When they were up on their pedestals — at the edge of a little concrete park the city calls a "traffic triangle" — they looked less like monuments than like the Corey, Raymond, and Daleesha whom John thought everybody knew, only metal.
-- and practical problems, not least the discovery last year that the air-conditioning system was inadequate, toilets too scarce and the layout of the entrance liable to create what Mr. Blumenthal called "a traffic jam of major proportions".
"I suppose we could have shut down D.C. with 20,000 cars," Mr. Muller said the other day, puffing on a Grenadier cigar on the back porch of his ranch house in this bucolic corner of New Jersey, "but that's called a traffic jam.
This perspective is, however, in sharp contrast to the views of other actors, who share a commitment to improve traffic safety through lower speed limits, thereby adopting what can be called a traffic safety perspective.
"It wouldn't be what I would call a high-traffic store," Mr. Simley said.
It is cruel to call a human trafficking victim a prostitute or to suggest that statutory rape is a victimless crime.
In Germany they call it a traffic light coalition: red, yellow, green".
Two men wanted in a rash of shootings that left three dead and two injured in Virginia were arrested yesterday by the New York City police after being pulled over for what investigators called a routine traffic infraction in the Bronx.
The loop is called a jughandle, a traffic formation that looks as it sounds: an unintuitive veer to the far right when you want to turn left.
I bunked next to one gentleman who introduced himself as Big D and who, many years ago, had been part of what could be called a drug trafficking ring that brought cocaine from New York City up to the Albany area.
