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  • A brave taxi cab driver drives gingerly along Denmark Hill in South London, The capital's infrastructure has largely come to a halt due to the large amounts of snowfall that has hit the capital - the most for 18 years. In addition to the lack of buses, trains were severely affected and roads like this have not been gritted by the local borough council, leaving motorists struggling to control their vehicles is the slippery conditions. The taxi's orange light is still illuminated indicating he is free for hire and a foot of snow is piled on his roof as the headlights pick out the driving blizzard conditions. Footprints are already in the drift near the pavement that is now hidden from the road.
    london_snow26-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Motorists drives gingerly along Denmark Hill in South London, after unusually heavy snow falls.
    london_snow19-02-02_2009.jpg
  • An aerial landscape at the Dartford Bridge crossing of dated 1990 before the completion of London's newest Thames river crossing - the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. Already used are the toll booths taking much-needed toll fees from motorists as they emerge from the pre-existing Dartford Tunnel (1963). The Bridge is a 137 m (449 ft) high and 812 m (2,664 ft) long cable-stayed road bridge across the River Thames in south east England. It was opened in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II. It is the southbound element of the Dartford Crossing, a strategic congestion charged road crossing the half mile wide river east of London. It was built alongside two earlier tunnels under the Thames, which now form the northbound element of the crossing. Upon completion, the bridge was Europe's largest cable-supported bridge.
    dartford_bridge-02-07-1990.jpg
  • Motorists drives gingerly along Denmark Hill in South London, after unusually heavy snow falls.
    london_snow24-02-02_2009.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • 1990s evening rush-hour traffic at the junction of the 400 to Buckhead and the 401 highway, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
    atlanta_freeway-05-11-1995.jpg
  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
    atlanta_traffic11-10-1995.jpg
  • From a slightly raised viewpoint we are looking up Bishopsgate Street in the oldest area of Britain's capital, the Square Mile in the City of London. As traffic is at a standstill when lights are red, pedestrians to and fro across the scene, blurring as they negotiate crossings and traffic islands mid-way across this old Roman and medieval highway that travels north-south in what is now the city's financial district. Buses can be seen in the far distance too adding to the general bustle of a busy metropolis. The highway tends to zigzag into the distance and with the foreshortening of a long lens, appears to have a compressed perspective.
    city_traffic-20-03-1993.jpg
  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
    RB_122-28-08-2000.jpg
  • During Rome's chaotic rush hour, we see a fleet of scooters being ridden towards the viewer. Apparently chased by other commuters' cards at this busy road juntion, the traffic comes towards us as it passes over the yellow stripes of a pedestrian crossing who are probably huddled on the pavement awaiting a halt in the traffic flow. In the foreground is a young man without a helmet whose hands grip the handlebars and whose face looks at us as he rides hard ahead of his contemporaries, also on two-wheeled vehicles.
    rome_traffic01-03-11-1999.jpg
  • Blurred for effect, a scooter rider's view while negotiating Rome's rush hour traffic.
    rome_scooter01-03-11-1999.jpg
  • As darkness approaches, a queue of campervans and other vehicles queue up at the first checkpoint in the Port of Dover's Eastern Docks, the holidaymakers' first step to travelling across the English Channel to France or Belgium. beneath the famous white cliffs of Dover, that symbol of England's edge that is seen from the sea as one leaves or approaches the English shores. It is dusk and the flood lights have started illuminating the busy port roads and ramps, the red rear tail lights from a truck cross the picture's foreground and the signs - with graphics of busses, cars  and arrows that tell drivers in which lane to line-up glow yellow. Dover has long been one of the World's premier seaports, with centuries of maritime heritage, presented with a Royal Charter in 1606.
    RB_047-06-08-1994.jpg
  • Near the chaotic road junction of Piazza Venezia in the Italian capital of Rome, we see a gridlock situation of traffic. Buses, cars and three scooters and riders appear to be stuck in the middle of a motoring nightmare as no-one goes anywhere - the progress of this journey to destinations and life itself, has ground to a halt. A bus passenger looks out resigned through her window, a driver on another vehicle rests his hand on a ledge and the riders are sandwiched between cars. The dot matrix sign on the 60 bus it mentions its own destination, the abbreviation for Piazza spelled as "P.za". The Piazza Venezia takes its name from the adjacent Palazzo Venezia, the former embassy in the city of the Republic of Venice. The piazza is at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and near the Roman Forum.
    rome_traffic02-03-11-1999.jpg
  • A young model's smiling face on a Total petrol advert welcomes visitors to a truck stop wall in southern Belgium
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
    DIRFT098-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • A signpost in Flemish wrning motorists of shared car/cycling usage in the University city of Leuven on 24th March 2017, in Belgium.
