Last month, the District paid $250,000 to settle a case brought by the family of an unarmed teenager shot and killed at a traffic roadblock in 1996.
Iraqi government forces have closed many of the main roads into Sadr City, creating a snarl of traffic at roadblocks near the city center, where one flak-jacketed Iraqi soldier fired live ammunition into the air to direct traffic.
They use computerized maps to determine where to drive, and to anticipate road signs, traffic lights and roadblocks long before they are visible to the human eye.
Large numbers of people drove to the Ressalat neighborhood tonight, causing traffic jams, despite roadblocks operated by paramilitary forces carrying Kalashnikov rifles.
In the dazzling opening sequence, a red Subaru WRX carrying a team of bank robbers nimbly weaves in and out of Atlanta traffic, dodging impossible roadblocks and playing shell games with other cars.
Melike Lakadamyali, a group leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, for instance, studies microtubule vesicle trafficking, specifically how the motor proteins transporting these vesicles can "evade roadblocks and traffic jams in the crowded environment of a living cell".
Low-flying helicopters circled the city and roadblocks gridlocked traffic.
Traffic is minimal, and roadblocks operated by rock-wielding, pro-Gbagbo youth groups are everywhere.
On Sunday, October 28th, Dutchess County residents began encountering roadblocks and traffic jams.
The public would most likely see the sudden appearance of roadblocks, causing traffic delays.
Police roadblocks diverted traffic, which was snarled throughout the evening rush.
