Sentence examples for massive gridlock from inspiring English sources
He described ordering the reopening of the lanes on 13 September 2013, after receiving reports of massive gridlock for days.
"We can't absorb this -- these cars have no-where to go," he said, citing "massive gridlock" with the closings of one block of E Street, and Independence and Constitution Avenues.
Photograph: Keith Bedford/Reuters Updated at 3.41pm GMT 3.21pm GMT Morning commute in New York Without the use of its subways, most tunnels and some buses, New York City is the scene of massive gridlock as people try to return for their first day of work after the storm.
"We expect massive gridlock and little cooperation," writes Brian Gardner, Washington analyst for the financial firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
Your car would still work, but none of the traffic signals would, leading to massive gridlock, especially after cars begin to run out of gas.
PARIS — The menacing cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland moved eastward across Northern Europe on Friday, expanding an already massive transportation gridlock and throwing weary travelers into an anxious limbo.
And, at a time when the Northeast is suffering from poor air quality and gridlock, the massive project somehow never managed to include a rail link beneath the tunnel to connect North and South stations.
Indonesia is reeling from a collapsed currency, economic gridlock and the threat of massive social unrest, a triple whammy that's reflected in the country's financial asset prices (see story, p. 28).
In 1888, a massive snowstorm blanketed New York City, stopping all commerce and gridlocking above ground trains and trollies as power lines fell.
So if it takes some unprecedented Washington gridlock and confusion to make a dent in curtailing the massive prohibitionist regime eh, we should take what we can get.
