Police operations to evict unlicensed merchants have provoked violent clashes and traffic blockades.
The clashes disrupted traffic, forced the partial closure of the General Osório metro station in Ipanema and led to power cuts in some neighbourhoods before order was restored.
Instead of the imaginative, integrated development plan drawn up by Charles Correa, the renowned Mumbai-based architect, the former mill-hub of Lalbaug-Parel is a soulless cram of skyscrapers, mall-to-mall carpeting and snarled traffic clashing with the tenements housing the dispossessed worker families.
There have been numerous clashes with police, traffic chaos, subway evacuations and disruptions to the academic calendar.
Smith's seven-year N.B.A. résumé reads like a flashing caution sign: suspensions, benchings, clashes with his coach, traffic accidents and an accusation, in 2009, that he was using gang diction on his Twitter account.
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Thousands of protesters across the country flooded streets, squares, bridges and banks on Thursday, snarling traffic and often clashing with the police in a show of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, two months to the day after the demonstration began.
Traffic studies have attributed congestion in the southbound lanes to the number of lanes merging from Highways 401 and 404 into the parkway and the lane changing that results from merging traffic from Highway 401 clashing with exiting traffic to the nearby York Mills exit.
He said he was amazed by the sight of pilgrims crawling to the site in the middle of traffic, in a seeming clash between modernity and ancient tradition.
Given the difficulty of moving about the city, beset by traffic jams and violent clashes, it was impossible to get an accurate count.
The city council originally said it wanted to avoid clashes to prevent parking issues and traffic congestion.
