Sentence examples for causing severe traffic from inspiring English sources

A 15-mile stretch of the M1 motorway was shut after the blast, causing severe traffic delays.

Many customers abandoned their vehicles in the middle of a major road near the store and walked, causing severe traffic jams, the police said.

Many major downtown arteries closed starting on Wednesday in preparation for the races, causing severe traffic congestion during the work week.

Some two million, according to the AFP news agency, cross the Bosphorus every day via just two bridges, causing severe traffic congestion.

In Los Angeles, 200 protesters blocked traffic on Wilshire Boulevard for hours, causing severe traffic jams around Hancock Park and the Miracle Mile.

The bridge was closed to all motor vehicles other than buses while repairs were carried out, causing severe traffic congestion; it eventually reopened on 16 January 2006.

Also, a recent study by the New York City Department of Transportation concluded that totally closing the park to cars would cause severe traffic tie-ups at Park Circle, at the park's southwest corner.

This caused severe traffic and parking congestion, but no doubt a short economic boom, for the town of La Plaines des Cafres.

Those closures, which caused severe traffic jams, were apparently a form of political retaliation on the part of members of Christie's staff toward the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

The Society held a concert in one of the former cement mines, the Widow Jane Mine, around 2002; the concert caused severe traffic and presented a fire hazard, and the society was subsequently sued by the town.

The entrance will remain closed until the over-height vehicle is removed from the freeway, sometimes causing severe delays for all traffic.