According to traffic surveys and field observations, traffic authorities have come up with a desirable traffic distribution over the west-north river crossings to avoid any major gridlock in the AM peak hour.
If a couple of accidents create major gridlock in Denver, Philadelphia, or Richmond on Election Day, that will hurt Obama.
"We did not have any serious major gridlock situations".
But the authorities predict major gridlock today and tomorrow, as the three-day gathering of world leaders begins in earnest.
President Obama's visit here in August 2010, for example, forced the closing of a major thoroughfare, unleashing gridlock on the entire west side of the city.
Some critics say Mr. Silver's stubbornness at the negotiating table is a major reason for the gridlock and paralysis that characterizes the Legislature.
Renzi says the reforms will make it easier to pass legislation by dramatically restricting the powers of the senate, a major source of political gridlock.
A major break in the gridlock came Thursday when a bloc of Mr. Berlusconi's People of Liberties party made clear it would back an emergency government of national unity led by a non-politician, which would require a majority in Parliament.
In a few months, probably in November, Italians will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on a constitutional reform that Renzi says will make it easier to pass legislation by dramatically restricting the powers of the senate, a major source of political gridlock.
Voters approved two measures which will generate $150bn in the next decades – a sum exceeding Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, according to some estimates – to replace traffic gridlock, a major source of heat and pollution, with cleaner transport and shaded, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks.
