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{{Short description|Tactic used during protests and demonstrations}}
{{Weasel|date=September 2017}}

'''Traffic obstruction''' is a common tactic used during public protests and demonstrations.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Badger|first1=Emily|title=Why highways have become the center of civil rights protest|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-highways-have-become-the-center-of-civil-rights-protest/|accessdate=7 September 2017|newspaper=The Washington post|date=13 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Yongshun|first1=Cai|title=Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed Or Fail|date=2010|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0804763394|pages=110–111}}</ref> The transport users affected by such disruptions are sometimes unsympathetic to the cause.<ref>{{cite news|title=Proposed laws would crack down on protesters who block roadways|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/25/us/nd-protest-driver-bill-trnd/index.html|accessdate=7 September 2017|work=CNN|date=26 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Stopping traffic: Minnesota lawmakers try increase penalties for common protest tactic|url=http://www.salon.com/2017/01/14/stopping-traffic-minnesota-lawmakers-try-increase-penalties-for-common-protest-tactic/|website=Salon|date=14 January 2017|accessdate=7 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=In Protests, Who Owns the Highways?|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=27 October 2014|url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2014/10/in-protests-who-owns-the-highways/381963/|accessdate=7 September 2017}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=February 2020}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chen|first1=Xi|title=Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China|date=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=176}}</ref>

== Legality ==
Most jurisdictions{{which|date=September 2020}} consider the obstruction of traffic an illegal activity and have developed rules to prosecute those who ''block, obstruct, impede, or otherwise interfere with the normal flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic upon a public street or highway''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/protesters-cant-block-roads-or-public-spaces-rules-sc/articleshow/78544230.cms|title=Supreme Court: Protesters can't block roads or public spaces, rules Supreme Court | India News - Times of India|website=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> Some jurisdictions also penalize slow moving vehicle traffic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Law section |url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH&sectionNum=21654 |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov}}</ref> The unimpeded flow of traffic in the public road-space is often considered a common right. {{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

== Examples ==
Examples of intentional traffic obstructions aimed to articulate a protest agenda include [[Extinction Rebellion]] protests,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-climate-protestors-arrested-new-york-times-building-20190623-42seicg3pbaq7onth6zztomju4-story.html |title=70 people arrested protesting climate change outside New York Times hq in Midtown|newspaper=New York Daily News |date=23 June 2019 |author1=Emilie Ruscoe |author2=Esha Ray}}</ref> [[Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)|air traffic controller strike]], [[highway revolts]], [[Critical Mass (cycling)|Critical Mass]] bicycle rides corking intersections, obstruction of rail transport of nuclear fuel in Germany, road blockades by farmers or truckers in France and other countries, impact on [[Eurotunnel]] operations by the [[Migrants around Calais|Migrant Crisis]] around Calais, pipeline protests (e.g. [[Dakota Access Pipeline protests|Dakota Access Pipeline]]), etc. {{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

== Raasta roko ==
[[File:13_Manvel_Tuscano.jpg|thumb|''[[Raasta roko]]'']]

'''Raasta roko''' ([[Hindi]] for ''obstruct the road'') is a form of protest commonly practised in [[India]].<ref name="BhushanKatyal2003">{{cite book|author1=K. Bhushan|author2=G. Katyal|title=Attack on Akshardham: temple terror|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-YPaAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=28 September 2012|date=1 January 2003|publisher=A.P.H. Pub. Corp.|isbn=978-81-7648-446-6}}</ref> It usually involves large numbers of people preventing vehicular traffic from using a busy thoroughfare. Pedestrian traffic is not targeted.

'''Rail roko''' is similar blocking of a railway.<ref name="AzzelliniNess2011">{{cite book|author1=Immanuel Ness|author2=Dario Azzellini|title=Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxsXaC8ajvcC&pg=PA360|accessdate=28 September 2012|date=5 July 2011|publisher=Haymarket Books|isbn=978-1-60846-119-6|pages=360–}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Highway revolts]]
* [[Barricade]]
* [[Protest]]
* [[Traffic bottleneck]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}


[[Category:Traffic law]]
[[Category:Transport reliability]]
[[Category:Protest tactics]]
[[Category:Transport]]
[[Category:Anti-road protest]]
[[Category:Civil disobedience]]

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