saginaw, which happened within the last 10 days," Pickell says.
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Then Mexico watched in horror as human remains and beheaded bodies began to appear in public places, hanging from bridges and overpasses, even tossed on a dance floor in Michoacán.
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"If teenagers wanted to be like adults they wouldn't be shoplifting nail polish from drugstores or hanging off overpasses to spray I LOVE YOU LIƨA on the arch," she wrote.
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Mexico's notoriously ruthless drug gangs have regularly hanged victims from bridges and highway overpasses in places like Mexico City, but it is unusual for bodies to be seen near tourist areas.
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Further, 88 percent of respondents supported the construction of more wildlife overpasses and underpasses on roads and highways in order to facilitate safe passage for wildlife while reducing collisions with vehicles.
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A five-acre temporary campsite established by the state has seen little traffic while tents and makeshift shelters continue to pop up beneath overpasses almost as soon as they are cleared.
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As I covered the digital world of Freeways with my shoddily drawn roads, it became a very messy "Spaghetti Junction," a knot of cloverleafs, whiplash intersections, harrowing overpasses, and questionably safe mergers.
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Many, like me, head southeast to the Rose City Golf Course, just north of where the I-2122 freeway trench (now blocked by collapsed overpasses) cuts through the middle of East Portland.
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At a recent city council meeting proponents of the plan, entitled "MoveNY," called for a $2.75 toll—the same as a subway swipe—on those bridges, and lowered tolls on other overpasses.
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Hong Kong has seen many different kinds of creative expressions sprouting in recent weeks, including several "Lennon walls" appearing in residential neighborhoods, where protesters write political messages on subways, tunnels and overpasses.
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White supremacists are increasingly hanging banners in public places, such as from highway overpasses and rooftops, to promote their views, according to a report released on Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League.
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He warned to be especially cautious on bridges, viaducts and overpasses because they are exposed on the top and bottom, allowing them to cool faster and create conditions conducive to black ice.
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Sinkholes are a constant presence across the country, and parts of highways and overpasses in the capital have collapsed into the earth, in some cases dragging cars and people down with them.
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On Sundays, public parks and overpasses in Hong Kong are packed with small groups of Indonesian workers, who sing, play cards, practice martial arts or join Islamic study circles known as pengajian.
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Since the rock attack, which crushed part of Sharon Budd's skull and caused her to lose the use of an eye, Budd had fought for legislation requiring fencing be installed on new overpasses.
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The majority of the nation's homeless spend their nights in shelters (65 percent), but nearly 200,000 (35 percent) are considered unsheltered — sleeping on sidewalks, beneath overpasses, in abandoned buildings and on park benches.
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He said you can think of them as a virtual network of lanes, overpasses, on-ramps and off-ramps in the sky that dynamically adjust to where the air traffic needs to flow.
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The intense media scrutiny of the tent encampments near San Francisco's highway overpasses similarly reveals complex, competing narratives about the relativity of stability and vulnerability and the differences between policy and lived experience.
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The flag-draped remains of firefighter Cory Iverson, 2620, were driven out of the fire zone in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, in a hearse as his comrades saluted from roadsides and overpasses.
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Encampments are still centered in downtown's Skid Row, but many more tents, shopping carts, and makeshift shelters are popping up on sidewalks, in parks, near overpasses, and under and over bridges throughout the city.
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The Chinese trade group officials said their industry's development had been driven by domestic demand that was expected to grow as the metal was used in new applications such as railroad cars and overpasses.
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Assuming these places are non-public forums, the next question is whether under the Supreme Court's test it would be reasonable for the speech-regulator to not allow banners from highway overpasses and rooftops.
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"Helmeted troops, armed with M‐1 rifles, were stationed in pairs on some overpasses, while other guardsmen rumbled along on patrol in quarter‐ton trucks," reported The New York Times on May 1, 1970.
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More than 100 pro-democracy protesters made daring escapes from a Hong Kong university campus besieged by police Monday night, crawling through narrow underground tunnels or climbing from overpasses and fleeing on waiting motorbikes.
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They can sit in their little castles in the sky while the rest of us in California have to, you know, go near overpasses, which, you know, underneath our encampments buffeted by hills of feces.