    flemish_sign-01-24-03-2017.jpg
  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_sign-08-16-10-2018.jpg
  • An annoyed cyclist stops to confront a motorist and very slowly check his bike over for any damage after a Mercedes driver nudged his rear wheel in frustration of heavy traffic, on 22nd November 2017, in London England.
    cyclist_car-01-22-11-2017.jpg
  • An annoyed cyclist stops to confront a motorist and very slowly check his bike over for any damage after a Mercedes driver nudged his rear wheel in frustration of heavy traffic, on 22nd November 2017, in London England.
    cyclist_car-02-22-11-2017.jpg
  • As workers in London largely remain working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic, a driver whose elbow rests on his vehicle's door queues in traffic an urban street landscape of road markings and traffic bollards in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 4th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_walkways05-04-09-2020.jpg
  • A roadworks workmen swaps signpost arrows telling motorists about lane closures during roadworks at Lambeth North in Southwark, on 28th March 2019, in London, England
    bus_views-03-28-03-2019.jpg
  • A campaigner asks motorists to hoot their support for the recently-closed Carnegie Library by Lambeth council in Herne Hill, south London as occupiers remain inside the premises on day 3 of its occupation, 3rd April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it.
    carnegie_library25-03-04-2016.jpg
  • A visual pun showing traffic signs that tell passing motorists of a narrowing lane closure, and a construction hoarding for the clothing retailer GAP, on Shaftesbury Avenue, on 24th September, in London, England.
    traffic_signs02-23-09-2020.jpg
  • A visual pun showing traffic signs that tell passing motorists of a narrowing lane closure, and a construction hoarding for the clothing retailer GAP, on Shaftesbury Avenue, on 24th September, in London, England.
    traffic_signs01-23-09-2020.jpg
  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_sign-01-16-10-2018.jpg
  • One of the warning signs alerting motorists of tidal dangers on the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-53-27-09-2017.jpg
  • Motorists and bike riders join pedestrian crowds to watch the Portugal football team during their victory procession the day after the Euro 2016 final with France.
    portugal_lisbon-28-11-07-2016.jpg
  • Writer Hylda Sims reads her aloud poetry during a reading outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 8 of its occupation, 7th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library01-07-04-2016.jpg
  • A fading and peeling sign that seen better days, still urges motorists not to park in front of this contantly-used garage entrance in South London, England.
    no_parking07-06-03_2009.jpg
  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_sign-09-16-10-2018.jpg
  • Two traffic cones prevent motorists driving over the half-finished paint job of fresh stripes on a zebra crossing, on 16th July, at Alcobaca, Portugal. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_alcobaca-20-16-07-2016.jpg
  • Motorists and bike riders join pedestrian crowds to watch the Portugal football team during their victory procession the day after the Euro 2016 final with France.
    portugal_lisbon-31-11-07-2016.jpg
  • Wendy Sullivan, an artist, pensioner and lifelong activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 8 of its occupation, 7th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library16-07-04-2016.jpg
  • Wendy, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library03-06-04-2016.jpg
  • London, UK 2nd April: A campaigner asks motorists to hoot their horns as they pass Carnegie Library, in Herne Hill, south London on 2nd April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers. ©Richard Baker / Alamy Live News.
    carnegie_library20-02-04-2016.jpg
  • Two pedestrians walk beneath a motorists' Congestion Zone sign on a London street.
    congestion_sign01-07-03-2011.jpg
  • A placard asking passing motorists about the value of a Brexit is attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_sign-02-16-10-2018.jpg
  • Wendy, in red, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library08-06-04-2016.jpg
  • Wendy, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library05-06-04-2016.jpg
  • A campaigner asks motorists to hoot their support for the recently-closed Carnegie Library by Lambeth council in Herne Hill, south London as occupiers remain inside the premises on day 3 of its occupation, 3rd April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it.
    carnegie_library29-03-04-2016.jpg
  • A campaigner asks motorists to hoot their support for the recently-closed Carnegie Library by Lambeth council in Herne Hill, south London as occupiers remain inside the premises on day 3 of its occupation, 3rd April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it.
    carnegie_library26-03-04-2016.jpg
  • A campaigner asks motorists to hoot their horns as they pass Carnegie Library, in Herne Hill, south London on 2nd April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved. A gym will replace the working library and while some of the 20,000 books on shelves will remain, no librarians will be present to administer it. London borough’s budget cuts mean four of its 10 libraries will either close, move or be run by volunteers. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images).
