1.   There are reports of severe tailbacks for southbound motorists but northbound traffic is moving normally say the police.

2.   After depositing my granddaughter at school, I headed back home and away from the northbound traffic jam.

3.   But instead of smashing into the oncoming northbound traffic, the vehicle slammed into flexible steel cables installed to prevent crossover accidents.

4.   Northbound Thruway traffic was halted for hours as rescue workers who swarmed to the scene rushed victims by ambulance and helicopter to hospitals in Kingston and Valhalla, N.Y.

5.   Northbound traffic had stopped for a traffic light at Royal, and Parker said she held up traffic on the southbound side as she saw the skidding helicopter.

6.   Northbound traffic, which was reduced to one lane at Gorman was backed up to Castaic, causing motorists to overflow onto the Antelope Valley Freeway.

7.   The traditionally huge holiday increase in northbound traffic is expected to begin Thursday and last for a week, according to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

8.   To get out of the jam, frustrated drivers were crossing the median and turning into the fast lane of the northbound traffic.

9.   Traffic northbound is allowed on Saturdays and Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

10.   Only northbound traffic is permitted to allow refugees to flee.