I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a driving/parking/traffic offence
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Speeding is the most common traffic offence.
a road/traffic accident
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The number of traffic accidents has gone down.
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Portugal has one of Western Europe’s worst road accident rates.
a traffic count (= of how many vehicles pass through a place )
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We went to the main road at 9 am to begin our traffic count.
a traffic hazard
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Cars parked in the wrong places can cause a traffic hazard.
a traffic violation
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Speeding is one of the most common traffic violations.
air traffic control
air traffic controller
commuter traffic
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The new measures are aimed at reducing commuter traffic into the capital.
dodged...traffic
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Helen clutched Edward’s arm as they dodged through the traffic .
drug trafficking/smuggling (= the crime of bringing drugs into a country )
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The maximum penalty for drug smuggling was 25 years in jail.
Internet traffic (= the number of people using the Internet )
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An estimated 40% of the nation’s Internet traffic begins or ends in California.
motorway traffic
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the constant noise of motorway traffic
page traffic
stuck in...traffic jam
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We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
Traffic calming measures
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Traffic calming measures have been introduced.
traffic calming
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Traffic calming measures have been introduced.
traffic chaos (= when there are a lot of vehicles on the roads and they cannot move )
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The first day of the school holidays brought traffic chaos to the roads.
traffic circle
traffic cone
traffic cop
traffic court
traffic delays
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The roadworks are likely to cause serious traffic delays.
traffic island
traffic jam
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Sorry we’re late. We got stuck in a traffic jam .
traffic jam
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We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
traffic lights
traffic police British English
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Traffic police closed the motorway after the accident.
traffic school
traffic warden
traffic/aircraft/engine etc noise
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It was peaceful there, with no traffic noise at all.
traffic...diverted
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The high street is closed and traffic is being diverted .
traffic...heavy
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The traffic going into London was very heavy .
web traffic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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Once the cab had left Wandsworth behind it ran into heavy traffic .
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Positioning of the meat, produce, bakery, and dairy departments around the store perimeter assures heavy perimeter traffic .
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On a day of heavy traffic it could take an hour.
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Drive own limo to experience heavy traffic .
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I stayed with him in the heavy traffic round the ring road, skirting the city centre and out towards Bingley.
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All four lanes were heavy with traffic .
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He could hear the rumble of heavy traffic only a few kilometres away.
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The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic .
increased
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Meanwhile, the development of city centres for business and commercial use is encouraging increased traffic .
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The chairman will write to object to the increased traffic that such a scheme would generate in Juniper Green.
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More recently, increased air traffic , tightened procedures, and stricter operating limits have made it harder to achieve.
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In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948.
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Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries.
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The sharply increased volume of traffic increased the opportunities for profits, but also for crippling losses.
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Noise has become one of the great pollutants of modern city life and increased traffic is the greatest culprit.
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We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth.
oncoming
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This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic .
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We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
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There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic .
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He kept fading into the oncoming traffic or blindly passing slower vehicles at the most inopportune moments.
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It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic , with its headlights on.
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A centre island had been built to divide the oncoming and ongoing traffic .
■ NOUN
accident
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The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident .
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Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident .
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The car, with all its hidden costs in pollution, traffic accidents and congestion, will continue to be more popular.
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S., for example, there are 1, 844, 000 alcohol-related traffic accidents a year.
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Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.
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And the second story that night was all about a one-car traffic accident , with sketchy details about injuries.
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Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside.
air
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Controllers were demanding doubled wages, improved conditions, and the creation of an air traffic department independent of the Transport Ministry.
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Flight control warned air traffic of a slight change.
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We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control.
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When air traffic controllers needed even the simplest pieces of equipment, the procurement process took 9 to 12 months.
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They included warning local air traffic control and having hundreds of gallons of water and pumps standing by in case of accident.
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Denver said, waiting for air traffic controllers to confirm they could trace his signal.
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Additional government spending is particularly important in such areas as advanced wing design, air traffic management systems and low-cost manufacturing.
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The center handling air traffic in Washington and Oregon, near Auburn, Wash., was operating on backup power.
cone
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Also it should be lit at night and have traffic cones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.
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Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
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It displayed no owner identification marks and was without benefit of either warning traffic cones or night lights.
congestion
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There was traffic congestion when the Milk Race passed through city centre.
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Solve rush-hour traffic congestion by making people pay to drive in the peak hours: more toll roads and higher fees.
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Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio Cyclists have brought a city centre to a halt in a protest over traffic congestion .
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Downed power lines resulted in traffic congestion because of intersections without traffic lights.
