There is a discussion at the end of the book about what the correct road-building policy should be.
At first, the bureaucrats flatly rejected Mr Koizumi's push to privatise these road-building enterprises.
Second, the bureaucrats say they will accept privatisation only if existing road-building plans do not change.
The European Commission says it has interrupted funding worth 957.2m euros for road-building in Poland.
Road-building at more than 200 separate points across the city of 7.4m people is choking traffic.
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Car ownership and use has continued to rise even as road-building levelled off in the 1990s.
To address a big weakness of the previous government, road-building, an able minister, Kamal Nath, was appointed.
But if they can, they would cause more, not less, concern about the ecological effects of road-building.
Opposition politicians have called for the head of the state road-building agency GDDKiA to resign over the affair.
But it has so far rested on vigorous programmes, such as road-building and immunisation, rather than new institutions.
Plans for a major road-building project linking Heysham and Morecambe to the M6 have been approved by the government.
One of his teams is surveying a vast honeycomb of Graeco-Roman tombs that was accidentally exposed by a road-building crew.
The newly-secure, post-war Sierra Leone has attracted considerable foreign investment and the government has been credited with a big road-building programme.
There, say locals (though some have since retracted), police have been murdering farmers who refuse to give up land for road-building.
His effort to break up and privatise the road-building agency, the Japan Public Highway Corporation, had to be heavily watered down.
Road-building, stock-grazing and fire suppression have disturbed the natural life cycle of the woods, which are now clogged with young growth.
Three young men said their entire crew on a road-building project on Moscow's outskirts was put on a bus to Luzhniki stadium.
Ten construction firm managers and a former director of the Polish state road-building agency have been charged with attempting to fix prices.
Nobody knows this better than Sir Gordon Wu, the founder of Hopewell Holdings, one of the region's biggest power and road-building firms.
Around 20 Chinese companies are working in Myanmar on scores of projects including hydropower, mining and road-building as well as oil and gas.
There were to be no private roads, and the government would ensure that road-building in every state was done to a single standard.
It was Thatcher who insisted that 'nothing can stop the great car economy' and her ministers who announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans'.
The Suharto children enjoyed dozens of special arrangements, ranging from a monopoly in cloves (which Indonesians use in cigarettes) to privileged access to road-building contracts.
His suicide seemed linked to accusations that he had been fiddling his expenses, and was involved in a scandal about rigged bidding for road-building contracts.
Similar complaints are levelled against transport spending plans: road-building schemes in the west of Scotland are getting much more money than is Edinburgh and its hinterland.
We experienced the greatest road-building boom since the Roman Empire.
Despite a big road-building programme, mostly paid for by the European Union, Polish roads are among the worst in the EU: 35 people died on them over Easter.
But while the campaign against more and more road-building may appear to have been won, persuading motorists to leave their cars at home is likely to prove more difficult.
Downing Street's insistence that those who use the M25 orbital road around London could make or break Labour's election chances has meant that renewed emphasis has been given to road-building.
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