The thing is, Those parents could have dropped their children just 50 yards away, on Broadway, and saved themselves a good chunk of gridlock time.
AS Venice shimmered beneath a pale full moon last week, it was gridlock time on the Grand Canal, with water taxis laden with American plutocrats and their couture-clad inamoratas racing from palazzo to palazzo to attend dinners and receptions to mark the opening of the 49th Venice Biennale.
In 2006, McConnell remarked that he has served as "a proud guardian of gridlock from time to time, when there was a point to it".
Given these dire ecological trends, limited public funding and legislative gridlock, the time is ripe for a budget-neutral, executive-branch approach for managing our natural resources: triage.
Miami, people here said, is a difficult city to live in anyway with gridlock at all times of the day -- it has been rated the nation's third most congested city -- falling bond ratings from governmental mismanagement, and the weather, which can feel like a hot, wet sock.
Now, after observing a notoriously choked stretch of autobahn, two German researchers think they understand better why even a minor slowdown on a packed highway can rapidly trigger long-lasting gridlock: Traffic at times appears to act like a substance rapidly changing from, say, a gas to a liquid.
And the dawning of a new age of mendacity and doublespeak, in which the poor old M25 would look like an oversize coprolite, the posthumous dream of urban utopians; a highway born 50 years too late had arrived just in time to welcome the coming era of gridlock and real-time TV.
We have been experiencing national air gridlock for some time now.
We usually encounter gloom and doom before every Olympic Games, fears of terrorism or gridlock, but this time the dark cloud of pollution has already enveloped the Games.
Gov. Chris Christie, as head of the University of Delaware's student congress in 1983, gave assurances that there would be no gridlock at graduation time.
Updated at 9.09am BST 8.54am BST Letta went on to warn that a new election could cause the same gridlock as last time: Lizzy Davies (@lizzy_davies) A new election now could well leave Italy gridlocked again, he warns.