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The boroughs also express fears that redevelopment will mean worsening traffic congestion and the loss of homes and jobs.
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Sure, some motorists still gripe about traffic congestion along the 3. 6-mile line from El Cajon to Santee.
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Parking problems and traffic congestion have prompted one local councillor to describe the International Air Tattoo as a shambles.
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The motorway, used by sixty five thousand vehicles a day, has done the job of easing traffic congestion elsewhere.
control
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Bioplan's scheme for traffic control had been accepted by Durham county council and Darlington council officers.
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We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control .
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Air traffic control and other facilities could be shared, Coun Mike Hughes, chairman of Warrington's planning committee, said.
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Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms.
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I would have needed an air traffic control centre to keep track of where everyone was at any given moment.
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The co-operation of air traffic control is central.
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It is the international language for air traffic control .
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This was not an aircraft taxi-ing down the runway, only to be called back by air traffic control .
controller
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They questioned whether air traffic controllers should have over-ruled Captain Fuchs and insisted on him using a remote runway.
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Piloting a career at any level without honest feedback is the equivalent of dismissing all the air traffic controllers at the airport.
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The personnel include air and ground crews, communications experts and air traffic controllers .
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When air traffic controllers needed even the simplest pieces of equipment, the procurement process took 9 to 12 months.
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United looked like traffic controllers , directing the flow straight down the arterial routes towards Swindon's goal.
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And the air traffic controllers and pilots on board asked for autographs.
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Pilots and other flight crew immediately come to mind; so too do maintenance engineers and air traffic controllers .
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The pilot had been in regular contact with air traffic controllers but did not report any difficulties.
cop
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Sasha says he donates about 100 roubles, or $ 3.50, a day to the traffic cops .
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Silicon Valley also is playing a major role in policing the Internet jam, like a traffic cop in downtown San Francisco.
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Tell that to Huseyin Ertan, a retired naval officer who is the Bosporus's chief traffic cop .
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As the reader might expect, I had my hands full acting like a traffic cop .
drug
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He had needed expert searchers for his battle against the drug traffic .
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There were casinos, betting parlors, drug traffic .
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When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar.
flow
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If everyone knows and obeys the rules traffic flow and safety at roundabouts is much improved.
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Measure O backers say the university-financed roadway improvements are necessary to improve traffic flow , including emergency trips to Stanford medical facilities.
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Driver-only buses have become the norm, and may have increased privatised profitability, but they've decreased traffic flow .
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Whatever option is picked should allow the maximum unimpeded traffic flow on to and off of city streets.
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This may be achieved through better driving habits, improved traffic flow systems and road networks and car pooling.
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He checked the traffic flow , watching the lemon-drop headlights approach in pairs.
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The diamond rivers of traffic flow inexhaustibly on.
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A police officer negligently sent the plaintiff, another police officer, into the tunnel, against the traffic flow .
freight
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Finally, in 1940, freight traffic ceased and the track was removed in 1941.
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In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
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The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic .
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Until 1987 there were two separate train ferry operations for through freight traffic between Britain and the continent, Dover-Dunkerque and Harwich-Zeebrugge.
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This short-sighted analysis by Serpell is shown up most clearly in the section on freight traffic .
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On 1 May 1956 this branch finally closed, having been opened to passenger and freight traffic in 1863.
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The miners were joined by striking railway workers, who halted freight traffic .
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For all sorts of environmental reasons rail should be encouraged to increase its share of freight traffic .
island
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The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island , surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
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Somehow his Volkswagen had climbed up on to a traffic island .
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In Bombay, for instance, every thousand people have only 0.1 hectares of open space - and this includes traffic islands .
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We round a couple of buoys beaded with cats' eyes; sea traffic islands .
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No one ever walks round a traffic island .
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This viewpoint today would come from the middle of a traffic island .
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I guided him to the traffic island in the middle.
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At second traffic island following sign to Beaumaris.
jam
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We don't want bus lanes on motorways and we don't want traffic jams .
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Nevertheless, telecommuting is destined to increase, he said, pushed along by snowstorms, traffic jams and technological progress.
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Streets around the normally tranquil town of Morton in Marsh were sealed and long traffic jams built up.
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I had the same advantage of recklessness as a driver in a traffic jam with a rent-a-car.
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There was a long halt, as a traffic jam piled up ahead.
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You arrive just in time for a rolling traffic jam in a town crammed with shops, apartments and construction cranes.
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Why do we want to watch traffic jams on telly?
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Just look at these cabins, and you forget traffic jams , mortgages and mayhem back home.
light
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The letters are divided into traffic light colours to signal to customers whether their endowment will pay off their mortgage.
