Sentence examples for traffic closed from inspiring English sources

A three-hour standoff between war protesters and the police on Monday at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco snarled traffic, closed a popular pedestrian walkway and led to 10 arrests.

This opened in 1910 for passenger and goods traffic, closed for the First World War, re-opened after the war but ran for passengers only for two more years in the mid-1920s and finally closed to all traffic in the 1950s.

Bad weather over the past week had grounded hundreds of airline flights, snarled highway traffic, closed schools and brought down power lines from Texas to the Great Lakes and from the Northwest to New England.

"I said to him: 'But you're the ones blocking traffic, closing up New York Avenue.

My colleague Jeffrey Marcus drove expertly from Johannesburg yesterday, negotiating the toll road, with two lanes in each direction, often nothing but a yellow line between us and oncoming traffic, closing speed of, well, never mind.

After a hazy start, the first was assuaged by a combination of wind, rain and impressive efforts to reduce pollution by restricting traffic, closing factories and improving public transport.

The twin presidential appearances are diverting traffic, closing roads and bringing with them lots of serious-looking people with sunglasses who speak into their wrists.

A 2012 IEEE study estimates that widespread adoption of autonomous-driving technology could increase highway capacity fivefold, simply by packing traffic closer together.

The events in London, Glasgow and Belfast passed peacefully, although some disabled activists staged a sit-in and cut off traffic close to Hyde Park in London.

The restaurant reopened in 2007 in Bond Street in front of four lanes of thundering traffic, close to the Cabot Circus shopping centre.

Traffic closing costs were substantially higher than the direct costs, especially for the post-tensioned cap.