Sentence examples for traffic for hours from inspiring English sources

Protesting youths here barricaded roads and attacked buses, halting traffic for hours.

After his arrest, hundreds of supporters blocked an international bridge straddling the communities, halting traffic for hours.

On March 27th, the Tea Party movement held a rally in Searchlight, Reid's home town, tying up traffic for hours on the two-lane highway from Las Vegas.

This would have been impossible in Mumbai, where you can't stop traffic for hours and prevent a crowd from surrounding movie stars.

Attention, New Yorkers who sit in traffic for hours every summer Friday on the way to your weekend house: Are you crazy?

And earlier this month hundreds of thousands poured onto Jerusalem's main highway for a mass communal prayer-cum-protest, closing it to traffic for hours.

Mike Penning, roads minister, said: "There is nothing more frustrating than being stuck in a traffic jam for hours on end.

Traffic snarled for hours as dozens of ambulances and officers from half a dozen local, state and federal agencies surrounded the building, which was cordoned off.

Last year's project caused traffic jams for hours along the river; this year the city hopes that adding detour signs will relieve the problem.

In most of the African capitals I have been to, you sit in traffic jams for hours, amid a constant cacophony of horns and shouting drivers.

NIne MSN reports that the incident, shown in footage above, lasted for about ten minutes and caused traffic congestion for hours.