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Noise is also a social justice issue: The loudest, most unwanted sounds — like those of industrial areas, highway overpasses, airports, and trains — ring out in the lowest-income neighborhoods, often populated by communities of color.
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One of the best feelings in the game is walking down the walkways to get across to different production floors and then looking up and seeing the belts and other overpasses criss-cross the gaps.
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Avoid dangerous places Under highway overpasses -- Sheltering under a bridge may seem like a good option if you are stuck in your car, but the narrow passage can act like a funnel and amplify winds.
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Every corner of this vast city is laid out for the convenience of automobiles; every new building project creates more parking spots, or even pedestrian overpasses and underpasses so as not to inconvenience car drivers.
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On a busy street in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Chestnut pointed to pedestrian overpasses as infrastructure that appears to be designed for those who walk but more often inconveniences them while allowing cars to speed on through.
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The five teenagers accused of killing a Michigan man by allegedly throwing a rock from an overpass had allegedly thrown items from overpasses multiple times before the fatal incident, Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell tells PEOPLE.
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Across Southern California, the homeless live in tent encampments clustered on corners from Venice to the San Fernando Valley, and in communities sprouting under highway overpasses or in the dry bed of the Los Angeles River.
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A notice sent out Tuesday by Abbott's office informs residents that camps under city overpasses and bridges will be cleared out by the state Department of Transportation (DOT) and police next week, local NBC affiliate KXAN reported.
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After Sharon's accident, Randy worked with an Ohio state legislator to get an Ohio Department of Transportation policy in place the requires protective fencing on new overpasses and ones undergoing significant renovations, according to the Associated Press.
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Forecasters warned that ice accumulation from the storm could be more than half an inch (1 cm), creating slick roadways especially on bridges and overpasses, and possibly causing scattered power outages across the region, the service said.
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This could be done by keeping migration routes free of development, building or retrofitting highway underpasses or overpasses for wildlife passage and seeing that seasonal habitat is managed in a way to minimize stress on wildlife populations.
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But counting down all the similarities — deadly arson attacks, bodies left piled in heaps or hung from overpasses, massacres at parties, beheading videos posted on social media — the parallels between now and then are all too clear.
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You go to New Orleans, Syracuse, Staten Island, Seattle, or Los Angeles, and you can see those distinct lines that have been drawn and the highways and overpasses that are still there — that are actually walls between people.
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For example, one free speech issue likely to be tested soon in the courts is whether the First Amendment protects extremist groups who seek to communicate their vile messages by hanging large banners from highway overpasses and rooftops.
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For the pronghorn, these included the first migration corridor ever designated on Forest Service land, conservation easements and fence removals on private land, and new overpasses installed by the Wyoming Department of Transportation to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
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Since then, dozens of homeless men and women have built up encampments just a few yards away from her house, and at the local train station, and beneath the overpasses of the freeways that crisscross her neighborhood near Watts.
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At the time, she was an M.F.A. candidate at Yale working on her now-iconic series "Girl Pictures" (1997-2002), staged portraits of adolescent girls cast as runaways wandering beneath highway overpasses and mucking around in roadside drainage ditches.
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As I watched, I heard references to people on roofs, people getting into attics, people wandering around on overpasses, people not being allowed to have guns in the Convention Center, which was going to be used as a shelter.
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The vengeful scheme is introduced in Dietland's series premiere, when viewers get a few stray glimpses at a cabal of masked young women who are prone to kidnapping men, holding guns to their heads, and throwing them off of highway overpasses.
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That is according to a study published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, which used an infrared spectrometer on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite to detect methane leaking near Aliso Canyon on three separate overpasses during December 2016 and January 2016.
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The National Blue Alert system will be similar to AMBER Alerts -- which broadcast instances of child abduction via cell phones and other wireless devices as well as on freeway overpasses -- and will operate nationally and be managed by the DOJ.
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Encampments in the notoriously high-rent California city hug busy thoroughfares, where people seek shelter under overpasses and reside in not-yet-developed slivers of land—until the city or someone else inevitably evicts them, sending them anywhere but here.
