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2 unusual facts about Congestion


Congestion

Nasal congestion, the blockage of nasal passages due to swollen membranes

Congestion pricing, a system of surcharging users of public goods that are subject to congestion through excess demand


Battle of the Nive

Though delayed by congestion at the bridge over the Adour, Soult's attack against the British positions on the ridge around Saint-Pierre-d'Irube was powerful enough for one British lieutenant colonel to flee the field, taking his battalion (1/3rd Buffs Foot) with him.

Benadryl

Each 5 mL of Benadryl Chesty Cough & Nasal Congestion contains 100 mg of Guaifenesin (an expectorant) and 30 mg of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride as the active ingredients.

Benjamin C. Marsh

Overcrowding in places like the Lower East Side led the National Consumers League and other groups to establish the Committee on Congestion of Population in 1907; Marsh was hired as the committee's first executive secretary.

Black Nazarene

It is normally only a school holiday for all levels, but in 2014 the Mayor of Manila and former President Joseph Estrada, for the first time in the city's history, declared it a special non-working holiday due to the impassability of some thoroughfares and projected congestion in others.

Britannia Stadium

That meant spectators arriving from the City or the motorway had to travel up the A50 for over a mile to a roundabout at Sideway and double-back the other way, which caused huge congestion problems.

Casey Cagle

According to Forbes, Atlanta is the seventh-worst congestion "traffic trap" in the United States.

Charkop

But the worst example of congestion by people is at the Gorai bridge where the lake has been filled with faeces and rubbish and is a popular squatting ground.

Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge

Planning began in the early 1950s for a new bridge to ease the congestion of the nearby Slade's Ferry and Brightman Street Bridges, as well as to carry the proposed Cape Cod Expressway over the Taunton River.

Charm City Circulator

The new route branded the "Banner Route" color branded as Blue Route will relieve congestion and make it easier for visitors to get to/from the famous landmark as well just in time for the War of 1812 bicentennial celebration.

Clifton, Nottingham

The development would be tied in with a new housing estate south of Clifton, a new OAP residential estate, and a Park and Ride to serve the M1 and reduce congestion into the city along the A453.

Creighton Manning Engineering

Slingerlands Bypass (New York State Route 85): Creighton Manning was the lead civil engineering consultant for the NYSDOT responsible for the design of the bypass, along with four roundabouts in order to ease traffic congestion in the area.

David Kohler

An appeal to the Department of the Environment in 1998 was turned down on grounds of traffic congestion.

Economy of the Maldives

Limitations on potable water and arable land, plus the added difficulty of congestion are some of the problems faced by households in Malé.

Edinburgh congestion charge

Edinburgh chose to participate in the Department for Transport's Charging Development Partnership of local authorities working considering congestion charging or workplace parking levies, and also part-funded the European Union's PRoGR€SS project ('Pricing Road use for Greater Responsibility, Efficiency and Sustainability') to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness and acceptance of urban road pricing schemes, under the EU's CUPID European Road Pricing initiative.

Goshen Avenue

Nevertheless, throughout the months of August to June (when VUSD school's are in session), congestion can be high.

Government Emergency Telecommunications Service

Additionally, congestion in the public switched telephone network, such as the well-documented “Mother’s Day phenomenon”, in which Mother’s Day generally has the highest blocking of long-distance telephone calls of any single day of the year, can prevent access to circuits.

Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association

With a commitment to reducing congestion and providing transportation alternatives throughout the region, GVF has created the Bike to Work Challenge to encourage commuters to bike to work.

Gustav Hermann Schmischke

Once there had been differences within the local group in Dessau, he requested a dismissal order on 28 February 1927, this wasn't granted until April 1927 (because of congestion in office).

Hobart Bridge

Congestion became a severe problem, and in the late 1950s the decision was taken to construct a completely new bridge, the Tasman Bridge, which opened in early 1964.

Kincardine Line

Under Scottish Executive funding, and to relieve congestion on the Forth Bridge, the line between Stirling and Alloa was reopened to passenger traffic, and the line to Kincardine was rebuilt for coal traffic to Longannet.

