Sentence examples for downtown gridlock from inspiring English sources

Once limited to rush hour downtown, gridlock has now metastasised throughout the city: average motorised vehicular speed in 2014 was 11mph.

But fear of downtown gridlock is pushing back the closure and demolition of the viaduct until at least 2016, when the tunnel is supposed to be ready.Having seen the devastation in Japan, Seattle's mayor, Mike McGinn, said on March 14th that the city needs to rethink.

Spectacle-seeking city folk crossed the bridge by the thousands, parking close to get a view and effectively shutting down the sleepy downtown to gridlock.

I understand that not all stations are equal when it comes to resources, but helicopters were essential on this story with disturbances and confrontations breaking out simultaneously in different part of the city and the downtown streets gridlocked.

It forced businesses to close, put downtown traffic in gridlock, delayed East Coast freight shipments and canceled Orioles baseball games.

Are smashed windows, looting, vandalism and three hours of confrontations between police and protesters — resulting in gridlock downtown —not enough to warrant coverage?

The gridlocked downtown blocks aren't pretty, with their cracked pavements, stinking drains, seedy bars, pickpockets, rusting tin roofs and ocarina sellers.

Still, during his lower-middle-class 1950s childhood, "on a Saturday afternoon, the streets downtown would be gridlocked with cars honking hellos at pedestrians," and Russo was "happy as a clam".

When a 20-story high image of the Lombardi Trophy, nightly fireworks displays, a weeklong block party that gridlocks downtown traffic and a nonstop trumpet revelry of hype are not enough, there is only one thing left for the N.F.L. to do: host a Hollywood-style awards show, complete with red-carpet entrances for players, retired legends and celebrities.

Downtown traffic is often gridlocked, and critics blame Mr. Brown for failing to better coordinate construction projects that have torn up important thoroughfares.

The traffic funnels through Redmond's downtown, creating rush hour traffic gridlock.