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My dad, however, doesn't have Facebook, so I am at the mercy of this bar TV. My mom's giant family is also from the Corpus Christi area, and I recognize many of the underwater overpasses and neighborhoods on the screen.
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He thought the most recent surge might be related to the focus on closing homeless encampments under overpasses, a move that District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener—who represents the Castro neighborhood—endorsed recently in a letter to six city officials.
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" In November 53, Johnson, as Senate majority leader, opened Senate hearings into why the United States was lagging and warned Americans, "Soon, the Russians will be dropping bombs on us from space like kids dropping rocks onto cars from freeway overpasses.
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Bridges in the area are impassable, especially those overpasses over the I-205 freeway that runs in a north-south trench through the eastern part of the city, and low-lying roadways are flooded by broken sewer and water mains.
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Austrian photographer Gisela Erlacher focuses in particular on everyday life beneath the overpasses, rarely showing the elevated traffic, and sometimes even cutting off the frame so all you get is a huge concrete leg stabbing into the ground, suggesting the monolith above.
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The proposal was submitted to the community-based public arts initiative the Mile of Murals, which launched in 2007 with the aim of soliciting 19 large-scale murals — 10 block-long walls, seven viaduct walls, and two overpasses — from artists and collectives.
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Homeless Czar Sam Dodge, speaking specifically about the encampments under the overpasses along Cesar Chavez Street, told me that when he worked with DPW, they would come in periodically and ask the homeless residents to leave their sites for a few hours.
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MICHIGAN TEENS DENIED BOND IN DEATH LINKED TO ROCK THROWING OFF OVERPASS "In the last 30 days there were a number of incidents on all of the [local] overpasses and one in Saginaw, which happened within the last 10 days," Pickell said.
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Episode 3 gave us a deeper look into Negan's world, and hidden between all the dog food sandwiches, walkers raining down from overpasses, naked Daryls and repeats of that earworm "Easy Street" song, there was one moment I could not stop thinking about.
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"All day long on Sunday we went around and rescued people out of high water standing on overpasses, these type of things," McIngvale told CNN, noting that he and his team had 24-foot delivery trucks that could easily get through the waters.
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Mr. Kilbane originally set out to create a portrait of the highway without ever showing the road itself, but quickly found his camera drawn to the columns and overpasses, each inch of highway imposed willfully on a landscape that was complete without it.
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About 90,000 people, or 70 percent of those who are homeless in the state, sleep in tents or makeshift shacks they erect on sidewalks and under highway overpasses; by comparison, 5 percent of the 92,000 people in New York State are unsheltered.
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Stretching far up the Avenue de Flandre in the city's working-class 226th Arrondissement and bunched under nearby subway overpasses at the Jaurès and Stalingrad Métro stations, the enclaves of pup tents are islands of misery in the midst of first-world prosperity.
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People crowd overpasses to cheer the Bronco; when reporters ask why they're cheering O.J., a man says, "We're not cheering for O.J., we're booing the L.A.P.D." Is it possible that Los Angeles is the epicenter of the civil rights racequake that radicalized a generation?
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Here's an aerial shot from 2006: Spaghetti Junction was long unsafe — several points required headlong switching of lanes to catch exits and many of the overpasses no longer met federal safety standards — and, like many urban freeways, parts were reaching the end of their lifespan.
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Now my eye constantly picks out elevated-train girders, footbridges, drawbridge houses, pipelines, fuel tanks, lampposts, window gratings, fence bars, guardrails, and I-beams holding up interstate overpasses, all in their own versions of Statue of Liberty green, and they fasten me to the city.
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Atila Novoselac, the building engineer who runs the house, drove me there, pointing out the local landmarks before parking next to a jumble of weathered concrete chunks, which a structural-engineering lab was using to study the aging of pillars that support bridges and highway overpasses.
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Officials have not yet given a cause for the tragedy, but India's railway minister, Piyush Goyal, announced a review of the safety and capacity of all such spots in Mumbai's suburban rail network, saying it would be a top priority to widen and repair overpasses where needed.
