Sentence examples for close roads from inspiring English sources

We are providing support – small local grants for organisers, help to close roads and bundles of free bunting.

Such alarms might trigger gates to close roads on a mountain pass, for instance, or alert search and rescue teams.

This little-known process, mired in the jargon of highways and transport legislation, allows local authorities to close roads permanently to allow new developments to be built.

To cope with the expected flood of people traveling there, village officials were preparing to close roads around the wedding venue starting on Friday.

New Jersey declared a state of emergency, allowing the authorities to close roads and make evacuations as necessary, The Associated Press reported.

Local councils have received more than 8,000 applications to close roads for street parties, suggesting that 2002's passivity is fading.

Bridges were to be closed; roads, too.

With floodwaters closing roads and highways, that trip has now stretched to 140 miles.

Flash flooding closed roads across Alabama and trapped motorists in rapidly rising waters.

Gloucestershire county council has closed roads up to two-and-a-half miles around the slope.

Around the Port Hills, homes perched on the hillside gave way while fissures and landslips closed roads.