Once past the city traffic, roads everywhere in the country are more or less open.
Still, Connecticut Transportation Commissioner James Redeker said traffic on roads wasn't significantly worse than normal for the Monday morning commute.
Critics immediately panned the study, saying it didn't analyze negative economic effects, including the toll of truck traffic on roads and increased health care costs.
Traffic on roads leading into Trafalgar Square is targeted for restrictions because planners are preparing motorists for its partial pedestrianisation next summer, when it will cease to be a giant roundabout and become a fairly peaceful public space once more.
Traffic on US roads tripled, to almost 5 trillion vehicle kilometres per year, while air traffic also more than tripled between 1981 and 2007, say the reviewers.
Even at the best of times, navigating traffic-choked roads in Mumbai isn't for the fainthearted.
Volunteers using hand-held speed devices will monitor traffic on smaller roads and villages.
Mr McNeill said bikes constitute "a small percentage of traffic on the roads" but they figure prominently in crash statistics.
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Fares on commuter trains, subways and buses have been temporarily waived in a bid to entice commuters off the traffic-choked roads.
Mr Griffin said there were benefits to decentralisation, including the reduction of the department's carbon footprint, and less traffic on the roads.
And doing this, of course, would divert large amounts of through traffic to other roads in the area, many of them small roads passing through villages.
The executive said the figures were even more significant when compared to the 50% increase in licensed vehicles over the same period and the 46% increase in the volume of traffic on major roads since 1985.
The only buildings that have been repaired are those that belong to the aid agencies, whose four-wheel-drive vehicles also account for most of the traffic on the roads - as well as a rare source of employment for Angolan drivers.
Passengers use a touch screen to choose their destination and the 21 pods, which carry up to four passengers and their luggage, are laser-guided and take an average of ten minutes less than the airport buses, mainly by avoiding traffic on the roads around Heathrow.
The transfer of work is due to happen this month, but the CWU said it would lead to more traffic on the roads during the morning rush hour, delays in deliveries reaching Whitstable, and longer distances for customers to travel to collect undelivered parcels.
Mysteriously, although there is 10% more traffic on the peripheral roads, journey times along them have not increased.
Shops, banks and educational institutions remained shut and traffic was off the roads.
Within twenty-four hours of introducing a modest tax on drivers in congested Stockholm roads, traffic jams all but disappeared.
Perhaps, but it might equally well divert traffic on to trunk roads where it would do far more environmental damage.
The reason for the Sunday somnolence: Car buyers are waiting for new economy models that may change traffic patterns on Indian roads.
The police also said that paramilitaries had closed a number of roads to traffic in the area using traffic cones and signs.
Critics claim that road pricing would merely displace traffic on to side roads, and that it would infringe privacy (because drivers' movements are recorded).
There's a building boom on, traffic jams clutter the roads with new Toyotas and Hyundais, and many residents enjoy a relatively high standard of living.
In other cities, such as Bristol, cycling has been encouraged by lower speed limits for cars on popular roads and traffic-free routes to bypass dangerous junctions.
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The council has been carrying out a series of repairs since April and closed a number of roads to traffic including Woodcock Street, Bishop Lane and Princes Street.
Mr Hamilton also said the construction would bring "a considerable amount of high, heavy vehicle traffic movements on to the island on what are particularly narrow roads, unsuitable for this type of traffic movement, over a three to four year period".
Police blocked roads and diverted traffic and Fort Regent was evacuated before the computer error was found.
Councillors in Wiltshire and Somerset and the Highways Agency appealed saying traffic would move onto local roads.
Thanks to several decades of under-investment and a steep increase in heavy-goods traffic, California's roads are a mess.
We drove over and back on December 23 to ensure we avoided the holiday traffic and driving on snowy roads.
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