road blocks
Police checkpoint obstacles
Roadblocks are barriers placed across roads to stop or slow traffic, typically set up by police or military to check vehicles or prevent passage.
The word extends to any obstacle that impedes progress: We've hit a few roadblocks in the negotiations.
Usually written as one word: roadblock.
- barricadeObstacle blocking a path
- obstacleSomething blocking the way
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- detour signNotice of temporary rerouting
- checkpointInspection station on route
police checkpoint · construction · cones · traffic · traffic jam · halt · full stop · impediment · standstill · obstruction · hurdle · hit a wall · blockade · dead end · diversion · delay · gridlock · bottleneck
- Traffic Policetraffic cop, traffic stop, patrol car, traffic stops, highway patrol
- road barrierstraffic cones, barricades, jersey barriers, crash barriers, guardrails
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
- military policeMP, MPs, military police, shore patrol, provost
road blocksgreen lights
Signals indicating permission
clear path · open road · breakthroughs · enablers · facilitators
road blocksopen access
Free public scholarly content
free flow · thoroughfare · clearance · opening · gateway
road blocksauthorization
Formal permission granted
clearance · permission · all-clear · go-ahead · approval
road, block, roads, roadway, roadways, blocks, blocked, blocking, blocker