"interrupt traffic" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that disrupts the normal flow of something, usually transportation. For example: "The road construction project will interrupt traffic on the highway for several weeks."
There are only so many times you can interrupt traffic to walk over a busy London road to have your picture taken before you become a public nuisance – even if you are the Beatles.
When an array of LEDs has to be repaired in or removed from a traffic light, it is necessary interrupt traffic.
A Globe and Mail columnist also criticized the verdict, writing that "Even assuming [Chen] did damage 'doors and windows,' as well as cars, and interrupt traffic for three hours, it is difficult to argue a four-year prison sentence is somehow proportionate to the offence".
It has red marks indicating "points of interruption," or places where Coke products are displayed, interrupting traffic flow.
Photo: Less than two weeks after rain flooded many parts of the Northeast, scattered downpours interrupted traffic yesterday on several highways in the New York region.
The police briefly cordoned off the intersection of 29th and Broadway, interrupting traffic on Broadway for about an hour shortly after midday and drawing scores of curious bystanders to the scene.
TO stand in the middle of Main Street in Phoenicia and gaze up at the towering mountains, which you can do on most weekdays without interrupting traffic, is to believe that whatever the maps say, city life is worlds away.
This 548-foot-tall 19th-century building is more than just a big hunk of granite interrupting traffic in the heart of the city — it is topped by a 27-ton bronze statue of William Penn, one of 250 statues by Alexander Milne Calder ornamenting the building inside and out.
Paul Streitz of Darien, director of the Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control, said the Day Laborer No-Hassle Zone in Stamford, which was moved from East Main Street to State Street last spring to allow day laborers to offer their skills without interrupting traffic and loitering in front of stores, makes life easier for illegal immigrants.
Hostilities in the Middle East which interrupted traffic through the Suez Canal contributed, as did nationalization of Middle East oil refineries.
Sixty years ago, they interrupted traffic flow by adding parks, gazebos, and people zones -- quite progressive for that time.