    carnegie_library19-02-04-2016.jpg
  • Wendy, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library04-06-04-2016.jpg
  • As blue light fades on a bitterly cold winter's evening, the barrier of an Austrian level-crossing has been lowered to stop traffic and allow a high-speed ICE-T train to continue on its route through, near Salzburg, Austria, Europe. OBB, the Austrian Federal Railways operate a network of 5,683 km makes them the by far largest railway-company in this country. Heavy snow has fallen in this region of the Alps and deposits have settled on the fences and the glowing red stop traffic light, signalling for motorists to halt at this dangerous road-crossing location. So fast is this mode of transport, it blurs past this cold, desolate spot where only one nearby house is next to the trackside. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    RB_048-23-12-1994.jpg
  • Wendy, in red, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 8 of its occupation, 7th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library15-07-04-2016.jpg
  • Wendy, in red, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 8 of its occupation, 7th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library05-07-04-2016.jpg
  • Writer Hylda Sims reads her aloud poetry during a reading outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 8 of its occupation, 7th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library04-07-04-2016.jpg
  • Wendy, a lifelong campaigner and activist stands outside Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London asking passing motorists to hoot their support, while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 7 of its occupation, 6th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the library's doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
    carnegie_library02-06-04-2016.jpg
  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, an American flag has been sprayed with aerosol paint on a grassy knoll by a local garage owner near Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as  America sought to express their emotions and a unity. A spotlight shines across the bank to show passing motorists the creative stars and stripes artwork on the roadside. Sinking Spring's Native American tribe in this were known as the Minsi or Wolf tribe who had the reputation for being quite warlike at times..
    september11th009-18-09_2001.jpg
  • In a narrow street in Florence, a parking attendant stops to check the windscreen (windshield) of a Fiat 500 car. Squeezed into a space that only a car of this length can occupy, the lady warden bends to inspect the owner's city permit. Traffic police in Florence issue approximately 90 tickets every minute, 1,253 tickets a day so a motorist in Florence receives a traffic violation every 40 seconds, according to official figures. Ticket fines average about 140 euro per motorist bringing about 52 million to city hall each year, making it one of Italy's most heaviest fined cities. Officials note that the money entering the municipal budget through traffic fines has tripled in the last 10 years. The Fiat 500 (Cinquecento) designed by Dante Giacosa was produced by Fiat between 1957 and 1975.
    italian_parking01-16-04-1989.jpg
  • a motorist turns round at the pedestrianised road junction at Carlton Avenue, Court Lane and Dulwich Village which has been blocked off to passing traffic with plant boxes at the corner as part of emergency Coronavirus pandemic policy to keep pedestrians safe at the expense of traffic, the first phase in an experimental road layout, on 30th June 2020, in London, England. Southwark was awarded £1.3 million by TfL from its Streetspace funding pot, which aims to rapidly transform London’s streets to help facilitate social distancing, cycling, and walking as lockdown eases. Dulwich Village low traffic neighbourhood was granted £23,000 for the first phase and £110,000 for the second. As part of its ‘our healthy streets’ initiative, the council had already earmarked the Village as an LTN.
    dulwich_village-06-30-06-2020.jpg
  • This black and white scene is in a City of London side street where a bicycle parked on a parking pole at a kerbside has somehow fallen over in the gutter. Fittingly, the parking bay is for specifically for a disabled motorist and that word has been stencilled in bold white lettering on the wet road surface after a rain shower. The pavement and tarmac glisten making it slippery but the bike has been left and there is no-one in this scene. Reflected inn the puddle is the modern architecture of the office building, also seen rising from street level.
    disabled_road-13-04-2004.jpg
  • a motorist turns round at the pedestrianised road junction at Carlton Avenue, Court Lane and Dulwich Village which has been blocked off to passing traffic with plant boxes at the corner as part of emergency Coronavirus pandemic policy to keep pedestrians safe at the expense of traffic, the first phase in an experimental road layout, on 30th June 2020, in London, England. Southwark was awarded £1.3 million by TfL from its Streetspace funding pot, which aims to rapidly transform London’s streets to help facilitate social distancing, cycling, and walking as lockdown eases. Dulwich Village low traffic neighbourhood was granted £23,000 for the first phase and £110,000 for the second. As part of its ‘our healthy streets’ initiative, the council had already earmarked the Village as an LTN.
    dulwich_village-05-30-06-2020.jpg
  • A woman driver is breathalysed by an officer from the City of London Police. .The first practical roadside breath-testing device intended for use by the police was the drunkometer. The drunkometer was developed by Professor Harger in 1938. The drunkometer collected a motorist's breath sample directly into a balloon inside the machine. The breath sample was then pumped through an acidified potassium permanganate solution. If there was alcohol in the breath sample, the solution changed colour. The greater the colour change, the more alcohol there was present in the breath.
    breathalyser_driver01-21-06-1993.jpg
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