heavy traffic
Bumper-to-bumper crawl
Heavy traffic describes roads congested with many vehicles, causing slow movement or standstill: We hit heavy traffic on the freeway.
The phrase extends to any system experiencing high volume—network servers, website visits, foot traffic in stores.
The site crashed due to heavy traffic after the announcement.
- delaysPauses before proceeding
- bumper to bumperVehicles nearly touching ahead/behind
- crawlMove slowly, low
- stop and goIntermittent motion pattern
- highwaysMajor intercity roads
intersections · jam · roadways · gridlock · road rage · air pollution · fumes · standstill · backed up · idling · stress · fender bender · carpooling · brake · commute time · bottleneck · exhaust · congestion
- traffic typesrush hour, morning commute, evening commute
- trafficcongestion, gridlock, bumper to bumper, bumper-to-bumper, stop and go
- traffic termsrush hour, congestion, peak hours, gridlock, bottleneck
- travel conditionsdelays, congestion, icy roads, weather, delay
- network congestionbottleneck, packet loss, latency, buffering, bandwidth limit
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