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I captured highlights of things that might be boring for others, like going under overpasses as you can see in the clip above, and when I was riding behind a Tesla for an extended period (I thought of the Horizon as my envy-cam while I was doing this).
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While UBER and Waymo (formerly the Google self-driving car project) continue to conduct long mileage testing around the globe, Mcity is tackling the most difficult autonomous driving situations head on at its 32-acre closed testing facility, such as how to handle blind turns, pedestrian crossings, and highway overpasses.
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Lastly, new research conducted by the Center for Large Landscape Conservation and commissioned by The Pew Charitable Trusts found a net financial benefit from building wildlife overpasses and underpasses in spots where collisions occur regularly — with the savings that result from avoided accidents exceeding the costs of constructing the crossings.
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Since July 2014, Italy has been hit with the collapse of a viaduct in Sicily, overpasses in Lombardy and the Adriatic highway, and part of a highway bypass in Piedmont — a sequence of "preoccupying regularity," Antonio Occhiuzzi, the director of the National Research Council's Institute for Construction Technology, wrote on its website.
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The next day, to escape the rain, we hopped one of the old trams and coasted along the busy waterfront all the way to North Point, where we watched thousands of maids from Indonesia and the Philippines picnic wherever there was shelter, under bridges and overpasses clogged with their day-off celebrations.
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Employees spoke of despairing colleagues who hanged themselves, set themselves on fire, or threw themselves out of windows, under trains and off bridges and highway overpasses as the company deliberately pushed them into roles for which they were unsuited — sales jobs for technicians, for instance — to try to reduce the work force.
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Beyond the dronestagrams that look like stock imagery for motivational posters, the book's best moments—such as contributor JackFreer's eerie shot of a nuclear testing site—bring to mind the work of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian photographer who has documented from the air the rusting hulls of disused ships, highway overpasses, and suburban sprawl.
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Visitors today will find a city that seems at first glance unlovable: One of the most famous songs about the city — and an example of a Recife music genre called manguebeat, or mangrove beat — is called "Rivers, Bridges and Overpasses" ("Rios, Pontes e Overdrives"), and that's what Recife's center looks like, to a large extent.
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Stories are shape-shifters, infinite and immortal: They've been painted on the walls of Chauvet Cave and pressed into clay tablets; sung by griots in the streets of Old Mali and cut into the Peruvian desert; danced and drummed and whispered, spun like spider-silk across the Atlantic and painted on the undersides of overpasses.
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The construction of wildlife overpasses and underpasses along Colorado State Highway 22019 resulted in an 89 percent drop in vehicle-wildlife collisions in the 2017-2018 winter compared to the average over the five years before construction, while allowing 16,238 mule deer safe passage across the road during that winter, according to research led by the Golden, Colo.
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Work is well underway on a much larger one 10 miles to the east in Ypsilanti, on the site of a factory that built bombers during World War II. Called the American Center for Mobility, it will cover 325 acres and allow testing of autonomous vehicles at highway speeds and in complex roadways like overpasses and exit ramps.
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Once mostly associated with Skid Row, the vast tent encampment in downtown Los Angeles, the homeless are now spread out across the city, setting up tents under highway overpasses and moving into affluent neighborhoods like Bel-Air, where a wildfire that threatened the area's mega-mansions was sparked last year by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment.
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READ: Hong Kong protesters escaped a besieged campus by crawling through tunnels and climbing down from overpasses During his detention, he said he was placed in a so-called "tiger chair"– a metal chair with bars preventing the occupant from moving — and forced to do stress tests, such as squatting or holding himself in a chair pose, for hours on end.
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Nobody much likes nation-building: not libertarians, who prefer fewer foreign entanglements and a less aggressive foreign policy; not Trumpkin populist-nationalists, who believe that most interactions with dirty foreigners (trade, immigration, etc.) are insalubrious; not the Left, which at the Bernie Sanders end of the spectrum believes that the U.S. military is a force for evil in the world and which at the Barack Obama end of the spectrum would simply prefer to see all those dollars going to Afghanistan spent fixing overpasses in East St. Louis; and, increasingly, not the main stream of Republicans, either, whose Szechuan buffet of a political ideology now seems to incorporate a little taste of all of the above.
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