river traffic

During summer the river traffic is very heavy, even at night.

It is however opened many times a day in order to let through river traffic.

"We have seen many changes, but one of the most important is the change in river traffic.

Today most goods are moved by truck and there is almost no commercial river traffic.

The railway journey was 1 hour against 2.5 to 3.5 hours for river traffic.

The town was very active during summer, but winters brought a halt to river traffic.

Canals - completed by 1870 - increased the river traffic.

River traffic and trade had built the city, and kept it going.

Thanks largely to that effort, river traffic is on the upswing.

Thankfully river traffic at that time of night was sparse.

Without river traffic most factories have closed, and the few that remain are struggling.

To minimize the effect on river traffic, the new span was installed over the course of three days.

Both are lifting bridges, which can be raised to allow river traffic to pass through.

The aim was to reduce the interference from heavy river traffic on the race.

River traffic suffered in the Revolution as the railways had done.

River traffic increased gradually, with a toll system being used in medieval times.

The bridge had become a danger to river traffic.

He ran a tavern in the area that passing river traffic could easily access.

As a general rule, river traffic during the rainy season was three times faster downstream than up.

But neither country has much money or equipment to monitor and intercept river traffic.

For three generations, the family had conducted a guerrilla war against the Vikings' river traffic.

The rebels stopped river traffic and cut the telegraph line to Cairo.

Of course, river traffic was different in the 1800s.

All vital river traffic would come to a standstill, locked in ice.

The bridge was dredged and river traffic resumed on September 8.