Gridlock (novel) the inventor of a hydrogen-based power system for cars – green energy – that sinister forces, most likely representing the oil industry, seek to suppress. His disability is aggressive-sympathetically handled, for example he actively embraces the word 'spastic', claiming it back, taking it away from the term of abuse it had become (in the UK) at the time of publication. Gridlock (novel) Gridlock is a 1991 novel by Ben Elton. The novel depicts a near-future London in which traffic congestion has reached almost critical levels, such that accidents in a few key places could bring the entire city's traffic network
Gridlock (Doctor Who) Martha; he feels guilty for lying to her and bringing her to New New York just to show off and realises that he misses her when she is taken. Davies stated that he based many aspects of New New York on Mega-City One from the anthology comic "2000 AD", including the businessman's appearance on Max Normal from the "Judge Dredd" comic books. The numbered mood patches parallel the number coded mood controllers in the Ninth Doctor novel "Only Human" by Gareth Roberts; Davies confirms that this was his inspiration. The character of Sally Calypso was an homage to "Halo Jones",