"create impediments" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of someone or something creating obstacles, blocks, or hindrances in the way of doing something. For example, "The government's actions to cut funding have created many impediments for small businesses."
Rather than use traffic control to increase efficiency of movement, controls are used to create impediments that restrain traffic from sensitive areas.
Copyright laws may create impediments to digital collages like remixes and mashups, but they protect an author's right to say no to involuntary commingling of her work with others'.
Postprandial hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia (4, 5) continue to create impediments to management.
Traditional customs, poverty and lack of infrastructure combine to create impediments to school enrolment in Nepal, particularly for girls.
In their view, it is often the associated administrative processes in the EU that create impediments as they are very cumbersome and time consuming, with approvals required from multiple institutions and regulatory authorities, and compliance requirements at the EU and country levels.
"It's mostly about putting up obstacles and creating impediments," he told me.
Jeff Pash, the chief negotiator for the N.F.L., said the union was unnecessarily creating impediments with sidebar legal issues.
The goal of such an exercise isn't always to eliminate sources of irritability; sometimes, he said, the most interesting results come from creating impediments rather than removing them.
Most commonly applied in older cities whose road network does not match current needs, traffic restraint seeks to funnel traffic onto particular routes by creating impediments to movement on others.
In addition to the lack of domestic oil reserves, factors including the institutional design of cooperation between government and private industries, the early history of the upstream industry, the target area of overseas development, and the changing environment have created impediments toward achieving the targets.
They created impediments, making it difficult to produce, and then plundered what little was produced anyway.
