Sentence examples for traffic shutdowns from inspiring English sources

First there was the bad weather; then there were the traffic shutdowns, then there were the recriminations.

After briefly considering a nationwide air traffic shutdown, like the one it ordered on Sept. 11, the F.A.A. left airports across the rest of the country open.

The traffic shutdown, affecting hundreds of thousands of commuters, is the central and most controversial piece of a security plan that includes closing the airspace over the city even to traffic-spotting helicopters -- who would presumably have plenty to report -- and closing a triangle of streets next to the Fleet Center to nonemergency vehicles.

By taking advantage of the U.S. air traffic shutdown during 3 days after the 11 September terrorist attacks, a research team has shown that jet contrails do indeed influence the weather.

Yet he said he remained in the dark about the reasons for the traffic shutdown, which the report blamed on political retaliation.

For a country so dependent on tourism, an air traffic shutdown would take a heavy economic toll, warned Aerothai President Prachak Sajjasophon.

In the case of something as big as a political uprising or as small as a traffic shutdown, Twitter exposes you to things that are happening right now.

A major eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland in April 2010 caused Europe's largest air-traffic shutdown since World War II.

Hence, the timing of stress-related events would seem to involve a cascade of trafficking redirection followed by trafficking shutdown.

"It's estimated that Silk Road was responsible for a large amount of Bitcoin traffic, so the shutdown of Silk Road was similar to a stock crash in the Bitcoin space," said Ashley Fulks, the president of Bitcoin Ventures, a Canadian company that has created a virtual-currency gift card.

Update: Additional materials regarding the WhuddleWorld business plan and its pre-shutdown traffic have been posted below in comment #21.