London Buses route 14

In 1957 the route was used as the basis for a New Scientist magazine study into congestion on London streets.

Maine State Route 26

a new 1.6-mile (2.6 km) bypass, State Route 26A, was completed and put into service to alleviate congestion in the center of Gray Village where U.S. Route 202, SR 4, SR 26, SR 100, and SR 115 intersect.

Milan Area C

Demonstrations were held against Area C and a piece of hate mail containing a bullet case and text against the congestion charge was sent to the mayor Giuliano Pisapia.

Minnesota State Highway 64

This route is often used by motorists as a shortcut between Bemidji and the Twin Cities to avoid congestion on nearby Highway 371.

Nasal congestion

Topical decongestants should only be used by patients for a maximum of 3 days in a row, because rebound congestion may occur in the form of rhinitis medicamentosa.

New Wear bridge

The bridge is likely to be constructed to the west side of the city over the River Wear, with the purpose of reducing traffic congestion.

North Carolina Highway 184

Congestion is common, which peaks in early Autumn (fall colors) and Winter holidays.

Premier Soccer League

In August 2002, the PSL bought two Premier Division licences, from the owners of Ria Stars F.C. and Free State Stars F.C., the PSL dissolved the license to ease fixture congestion and reduce their own costs by 400k ZAR per month as each top tier club received 200k ZAR on a monthly basis from the PSL.

Princes Highway

Apart from this "National Alternative Route 1" route and "C***" route (in the outer metropolitan areas - such as Werribee and Berwick), the M1 Freeway route intersects (Monash Freeway/CityLink/West Gate Freeway/Princes Freeway) and this carries the much higher volume of traffic, including congestion in the peak periods, serving as the major, most direct and quickest route for the "1" route in Australia.

Raritan Valley Line

The Raritan Valley Rail Coalition, formed in 1998 by former U.S. Congressman Bob Franks, is currently looking for cost-effective ways to improve mobility, reduce highway congestion, and increase transit ridership along the Raritan Valley Line.

Second Harbour Crossing, Auckland

It was expected that traffic congestion would only get worse as North Shore City grew further, and Auckland City became more densely settled.

SJKC Damansara

However on 26 January 2001, the school was moved from old block at Section 17 to the new school at PJU 3, near Tropicana Golf and Country Club following instructions from federal government that it no longer provided a “conducive learning environment” because of traffic congestion and noise pollution from the neighbouring Sprint Expressway.

Stratford station

Westbound Central line trains travelling towards London Liverpool Street Station and Central London open their doors on both sides, so that passengers can alight and board trains from either side, reducing dwell times and peak-hour congestion in the passageways.

Tallmadge, Ohio

While two separate Ohio state routes meet at the intersection (SR 91 and SR 261; at one point SR 18 and SR 532 also met there), the one-lane circle regularly accommodates several dozen vehicles at a time without congestion.

Tanjung Priok

On November 20, 2011 the Jakarta administration inaugurated the city's first railways tourism package aimed at attracting more tourists and reducing traffic congestion from Gambir Railway Station to the Tanjung Priok Station.

Traffic congestion: Reconstruction with Kerner's three-phase theory

Traffic congestion can be reconstructed in space and time (Fig. 1) based on Boris Kerner’s three-phase traffic theory with the use of the ASDA and FOTO models introduced by Kerner.

Traffic control

Network traffic control, the manipulation of network traffic to avoid network congestion or to ensure quality of service in telecommunications

Traffic flow

Some of these common features of traffic congestion define synchronized flow and wide moving jam traffic phases of congested traffic in Kerner’s three-phase traffic theory of traffic flow.

Tri-State Transportation Campaign

TSTC has argued that the planned expansion of the Garden State Parkway between exits 30 and 80 will not provide long-term congestion relief and sued the NJ Department of Environmental Protection in 2009 over its approval of environmental permits for the project.

West Hampstead railway station

This service known as London Crosslink, was discontinued in Autumn 2002 due to congestion on the North London Line and the financial return being less than that forecast.


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