Sentence examples for back up traffic from inspiring English sources

Volume on most highways is so heavy that a single on-ramp incident can back up traffic for hours after the cars involved have left the scene.

Our proposed method represents the ability to maintain traffic flow rate of each intersection without having a back up traffic.

While Highway 402 itself was not closed, the protest did back up traffic onto the highway causing congestion in the areas of Front Street and Christina Street.

It backed up traffic for nine miles and took about two hours for traffic to just start moving again.

There was a protest where they threw tar and nails onto a highway and backed up traffic.

President Clinton was in town, and the police had shut the Triborough Bridge, backing up traffic for miles.

With so many people crossing, he said, cars must wait before turning onto the avenue, which backs up traffic.

The bride and groom themselves were square in the middle of the road with the wedding party milling around them and backing up traffic in both directions.

Passing through the tollbooths forces drivers to slow to a crawl, backing up traffic from the Staten Island Expressway and adding to the exhaust fumes that bedevil the borough.

Security has been stepped up across the city's checkpoints, where thorough searches have backed up traffic for hours in recent days.

Usually the crowds win, making it very difficult for cars to turn and backing up traffic for blocks on the side streets.