You propose solving national air-travel gridlock by "expansion of the system's capacity" (editorial, Aug. 11).
BUSINESS travelers, still toting up the fiscal and psychological costs of the summer's air-travel gridlock, are soon going to be hearing a lot more about the future promise of "high-speed rail".
Further heavy snowfalls across the UK have brought severe travel disruption with roads gridlocked and trains and flights delayed or cancelled.
For most urban road users, images of gridlock elicit thoughts of freeway travel or downtown commuting, creating a powerful collective conversation about trading off urban opportunity for traffic strife.
The wait times at airport security checkpoints, always a source of grief for air passengers, have gotten so lengthy that airlines and airport operators are protesting and predicting gridlock during the upcoming summer travel season.
The streets became gridlocked and the cortège struggled to travel from Shoreditch mortuary to the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Leytonstone, where she was laid to rest.
As a result, members of Congress, who left town to beat the Thanksgiving travel crush, have a serious case of Capitol Hill gridlock to deal with when they return.
And in Athens and its surrounding communities, there is a sense that many Greeks are shunning the events because they fear that traffic gridlock may make it too difficult to travel to the competition sites.
Gridlock on the capital's roads makes car travel unattractive.
But, honestly, how many inches do you think you can travel in an hour in this town (where the word "gridlock" was coined in 1980)?
Air travel is still projected to grow in the long run, intensifying gridlock.
