Sentence examples for close traffic from inspiring English sources

There are thus no scientific data to support bridge management in this regard, such as when to close traffic on bridges.

The replacement was originally supposed to close traffic along I-196 over a weekend in 2004, but kept a lane closed for a full week, backing up traffic on the Interstate for 2 mile; completion of the work was delayed when human error caused a shortage of nuts and bolts.

Only an hour earlier, McCullough said, he took an early morning stroll around the White House grounds and across the Ellipse to the Washington Monument, and wondered if there were still barricades around the monument and why Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the white House was still close traffic.

The police closed traffic on Johnson and Irwin Avenues and West 230th Street, which was underwater.

But how to get the liver from Manhattan to Pittsburgh when the New York airports were closed, traffic was snarled and land lines and cellphones worked only sporadically?

However, his reputation has never recovered from the 2013 scandal around Bridgegate, when it was alleged he closed traffic lanes to spite a political enemy.

While the route is closed, traffic will have to use a temporary road over the old Wallbridge canal bridge.

Because the season has closed, traffic was light, even though it was a brilliantly sunny day with a warm sea breeze.

In Girona, people live close to traffic, and traffic noise is prevalent.

Several streets near Grand Central Terminal were closed to traffic last night, including the Park Avenue viaduct.

Large areas of the city are being closed to traffic; shopkeepers have closed early, boarding their windows.