Sentence examples for blocked sidewalks from inspiring English sources

The city has been handing out tickets for double-parked trucks and blocked sidewalks.

Moreover, the streets can be deadly, especially for pedestrians forced off blocked sidewalks.

Residents have complained about blocked sidewalks and open garbage bags spilling flowers, while merchants complain that parking and traffic problems have made it prohibitively difficult for customers to visit their stores.

Some residents and businesses in Clinton say that the overnight storage areas, in which independent sidewalk vendors rent space for carts and food, have brought trash, vermin and blocked sidewalks to their area.

These "students" congregated and blocked sidewalks and entrances to facilities.

Brick-and-mortar shops had raised concerns about blocked sidewalks, trash and unfair competition.

Among the horrors Frank cannot abide are the hordes of the overweight in flip-flops blocking sidewalks: "Each one upholding our most sacred law:/The people's right to suck a soda straw".

Trying to resolve one of Mexico City's oldest and most intractable problems, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard sent more than 1,000 police officers in riot gear into the historic center to keep street vendors from setting up stands and blocking sidewalks.

There are at least 20 bed-and-breakfasts downtown or nearby, no neon signs, no stoplights and, except for the plants and waist-high pink ceramic flamingos that the Acme supermarket features in front, no obstructions blocking sidewalks.

And later that afternoon, the moment that someone smashed an apartment building's windows on the Upper East Side, the police wrestled a suspect to the ground and later arrested an additional 60 or so people for blocking sidewalks.

They may arrive no earlier than 9 p.m., must leave by 7 a.m., and must abide by other rules, like no foul language, loud music or bedding, and must not block sidewalks.