Four-lane arteries with choking traffic replaced cobblestone lanes.

As evidence, the number of cars have tripled, choking traffic, and cement is in short supply as prosperous-looking houses and industrial parks rise almost at once.

He said he would make an issue of the Republicans' failure to deal with garbage disposal, potential water shortages, choking traffic and lack of low-income housing.

For half an hour the truck rumbled on slowly, stopped and started in the slow-moving, choked traffic.

But the city's middle class, including teachers and government workers, felt increasingly squeezed by escalating property values and taxes and frustrated by choking traffic.

At the same time choking rush-hour traffic and some of the nation's highest housing prices have all but stopped the flow of corporations to the region.

Where Federal money is most popular is in the roadwork that seems always to be trying to catch up with choking traffic.

But the road is also the main route to Bethlehem, and the barrier served to choke traffic to and from the city.

A wave of smugness washes over me as I weave easily through the noisy commuter crowds and choking traffic that stalls everyone else's progress.

The reasons are familiar: choking rush-hour traffic and some of the nation's highest housing prices.