1.   If there is no opening nearby, the law says, a taxi can double-park briefly, but only if it does not impede traffic.

2.   Missourians, however, worry that it would impede barge traffic downriver in the summer.

3.   That is particularly true when His and Her Excellency or their aides are brazenly impeding traffic, double parking or blocking hydrants.

4.   The restrictions came at the request of the Secret Service, which was concerned about media and tourists impeding traffic in the rural area near Waco.

5.   County commissioners restricted traffic near the ranch earlier this year after the Secret Service grew concerned about visitors impeding traffic.

6.   Roads were covered with ice and fog that further impeded traffic, Sakhalin road police said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

7.   Prosecutors said that when mounted police moved in to stop the demonstrators from impeding traffic, Hornacek refused to move.

8.   Residents have dragged out concrete barriers to impede traffic on their streets.

9.   Turkey is denying Russian claims that it was impeding ship traffic through the Bosporus straits.

10.   But snow continued to impede air traffic from Kabul, with German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer cancelling a trip Sunday.