Although the road remains heavily used, traffic has diminished since the opening of the A13 autoroute.

Nobody was going to come near me until the night had quieted into that death-like quality that comes after a small town goes to sleep and the traffic has diminished to an occasional truck going up the highway.

I'm aware that when things change, it takes time to get used to them, but I also know that first impressions count, and my first impression is that this is a totally retrograde step, one which will see your traffic diminish and at what price to the licence-payer?

The traffic had diminished considerably, the rush hour over, the street in the doldrums of mid-morning quiescence.

Other glimpses of street life resembled what Western reporters have seen during the war: men fanning open air spits at restaurants still offering kebabs, and traffic much diminished but still busy enough, with double-decker buses and battered white-and-orange taxis and crowded minivans.

Possibly because of that, traffic on the freeway had diminished by midday and was moving smoothly, though there were still significant backups to reach the college parking lot.

During the late empire, as traffic diminished and city dwellers were replaced by rich landowners, Saepinum went into decline.

With the rails overtaking the Trail, the traffic and freight and other traffic diminished little by little until most all the trail's traffic was local trade.

The traffic had diminished.

Foot- traffic had diminished, and now only a few people braved the snow.