11.   PHOENIX - Right off the bat, baseball will make downtown traffic a real mess.

12.   The closure scrambled downtown traffic patterns and has been the subject of nonstop grumbling.

13.   The power failure trapped hundreds of people in elevators, stranded subway and train passengers for more than an hour and slowed downtown traffic to a crawl.

14.   The other day a teenager came weaving through downtown traffic on a skateboard while nonchalantly eating a cookie.

15.   The project will create a pedestrian mall on a block of La Salle Street and alter the downtown traffic pattern.

16.   The state of big-time college football in L.A. and how it relates to the downtown traffic patterns.

17.   There had been a recent demonstration by bicyclists who were tying up downtown traffic to protest the number of cars.

18.   Though traffic was light Saturday, the move is expected to hamper the heavy flow of downtown traffic beginning Monday.

19.   Police said a female street vendor selling candy drowned in a flooded downtown traffic tunnel.

20.   And tight restrictions on downtown traffic during the Games may make delivery of some services impossible, those who help the homeless say.