Roadblock

For other uses, see Roadblock (disambiguation).

A roadblock is a temporary installation set up to control or block traffic along a road. The reasons for one could be:

• Roadworks
• Temporary road closure during special events
• Police chase
• Robbery
• Sobriety checkpoint

Concrete barrier

In peaceful circumstances, they are usually installed by the police or road transport authorities; they are also commonly employed during wars and are usually staffed by heavily armed soldiers in that case. During protests and riots, both police and demonstrators sometimes use roadblocks.^[1][2]

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  Roadblock in the West Bank
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  Polish barricade during the Warsaw Uprising (1944)
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  Roadblock during roadworks at Hisingen, Sweden, 2013
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  'Swarming roadblocks' Extinction Rebellion, (UK) (23 November 2018).

See also

• Roads portal

• Road traffic control
• Barricade
• Boom barrier
• Braess's paradox
• Illinois v. Lidster
• Safety barrier
• Traffic break

References

1. Who Approves of Those Who Block Roads to Protest in the Americas? http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/IO921en.pdf
2. Clearing the Path for Land Rights, One Road Block at a Time: How Peru's Indigenous Population can Assert Their Land Rights Against Peru's Government, 1 Global Bus. L. Rev. 229 (2010-2011)

External links

• Media related to Road blocking barriers at Wikimedia Commons