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Anger is like a red light at the traffic lights.
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Downed power lines resulted in traffic congestion because of intersections without traffic lights .
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As I followed him across the road, he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance.
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Cars have been stolen at traffic lights .
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Julie didn't answer, but drove on towards the traffic lights , glancing again in the rear-view mirror.
management
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On the traffic management front, the county say that the consideration of local traffic needs will have to cover two situations.
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Additional government spending is particularly important in such areas as advanced wing design, air traffic management systems and low-cost manufacturing.
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Unquestionably, the physical measures and publicity have resulted in considerable success in achieving this most crucial aim of environmental traffic management .
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In addition, there are traffic management measures, including red routes, of which the hon. Gentleman is aware.
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It will usually be desirable for the landlord to have power to make regulations about traffic management .
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Its construction formed part of an overall traffic management programme aimed at getting through traffic flows out of the city centre.
noise
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The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and, after a time, they also totally ignore the traffic noise .
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Win could hear traffic noises , excited air.
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It also reduces a certain amount of heat loss, as well as cutting down traffic noise .
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Traffic starts to build about six, and so does the traffic noise .
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It was incredibly quiet, with distant traffic noise making it seem even quieter.
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It must be nearly dawn, for there are more traffic noises breaking into the darkness outside.
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There were more traffic noises outside and a thin light came through the window.
passenger
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It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic .
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In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
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There, passenger traffic was light, and was generally regarded as a nuisance.
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Bishop's Castle Railway opened for passenger traffic .
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By 1919 much of the passenger traffic had moved to rail and road and only cargo steamers were then employed.
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The station opened in 1933, designed for continuing growth in passenger traffic .
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And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic .
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Swindon and Peterborough probably have more commuters going to them than their total everyday passenger traffic in the steam age.
problem
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At times, even in the cities, an anthill occupied by a Cobra can be the cause of great traffic problems .
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Councillors had feared the nursery might generate traffic problems .
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Because of this reduced funding, government strategies for addressing our potential traffic problems had to change.
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It causes no widespread congestion or great traffic problems .
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A recent major study of traffic problems in the Edinburgh area recognised road safety as a major factor for consideration.
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But residents were concerned about the traffic problems and danger from parked cars.
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Will there be enough parking provision and will the development cause traffic problems once it is complete?
road
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The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident.
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There was no house in sight; no form of transport; indeed hardly any road traffic .
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Panic would result in a rapid encounter with the main road traffic to our rear.
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Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.
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The linkages were already in evidence from one point of view: road traffic .
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At the beginning of the 20C the sides were raised and in 1950 the bridge was closed to road traffic .
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Salop public wanted main road traffic growth increase of 50% since 1979.
warden
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A traffic warden , finding an empty car, gave the Vicar a parking ticket.
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The traffic warden helped by urging them on.
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I called on a conveniently passing traffic warden to help me out.
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Back in the car park, I found that an officious traffic warden had decided to make my day.
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Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal, factory unit or traffic warden .
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A traffic warden is at the sharp end of the twentieth century guy.
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A moment later they closed the ambulance door, a siren started up and the traffic warden began waving me on.
■ VERB
block
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The cars slew to a halt, blocking the traffic .
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When they did, traffic got worse; then they blocked it off and traffic improved.
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Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.
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Some firewalls place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic , and others emphasize permitting traffic.
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Protesters hung banners from lamp-posts and forced police to block through traffic .
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The activists blocked traffic Saturday along the Tijuana border crossing.
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They erected barricades to block traffic , but these were removed following peaceful negotiations with police.
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The force of the impact sent concrete dividers into the eastbound lanes, blocking traffic there, too.
carry
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This has continued in use to the present day and carries a vast traffic between Oxford and Coventry and Birmingham.
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S.-supported facilities carry traffic other than that dedicated to the particular application that justified the link.
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One will be for a fast and reliable commuter line across Kent, which could incidentally carry cross-Channel traffic .
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Today, all regional providers carry commercial traffic .
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Few would deny that the railway is admirably suited to carrying this type of traffic .
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Brown envisions Octavia Street as a boulevard to carry traffic over Market Street.
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The yard looks busy, but close examination reveals that very few wagons were carrying traffic .
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Cable-television companies are racing to re-engineer their systems to carry Internet traffic as well as sitcoms and sports.
direct
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Police were directing the traffic , waving traffic on.
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Miss Rose pulled on galoshes and spent the noon hour directing traffic .
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They direct traffic , investigate thefts and search for illegal weapons at roadblocks.
