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That’s blocking the box, gridlock is just bumper to bumper traffic going stop and go in any condition.
Congestion is vehicles still in motion, but slowed down due to volume.
No, that's definitely gridlock, blocking the box is just another name for it.
If there is a specific term, why continue to use the dated generic term that also means something else? A specific type of gridlock can also be blocking the box, it’s a generic term now.
I don't know what to tell you, I'd literally never heard of," blocking the box," until you said it. Meanwhile, Gridlock is so ubiquitous and well understood that, as your quote points out, it's a universal metaphor for a blockage or impass.
Also, if we just accept this vague use of gridlock, (I've never heard anyone is it for anything other than actual gridlock, but whatever) you realize that this quote explicitly states that some people use, "gridlock," and, "traffic congestion," interchangeably, meaning your claim thar, "gridlock," means "stop and go traffic," not, "contested traffic," is flat out wrong, right?