The Backdrop
Sunday, March 4, 2007; Page B08
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President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget proposal would fund pilot projects that encourage metropolitan areas to experiment with congestion charging as a way to reduce traffic.
The White House estimated that in 2003 American motorists in the 85 most-clogged metropolitan areas wasted 3.7 billion hours and 2.3 billion gallons of gasoline stuck in traffic.
