1.   For insurance reasons, the course will be closed to automobile traffic.

2.   At the peak of its popularity, police routinely closed some of the Westwood streets to automobile traffic.

3.   Automobile traffic could not move, and backed up on major highways for miles.

4.   Before that, the number of buses had actually been in decline for more than a decade, as automobile traffic swelled.

5.   Even worse, the return of automobile traffic has cast a hazy blanket of smog over the capital and fouled the air.

6.   Every year, five blocks of the downtown area are closed to automobile traffic and open to horse-drawn carriages and strolling carolers dressed in period costumes.

7.   For a decade now, Secret Service agents have been advising that Pennsylvania Ave. be closed to automobile traffic in front of the White House.

8.   For Owais Choudharino, owner of the Washington Avenue Deli and International Catering, business was bad Monday and Tuesday as barricades diverted foot and automobile traffic.

9.   Granted that automobile traffic congestion is a continuing and worsening problem in this booming part of our state.