The crossing is renowned as a major traffic bottleneck, with many people blaming the toll stations.

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The council said the exisiting "traffic bottleneck" in Ely would have become a greater problem with increasing use of rail networks through the area.

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The proposed one-mile (1.7km) bypass to the A142, which carries about 15, 000 vehicles per day, is the council's preferred option for dealing with the "traffic bottleneck" near Ely's railway station.

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"The risk of orchestrated systems--and the reason that we're all trying to move toward more choreography--is that you can get a bottleneck if the traffic cop can only handle so much traffic at one time, " says Page.

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Most Internet traffic comes from outside India, and thus hits the bottleneck of India's publicly owned telecoms companies, which have a monopoly of long-distance telephony and international data exchange.

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