  urlLink In Houston, Residents Cringe as They Ponder the Gridlock to Come : "Roadway expansion and tracks for a new light rail line have disrupted traffic for years in the city, the nation's fourth most populous and with more square miles (about 600) than Los Angeles (about 475). But two projects in particular have led residents to sue. One involves a notoriously clogged intersection of Interstate 10, the east-west highway known as the Katy Freeway that bisects Houston, and the 610 Loop that rings the city. In a federal lawsuit filed in October, residents asserted that the Federal Highway Administration and the Texas Department of Transportation had expanded the scope of its reconstruction without proper environmental review. The other involves a rebuilding of the Highway 59 spur to downtown. Shutting down all or most of that roadway — again without proper environmental review, residents claim in another lawsuit — would divert onto local streets more than 40,000 cars each way daily. " 
