EVALUATION OF TAXI OPERATION IN METROPOLITAN LAGOS INTRODUCTION Lagos a former capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is located on the south western zone of the country. Lagos has about population of 18 million. The size of the state is about 300sq meter. Transportation in Lagos state is predominantly through road transport. Road transportation covers up to 92% of the state transport‚ rail and water transport cover the remaining share. Of this 92% covered by road transport‚ taxi cab takes
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Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Delhi Metro M N Murty‚ Kishore Kumar Dhavala‚ Meenakshi Ghosh and Rashmi Singh Institute of Economic Growth Delhi University Enclave Delhi-110007 India October‚ 2006 Key words: Transport‚ Air Pollution‚ Cost- benefit analysis and Shadow prices. Abstract: The growing demand for public transport in mega cities has serious effects on urban ecosystems‚ especially due to the increased atmospheric pollution and changes in land use patterns. An ecologically sustainable
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Essay Writing Question 1: The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world cities is due to the rapidly increasing number of private cars in use. Do you think the use of public transport can encourage people to use their car less? Discuss possible ways to encourage public to use the public transport. Answer 1: Air pollution is one of the contribution factors to the increments of various disease to the country. One of the major contributor to the pollution is the uses
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Your post was informative and brings up the very valid point that limited financial resources are a barrier for a cash-strapped community that may not see sidewalks as a priority. Sidewalks can promote physical activity by enabling people to walk to school‚ work or recreationally (hsph.harvard.edu‚ 2016). Limited access to sidewalks and city transportation can certainly be considered a contributor to obesity‚ but convincing people to use tax money on sidewalks‚ which are not a basic necessity like
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Fahad alshatti Core : 2 Level : 6 Traffic congestion in Kuwait The only way to reduce the amount of traffic in cities today is by reducing the need for people to travel from home for work‚ education or shopping. Nowadays traffic is a major problem in Kuwait. If we make some effort to reduce the amount of traffic then a pollution free and comfortable living will be created. With the development of science‚ now everything is possible in the world. Computers are one of the most important inventions
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Stop Censorship SPECIFIC GOAL: I want my audience to step up and stop censorship. INTRODUCTION I. (Attention getter): How are you all doing tonight? We have a problem! A problem that some of us don’t even know exist. I beg you all to pay attention to your surrounding. The life we live today is in jeopardy. What we do today‚ or better yet what we don’t do can have detrimental results in due time.
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John Lewis acknowledges the fact that many want to stop them and yet they should not and will not stop until they get the rights they deserve as he emphasizes their image of love and spirit that they want to continue to spread with their marches. For instance‚ in the beginning of the text‚ Lewis states‚ “They’re talking about slow down and stop. We will not stop. All of the forces of Eastland‚ Barnett‚ Wallace‚ and Thurmond will not stop this revolution”(para 9). As well as at the end of the paragraph
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STOP SMOKING A PERSUASIVE SPEECH SUBMITTED BY: Symon Jerremae Z. Del Carmen SUBMITTED TO: Ms. Madeleine Cabalan Hello my name is Symon and I’m here to persuade you to stop smoking. Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people around you. Breathing other people’s smoke is called passive‚ involuntary or secondhand smoking. The non-smoker breathes "side stream" smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and "mainstream" smoke that has been inhaled and
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Bus Topology http://compnetworking.about.com/od/networkdesign/a/topologies.htm http://fallsconnect.com/topology.htm Bus topology Bus topology refers to a single cable that connects all the workstations‚ servers‚ printers and other devices on the network. The cable runs from device to device by using tee connectors that plug into the network adapter cards. Each end device has a terminator on one end of the tee and a cable going out to the next device on the other end‚ while all devices in the
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to a light at the second bus stop in the town. When the bus I took got closer to the town‚ I informed the bus conductor where I will alight. He gave a node amidst a loud music from the stereo in the bus. About an hour later‚ I called the conductor to find out if we had reached the second bus stop. He immediately asked the driver to stop for me to alight after apologizing to me. He said he never heard the request I made earlier therefore we had passed the second bus stop about half an hour ago. I
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