The Michigan Department of State Highways and Transportation backed the proposal with the support of local officials around the highway and the highway lobby.

For a long time I assumed that this was a promotional message on behalf of the highway lobby.

The highway lobby's predictable outrage notwithstanding, fuel expense is an insignificant fraction of the total cost of owning and operating a motor vehicle in this country.

And the rail line's quest for money has made the highway lobby - oil companies, car manufacturers, construction interests and others - a little nervous.

Now Amtrak, the intercity people-mover struggling to gain its financial footing, is at the mercy of the highway lobby and their loyal legislators.

Even the Sierra Club, not usually associated with the highway lobby, sees the need.

The highway lobby is so riled by Kasich's stand that it recently ran a series of radio spots against him on stations in Columbus.

The real contract was between Congress and the highway lobby.

First he satisfied the highway lobby by endorsing the bill.

Whatever its name becomes, inhabitants of this wretched region, destined to be crushed in the highway lobby's coils of serpentine concrete, will be stigmatized by the embrace.