Sentence examples for traffic holdups from inspiring English sources

In addition to the minor - or not so minor - irritations of lengthy drives and traffic holdups, it's now been shown that long commutes, especially with multiple and prolonged delays, can take a toll on your health.

In Blackass, everything takes place in public places – offices, the mall, the nightclub, the hotel, the passport office, traffic holdup, the canteen.

It is an accepted experience from the seasonal sugar beet transport that a faster transport with trucks reduces the local traffic holdup without much transport cost difference.

One of the biggest holdups for freight traffic is that Chicago's crowded rails must also get hundreds of thousands of commuters to work and home mornings and evenings, and so by an agreement known as the Chicago Protocol, the shared tracks and intersections belong to passenger rail during rush hours.

The holdup is not due to traffic or construction or an accident, but rather to this astonishing sight: A dancing, leaping, lip-synching transsexual in a peekaboo dress and cha-cha heels is performing precision spot-turns in the middle of the street.

There were other holdups.

"There were many, many holdups.

The president of the air traffic controllers' union at the San Francisco airport admitted on Friday that he was the so-called Robust Robber who had been linked to nine California bank holdups, his lawyer said.

The group chafed at the holdups.

The holdups appear to be legal.

Budget holdups have added to delays.