Raising the limit may not increase the number of cars that a motorway can carry, since stopping distances lengthen at high speed and cars are supposed to travel farther apart.
Representatives of the Fed had already been dispatched to the "big five" Wall Street banks, making sure they increase their liquidity and lengthen the terms of their financing so they can weather the credit crisis.
The alternative is to lengthen criminal trials beyond what is tolerable by vetting topics in closed sessions before they can be presented in open ones.