Up and down the road, the flow of traffic looks normal, but just between the two turning flows, there's no traffic at all: it would be possible to cross the road quite safely.

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The only access route taking traffic as normal after the landslips was Polperro Hill on the western side, the council said.

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But a company that monitors website traffic, Keynote Systems Inc, has reported that traffic appears normal at some of the most-visited US websites, such as Yahoo, Google and Excite.

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