Citations:pedlock

English citations of pedlock

Noun: "the condition of an area being so crowded that it impedes the flow of pedestrian traffic"

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1982 — Walter Kerr, "What's in a name? Traffic jams, that's what!", The New York Times, 1 April 1982:
The form letter went on to say that ever since "gridlock" had become a popular way of describing a standstill traffic jam, another new form, "pedlock," had come along to describe a pileup, and immobilization, of pedestrians.
1983 — "Retailers Revel As Yule Buying Gilds Big Apple", Miami Herald, 19 December 1983:
In fact, weekend shopping up and down the city's major avenues has been so heavy this season that it has created a new phenomenon: "pedlock."
1986 — Larry Bivens, "Cars, Pedestrians 'Fair' Well in City", Newsday, 19 May 1986:
With up to 1 million people expected to flock to street fairs, shows at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan and a Fifth Avenue parade, officials last week warned of gridlock for cars and even pedlock for pedestrians.
1986 — Thomas Ferraro, "Reports from Nation's Front Lines in the Long-Running 'Car Wars'", Chicago Tribune, 11 July 1986:
The city transportation department uses the term "pedlock" to describe these hordes of people who jam sidewalks, cross against the lights and jaywalk as a daring and dangerous way of life.
2003 — Ian Frazer, "Invented City", The New Yorker, 28 July 2003;
Within a few blocks, the crowds heading down to the Neva waterfront, site of the night's celebration, reached near-pedlock density.
2005 — Joe Moran, Reading the Everyday, Routledge (2005), →ISBN, page 84:
In recent years there has been some media discussion of 'pedlock', a term that originated in the US in the 1980s to describe conditions so crowded that they impede pedestrian movement.
2007 — Ben Gibberd, "Dodging Traffic: Taming the Belly of the Beast", The New York Times, 8 July 2007:
Mr. Tompkins cited the dual threats of gridlock, referring to frequent weekend backups of up to 45 minutes at the Holland Tunnel, and "pedlock."
2008 — Patty Winsa, "Our city square that never sleeps", Toronto Star, 4 February 2008:
As Times Square endures gridlock and pedlock – where people literally cannot move at the busiest times of the day – it also suffers severely from a lack of space, unlike Yonge-Dundas.
2008 — Jeff Byles, "Taking Back the Streets", The New York Times, 6 April 2008:
"We're going to spend a pile of money widening the sidewalks a little bit and narrowing the streets a little bit," Mr. Haikalis said of city plans to ease pedlock — pedestrian congestion — in Times Square.
2009 — Morgan Brennan, "Untangling Times Square", Forbes, 9 April 2009:
And so there's incredible gridlock and incredible pedlock, pedestrian gridlock, because the cars and the pedestrians are really just fighting for space.
2010 — Philip Smith, Timothy L. Phillips, & Ryan D. King, Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life, Cambridge University Press (2010), →ISBN, page 199:
The reworking of public space to reduce body congestion and 'pedlock' is always going to be lower on the priority list than other more urgent issues like education or crime
2011 — Nicholas Blomley, Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow, Routledge (2011), →ISBN, page 45:
The successful sidewalk, from this perspective, is wide and largely empty , or devoid of 'pedlock'.

Citations:pedlock

English citations of pedlock

Noun: "the condition of an area being so crowded that it impedes the flow of pedestrian traffic"

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