Sentence examples for congestion up from inspiring English sources

Motorway congestion up by 50 to 250% - while the CBI estimates congestion costs to business rising to over £20 billion a year.

Meanwhile, in Hull, an increase in traffic congestion – up by a fifth since 2001 – combined with reduced public budgets for road repair and cycle path provision has made some streets no-go areas for bikes.

Employers and the union have been locked in bitter negotiations for a new West Coast dockworkers contract for nearly nine months — a period that has seen debilitating congestion up and down the West Coast.

The union says such industry-wide changes have caused the congestion up and down the coast, although employers contend that the union created the problem at other ports and made it worse in San Pedro Bay by withholding skilled crane operators.

#1 Mall Of America in Minnesota saw congestion up 29.6% while traffic increased a staggering 57.1% at #7 shopping center The Woodfield Mall in Illinois.

In an effort to improve the pricing mechanism, and, to introduce real-time variable pricing, Singapore's LTA together with IBM, ran a pilot from December 2006 to April 2007, with a traffic estimation and prediction tool (TrEPS), which uses historical traffic data and real-time feeds with flow conditions from several sources, in order to predict the levels of congestion up to an hour in advance.

Strangely enough, the congestion clears up by the following day.

Floating cities could also be a practical solution to overpopulation and congestion, opening up the possibility of more space for civilian housing and public buildings.

Congestion cleared up when Mayor Giuliani used his special emergency powers to restrict bridge and tunnel crossings into Manhattan below Sixtieth Street.

According to the Partnership for New York City, excess congestion shaves up to $4 billion a year off the region's economy, and as a result 52,000 jobs are not created.

From 2.35pm onwards, Marshall said "a tremendous congestion" built up, in which people were "pushing" from the back, and it was becoming "an extremely worrying situation".