Cheshire Police said they were confident their traffic plan for the event would address any potential issues from the increase in traffic.

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We also intend to mitigate the impact of binational disasters on communities by establishing procedures to manage land and maritime traffic in the event of a border area emergency, and enhance our collective preparedness for security threats of all types -- health, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive.

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Spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said the costs included extra police on the streets, trash pickup, other sanitation and traffic control for the Tuesday event.

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Whenever there is a major live event like the Oscars, Internet traffic goes up.

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As I sat in traffic watching him, I witnessed an interesting event.

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"This is more of a media event than a real impact on the traffic of spam, " says Adam Swidler, Postini's senior manager of solutions marketing.

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An official who heard tape recordings of the radio traffic from Flight 1549 reported the pilot was extraordinarily calm during the event.

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DARPA, after all, is the ultra-forward-thinking Pentagon agency that hosted the Grand Challenge in 2006 and 2007, an autonomous car race across the Mojave desert, as well as the Urban Challenge, a 2008 event that challenged self-driving cars to negotiate a cityscape complete with obstacles and traffic.

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In addition, the event led PGA.com to its highest four-days in-site history for its traffic, page views and video streams, marking the most successful four days in PGA.com's four-year history of providing live video streaming for the PGA Championship.

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