Sentence examples for dire traffic from inspiring English sources

They are making similarly reassuring noises about the metro extension that will be needed to ease the usually dire traffic on the main road from the city centre to the Olympic sites.

In an attempt to ease the dire traffic congestion and pollution that plague the Chinese capital, the planners want the subway network to be expanded almost fivefold from its current length of 72 miles.

But Rio State is responsible for the MetrôRio extension that is already very late and is now due for completion mere days before the start of the Games, when it will be needed to alleviate the usually dire traffic to Barra de Tijuca, the site of the athletes village and Olympic park.

But as one of the two major routes connecting the domesticated landscapes of the south-east of England with the wilder West Country, it is just as famous for its dire traffic jams, which begin as the highway narrows to a single lane near Stonehenge.

You have heard the dire signals about horrendous traffic in World Cup host cities such as Sao Paulo, and your skepticism meter started beeping.

Start pushing against this plan before you are ever in dire need of the traffic this plan will generate.

Despite the union's dire predictions, the air-traffic control system in the United States did not shut down and returned to normal operations within months.

The question has become a hotly debated point in Tehran in recent months, as the city grapples with two truly dire problems: air pollution and traffic congestion, both some of the world's worst.

How dire has the Fort Lee, N.J., traffic jam scandal known as "BridgeGate" gotten for Gov. Chris Christie?

Brazil — "The stories of the great majority of children affected by HIV/AIDS and of street children are of marginality: social exclusion, family abandonment, dire poverty, favela life, drug trafficking and consumption, alcohol, parental abuse, sexual exploitation, and ultimately death".

The traffic situation is so dire that office workers who commute by car have been told to work from home.