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[ROBINDESBOIS]

The council city is equiping the city with cycle lanes.
Is that correct?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

The city council is equipping the city with cycle lanes.
Is that correct?

Yes, but I don't quite like it and I don't know why. I would say

The city council is making prevision for cycle lanes in the city
... is providing cycle lanes in the city.

P.S. After two minutes, equipping sounds ok.

[wrholt]

Perikles's corrections are fine in the US, too.

[Don José]

to provide = to make prevision?

In the sentence "... is providing/equipping cycle lanes in the city", I understand they are already building cycle lines.

If prevision is the same that the Spanish "previsión", and that is what the dictionary says, I would think the city council hasn't started yet to build the lanes, and they are just planning a project.

I am translating "make prevision" as "hacer previsiones". Am I wrong?

[poli]

Originally Posted by Don José

to provide = to make prevision?

In the sentence "... is providing/equipping cycle lanes in the city", I understand they are already building cycle lines.

If prevision is the same that the Spanish "previsión", and that is what the dictionary says, I would think the city council hasn't started yet to build the lanes, and they are just planning a project.

I am translating "make prevision" as "hacer previsiones". Am I wrong?

not make prevision... instead make provisions for.

Prevision is a word rarely used in English.

[Don José]

So it was just a typo.
Thanks.

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Thanks everybody

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by poli

not make prevision... instead make provisions for.

Prevision is a word rarely used in English.

Originally Posted by Don José

So it was just a typo.
Thanks.

Nope, it was not a typo. Provision in the singular is quite correct and normal, at least for BrE.

'make provision' occurs 133 times in the BNC, compared with only 9 hits on 'make provisions'.

[Rusty]

@Perikles: In post #2, you wrote 'prevision'. That's the typo poli is referring to, methinks.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Rusty

@Perikles: In post #2, you wrote 'prevision'. That's the typo poli is referring to, methinks.

Ah - sorry everyone. The confusion arose from this post of Poli. I'm not sure whether his provisions is a typo when correcting my prevision:

Originally Posted by poli

not make prevision... instead make provisions for.

Prevision is a word rarely used in English.

I need new reading glasses. I always seem to note mistakes other people make, but not my own.