One couple, clearly from out of town, indicated by their accents and matching tour hats, stood still as the human traffic surged around them.

As a result of these changes and others, traffic has surged.

These airlines are benefiting from their Pacific routes, where traffic is surging.

America Online reported that its traffic dropped just before midnight and surged again immediately after.

And when the stock market took a nosedive last month, traffic surged to record highs at some financial Web sites.

Heavy traffic surged north and south on the divided highway.

The lost streets near the trade center had been rich with invisible clues about where things stood, how people moved, when traffic surged.

After Napster.com was ordered by a federal judge to stop permitting its users to trade copyrighted music files, traffic on the site surged.

Cingular, which operates the largest dedicated data network, said that traffic on its system surged almost 60 percent in the hours after the attacks.

Jerry knifed through the crowd, but before he could get across, the traffic surged in front of him.