We are not alone in this. Bad transportation policy, mostly in the form of huge public transit subsidies, took over the nation in the last 25 years. Now we are experiencing the result, which is severe traffic congestion. Here are some specifics from the Federal Highway Administration and the American Public Transit Administration:

» Between 1961 and 2003, the United States doubled in population but transit trips remained the same. (Transit trips are those made primarily in public buses, metro rail, light rail and commuter rail systems.) Funding for these trips grew 5.3 times, from $7.4 billion to $39.8 billion in constant 2001 dollars.

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LOGAN - Though it will play differently when it airs on national television, the arrival of the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" bus in Logan on Sunday will hardly be a surprise to those involved.

Cleanup already has begun at the home of the winning family - whose identity is being kept hidden - to prepare for the project, which calls for removal of the existing house and construction of a new one in one short week.

On Friday the trees surrounding the home had been trimmed to make way for the heavy equipment.
When ABC's Ty Pennington and his crew roll up Sunday, operators and their bulldozers will be on site to raze the home. Construction workers and hundreds of student volunteers from Utah State University and Logan High also will help with the fast-track project.

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Ranchi, Oct 14. (PTI): Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Stephen Marandi on Friday said the previous NDA Government had left the state with a "debt". "I don't know how much debt the Government owes to the Centre, but this much I know that the State is in debt and I inherit an empty coffer despite the previous Government having three supplementary budgets", said Marandi, who would take charge of the Finance Department today. "I have to do a lot of home work to set things right first", Marandi told PTI in reply to a query on his priorities as Finance Minister. To a query on the UPA Government having two deputy Chief Ministers that had not gone down well with Enos Ekka, Marandi said "It's not a new thing (in the country). There has been precedence like this". Ekka, who holds the rural development, transport and building construction departments, on Friday made a sarcastic remark saying "why not have five Deputy Chief Ministers instead of two".

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BridgeWave Communications, Inc. announces that the City of Oxnard, California has installed four BridgeWave GE60 gigabit wireless bridges to ensure network continuity throughout city building reconstruction. BridgeWave point-to-point wireless links connect LANs between buildings at full-rate Gigabit Ethernet LAN speeds, with the security and reliability of fiber cabling.

"I needed a fiber alternative solution that could be quickly implemented, would support the rigid building construction plans and avoid any potential fiber cuts that might be caused by the heavy equipment moving around the area. Backhoes and bulldozers are threats to any terrestrial fiber connection and my team did not have the time or money to install alternative fiber routes," stated Tara Willis, the City's IT Systems Administrator.

Alberta, Ontario push non-residential construction to another ...

OTTAWA (CP) - Heavy spending on office buildings in Alberta and Ontario pushed investment in non-residential building construction to another record high between July and September.

Provincially, the biggest third-quarter dollar increase by far occurred Alberta, where investment in non-residential building construction rose seven per cent to $1.7 billion, a ninth straight quarterly gain; British Columbia was a distant second, increasing investment 2.6 per cent to $1.3 billion.