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The midday power outage also caused traffic snarls as police officers directed traffic through intersections whose signals had gone dark.
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He had detailed another man to direct the traffic .
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Sherron Brown, the minister, directed traffic .
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He'd been directing traffic at a census point in Weedon, Northamptonshire.
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Flaggers will direct traffic , giving preference to northbound traffic in the morning and southbound in the evening.
divert
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Small channels are built to divert some of the traffic to the new route.
handle
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The site was revamped two months ago and a new system was installed to enable Tesco to handle increased levels of traffic .
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OP-20-G secretly handled naval traffic .
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The trains which handled the local traffic took ninety minutes for the journey.
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Everyone agrees the road was never meant to handle this kind of traffic .
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The center handling air traffic in Washington and Oregon, near Auburn, Wash., was operating on backup power.
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It can also handle more types of traffic .
increase
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One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day.
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In-ad coupons may feature private label products and may be intended to increase store traffic .
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The station and office development together will increase the traffic on Euston road during the evening peak hours by 70 percent.
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They say it would increase traffic on nearby roads and make them unsafe.
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The site was revamped two months ago and a new system was installed to enable Tesco to handle increased levels of traffic .
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The council postponed reading of an ordinance to increase traffic fines in Grand Forks until the new council takes office.
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It is estimated that its completion alone will increase lorry traffic across frontiers by between 30 and 50 percent.
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He added a practical note: the proposals, he pointed out, would undoubtedly increase tourist traffic at the Falls.
reduce
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Cycling officers were asked what measures they used to reduce traffic speed and if they had a cycling programme.
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Meantime, businesses increasingly are providing employee incentives to reduce traffic .
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The Commission calls for higher fuel taxes and vehicle excise duty to be used to reduce traffic growth.
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This was planned to reduce traffic volume by 40 percent.
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There also is the obvious environmental benefits to biking, since it reduces air pollution and reduces traffic .
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We will improve public transport, reduce traffic congestion, and encourage pedestrianisation and cycling schemes.
stick
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Slachman's stuck in traffic , but I can just about fit you in.
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Then his cab got stuck in traffic , for which I thanked the Lord.
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It follows torrential rain yesterday, which flooded roads, and caused chaos as hundreds of commuters were stuck in traffic jams.
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When you're stuck in traffic with Libby Purves on radio.
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Congestion makes things worse: cars stuck in traffic jams pollute three times as much as those on the open road.
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Says he was stuck in traffic .
stop
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The liaison officer and local police were on the nearby road, ready to stop the traffic .
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While stopped in traffic , practice asking for a raise.
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I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light.
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At First Avenue, we stopped dead in traffic .
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The entrances to the path will be protected by bollards and a chicane, to stop any unauthorised traffic .
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Police say he was stopped for a traffic violation.
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He accepts that Skinnergate should be pedestrianised to stop the traffic chaos.
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Luckily, we were stopped at a lengthy traffic light.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
oncoming car/traffic etc
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It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
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No oncoming traffic, he said.
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The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
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The person driving was forced to stop when Glover walked himself and Paul almost into the oncoming car.
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There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic.
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This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic.
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We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
speed/traffic humps
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There's been a lot more traffic around here since they opened the mall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the traffic is thick along the Grand Loop, which carves a large figure-eight through the center of the park.
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At present, around half of transatlantic telephony traffic is carried via satellite.
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Ballymena Division Warden Street, Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.
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It shows steady increases in accidents with injuries, as traffic volumes mounted.
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People are running, roller-blading, dancing in traffic .
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The answer to the first problem is obviously to try to do something about your domestic traffic problems.
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There had been little traffic so far: mostly long-distance lorries.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cocaine
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Both were later charged with attempted cocaine trafficking .
drug
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Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes.
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Santacruz was awaiting trial for illicit enrichment, money laundering and drug trafficking .
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He was immediately flown to Florida to face drugs trafficking charges.
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Christie and more than two dozen Hells Angels and associates were indicted last week on drug trafficking charges.
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As drug trafficking grew, so did the piles of bodies on the outskirts of Rio Branco.
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He faces trial on dozens of charges, including money laundering, drug trafficking and masterminding death squad killings.
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During 1989 a total of 99 people had been beheaded, many of them for drug trafficking offences.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare, narcotics traffic , and addiction.
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During 1989 a total of 99 people had been beheaded, many of them for drug trafficking offences.
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He was immediately flown to Florida to face drugs trafficking charges.
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Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes.
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The charges include armed robbery, distribution of stolen property, illegal gun sales and use, and drug trafficking.
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Those now being accused of trafficking in stolen property are dismayed.