Sentences with phrase «causing traffic gridlocks»

The planned protest also had markets in Onitsha and its environs shut as vehicular movements were also disrupted along the Onitsha Enugu Expressway, Onitsha Owerri Road, Uga Atani Ogaru Local Government Road, Onitsha Aguleri, Nsugbe, Nkwelle Ezunaka Roads, Old and New Market Roads, Nkpor, Ogidi, Obosi Roads, thereby causing traffic gridlocks on all the roads within and outside Onitsha.

She said: «We have had instances of containerized trucks falling off the road and causing traffic gridlock for hours due to the deplorable state of the road.

The situation caused a traffic gridlock, making commuters to wait for several minutes before having a right of way.

However, residents claim the dedicated bus lanes would divert traffic to smaller streets, causing a traffic gridlock during the rush hour.

This consisted of a barrier of oil drums built in a narrow Parisian street which caused traffic gridlock.

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Another highbrow area under heavy surveillance was the popular Imgbi Road in Amarata, where two checkpoints by policemen was causing terrible traffic gridlocks, as motorists were thoroughly frisked to ascertain the contents of their cars» trunks.

«They cause a lot of traffic gridlock and people coming from Ota or from Abule Egba don't have the road to connect other areas of the State.

William Phelps Eno, a pioneer of vehicular traffic control in the early 20th century, wrote about gridlock caused by horse - drawn carriages on the streets of his native New York City in the 1860s.