Public works officials said that more roads were being closed than opened due to unstable soil conditions.
Sir Rod Eddington's equally weighty review of Britain's decrepit transport network recommended bigger airports and more roads.
Texas has almost no federal land, so its wide-open spaces tend to be criss-crossed by more roads.
Germany: At the 2011 International Transport Forum, Asian delegates argue strenuously that their citizens need more roads, more cars.
And more roads need not conflict with the aim of tackling global warming.
Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Norman Baker said if Mr Blair was sincere he would scrap government plans for more roads and airport terminals.
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The more roads and drivers a state has, the more federal money it receives, explains Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation, which funds infrastructure research.
The more roads were built, the more valuable a car became.
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Cyclists themselves say the government should spend more money on making existing roads more accommodating for bicycles.
Tests indicate that up to 65% more closed roads are identified when using TomTom HD Traffic 6.0 compared to HD Traffic 5.0.
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About 10, 000 grit bins and salt heaps are provided by the council so residents can treat public pavements and more minor roads.
Additionally, the on-screen speed limit display will help to keep you from becoming a traffic issue yourself, a nice feature that we wish worked on more secondary roads.
More toll-funded roads wouldn't necessarily mean more toll plazas clogging our highways.
No-one expects motorists to pay more for new roads or air passengers to pay for new runways.
Countries in Europe and Russia invest more in their roads and railways than we do.
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There will be more money for roads and for looking after vulnerable children, adults and older people.
Distractions like using mobile phones and other electronics behind the wheel also make our roads more hazardous.
More than 130 Roads Service gritters have been in operation across Northern Ireland in a bid to clear the snow.
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The government believes larger police forces will be in a better position to tackle terrorism, organised crime and police the roads more effectively.
However, it is not just the U.S. that hungers for more or better roads, rail, ocean- and airports, power, water and telecom networks.
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The county council has also put a number of agricultural contractors on standby to clear more remote rural roads in the event of heavy snow.
He said the volume of traffic "was making the roads more difficult for the rest of us" and said he was open to all responses except on whether the permit scheme should go ahead.
It is pledging to do more to fix the state of the roads and to provide more school places.
When we arrived at the top, however, the path branched out into more narrow, winding roads.
More than two dozen roads were closed and about 45 businesses will be closed by Friday.
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However, industry experts said problems would get worse unless roads had more than "quick-fix patches".
One cannot imagine many more cars on the roads of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
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This will require better roads and more rural health clinics that are fully resourced and staffed.
Such institutions were more concerned with bankrolling roads, bridges and factories than attending to their bottom line.
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