0 a raised area in the middle of a road for separating traffic travelling in different directions, and sometimes where people who are crossing the road can wait safely for traffic to go past:
The carriageways were separated by traffic islands to make overtaking impossible.
When she reached the traffic island in the middle of the road she looked in the direction the traffic was supposed to come from.
Three tourists were trapped on a traffic island and lorry drivers were roaring past hurling abuse at them.
A gang of masked men in a stolen car rammed a motorist yesterday causing him to crash into a traffic island.
The troublesome traffic island on West Street was finally removed.
The experimental traffic island has proved of considerable benefit to pedestrians, but other traffic has not been materially assisted.
A traffic island will not touch the problem for pedestrians, and it will be a danger to motorists.
A traffic island would be ridiculous on a road of this busy-ness, with traffic going at speed despite the 40 miles an hour limit.
An immediate easement of the flow of traffic can sometimes be made by merely reducing the size of a traffic island.
He may think that a traffic island, a bollard or a pavement is two or three feet forward or backward of its actual position.
