Royal Mail says it is losing traffic at a rate of some 10% a year.
Chang's are now driving away customers, although some companies like Chipotle Mexican Grill, Texas Roadhouse and McDonald's have raised menu prices without losing traffic.
To avoid losing traffic (and business) to Paris and Frankfurt, London must either expand its other airports, such as Stansted, or build a new colossus.
The main rail artery is the Rome-Pescara line, and local rail connections are slowly losing traffic to buses and trucks.
Heathrow argues that when Tokyo opened a new principal airport, Narita, while leaving open the old one, Haneda, it lost traffic to Seoul.
The cost was high in terms of lost traffic, for just as the Zagats were digging in their heels, Google was rapidly gaining market share among Web users.
"We had a choice of charging higher prices and losing traffic or charging lower prices and losing money," Mr. Slitt said.
The 65th Street yard has been unused since before the city bought it in 1982, with the intention of recapturing some of the lost traffic.
Now, an N,Y,P,D, boss, whose only job is to punish police officers for losing traffic court cases, will look for the slightest clerical error in order to blame the officer.
When Facebook goes down it's a serious issue: bored office workers are bereft of distractions, children are obliged to talk to their families, media executives cry over lost traffic and nobody gets poked … (no seriously, that still exists).
