Transport gets snarled up at rush hour.
Yet Mr. Walter ultimately ignores his own wisdom and gets snarled up in a thriller plot of his own.
The aim of the map is to alert others to places to avoid on the road and rail networks at the busiest times of the year – whether it's a particular junction you know always gets snarled up with traffic at Christmas, a bridge which can become dangerous to cross in rainy weather, or a recommended alternative route – tell others about it by plotting your insights onto our collaborative map here.
And then get snarled up in traffic on the M4? "Well, I've got sites that are 10 or 15 miles away from my home," says Nichol.
One cause of the slowdown was a sudden drop in investment, as big projects, such as power plants and roads, got snarled up in bureaucracy (see chart 1).
Despairing commuters are fleeing the railways and taking to their cars, so the roads are getting snarled up too.Being British, many people are inclined to put up with all this, in the belief that they are getting a safer transport system as a result.
When traffic lights break down in the ways discussed above, there is a risk that the global economy can get snarled up or even crash.In the early 1990s, James Carville, Bill Clinton's campaign manager, said: "I used to think if there was reincarnation I wanted to come back as the president or the pope... but now I want to come back as the bond market.
Though he is far from the best leader the Palestinians could have, he is the one they have.Central to the war on terrorOf course, no American president, especially after Bill Clinton's experiences, seeks willingly to get snarled up in the Middle East.
Motorists would cross the Thames without needing to get snarled up in Dartford, he argues.
"We can't be complacent, we owe it to the many many children in this country who still get snarled up by drugs, whose education chances are blighted by drugs, whose health is damaged by drugs, we owe it to them to constantly restlessly look for better ways of dealing with the scourge of drugs," he said.
(He says a true pier rat "leaves the pier cleaner" than when he arrived and helps unhook birds that get snarled up in man's detritus).
