Stalled

摘要

It sounds like good news. In 2007, for the first time in 16 years, congestion in America's 439 recognised urban areas actually declined. The finding came in a report published on July 8th by the Texas Transportation Institute, which for years has rung an alarm bell from central Texas in the hope that those in Washington, dc, will hear. Politicians usually shake their heads over the institute's findings, but do little else. With the publication of this report, it might seem that fuel prices have solved the problem. Unfortunately they have not.