Partly because Mr. Bush did not want to add to those clogged highways, he stayed away from Houston and the rest of the affected region.

At first the path was not promising, with scrub brush to the right and a clogged highway to the left.

There wasn't time to ask what she meant, so I didn't mention our weekend retreat - or our contribution to Long Island's clogged highways.

Outside Pittsburgh, for example, electronic signs on Interstate 80 warned motorists for miles ahead of time to expect clogged highways on the way to the airport.

Hours earlier tens of thousands of anxious residents evacuated inland along clogged highways.

But to commuters who creep toward Honolulu on those clogged highways before the sun has risen over the Pacific, the idea is not so hard to imagine.

But these days, real estate professionals say, some home hunters are far more daunted by clogged highways and the difficulty of parking close to work.

A1 In southern Lebanon, a clogged highway going north.

Mr. Van Houweling's plan is to add high-speed lanes to the clogged electronic highway that today's Internet has become.

The city could be a transportation nirvana compared with the clogged highways in suburbia.