Sentence examples for congested blocks from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, this is one of the city's most congested blocks.

Precincts like the congested blocks around Cornelia Street became picturesque cityscapes.

A better name for the area, in fact, would be Asia City now that so many Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants have opened in the congested blocks north and south of Canal Street.

Measurements taken from roofs do not adequately disclose ground-level pollution, while ground-level measurements taken on one congested block can differ enormously from measurements taken a few blocks away where there are fewer cars.

feels a bit like Main St. Mention Madison Avenue, and most think of the boutique-congested blocks from 59th Street to 72d Street, with shops that sound like a roll call from the pages of Vogue.

His comments were in reference to the vendors' opposition to new regulations that would remove their carts from some congested city blocks.

Throughout the tumultuous afternoon, the station's radio journalists reporting on the move via cellphones called to indicate which roads were heavily congested, which were blocked, and which were seeing only sporadic traffic.

In effect the image is a flattened aerial map of a highly congested celestial city of apartment blocks and pocket parks, with a Jain savior-deity presiding at its center.

Standing in the commercial heart of Bangkok, with its gleaming shopping malls, towering office blocks and habitually congested traffic, it is hard to imagine that just five years ago tanks rolled down the streets, and a coup was under way.

Individual districts receive fewer of the benefits of a larger metropolitan population (jobs and taxes) than their costs (blocked views and congested streets).

A spokeswoman for the Colorado Transportation Department, Rebecca White, said pollution in the area would generally remain the same after the expansion, despite more cars on the road, because new vehicles emit lower levels of pollutants, the road would be less congested and the park would block some of the vehicle exhaust.