In Basingstoke, some 3,000 motorists were forced to either abandon their vehicles or sleep in them overnight after becoming stuck in gridlocked traffic.

Beijing is clotted with gridlocked traffic as the number of cars has more than doubled in just six years.

Emergency ground response was greatly hampered by ice-covered roads and gridlocked traffic.

FOR morning commuters, the hours trapped in gridlocked traffic are a ripe time for fantasies of drastic change.

Groups gathered impassively in the road, among the gridlocked traffic, listening through open windows to car radios.

So last month, with all the gridlocked traffic from the holidays and the Madison Avenue debacle, it was so outrageous that you couldn't move anyplace.

Mr. Benson said the allure of the waves and television images of gridlocked traffic on Interstate 45 would keep him here through the storm.

Above the gridlocked traffic, the snow-capped Rockies pierce a dark slab of cloud.

But now the trolley bus has run into gridlocked traffic, and its passengers sit scowling amid the heat and exhaust fumes.

Mr. Bloomberg has suggested that a strike would cripple the city's economy and claim lives if emergency vehicles were stuck in gridlocked traffic.