Sentence examples similar to jammed motorways from inspiring English sources

A TOLL road snakes west out of Madrid, offering a fast alternative to the jammed motorway alongside.

"THEY said you couldn't create islands in the middle of a city," shouts a property advertisement over a jammed Dubai motorway.

Far from our big cities, less visible than our pollution-belching industries and motorways jammed with idling cars, giant cargo ships are also adding their considerable carbon footprint.

Indeed, in traffic-jammed motorways, high accumulations of NOx at ground level are harmful by direct inhalation7.

And driving all the way would have meant dealing with the French summer jams - motorways that were clogged for hundreds of kilometres on the day we sped happily south.

The motoring organisation said there had been a failure to deal with jams on motorways and major roads, and breakdown service Green Flag said local authorities had not spread enough grit on minor roads.

There was an immigrant traffic parade out the front, since Nigel seems to think they're to blame for traffic-jams on motorways.

The Persian Gulf is a narrow strip of water jammed with supertankers – like a maritime motorway.

But motorways in Britain are particularly jammed.

It should be noted that while motorways and public transit routes are likely to become jammed, not helped by the constraining geography in Auckland, the likelihood of such congestion on the waters of the Waitemata and Manukau Harbours is low.

Congestion in British cities has yet to reach the nightmarish gridlock of Mexico City, Cairo or Bangkok, but already the motorways around Birmingham and the main approach roads to London are jammed for many hours of the day.