1.   Work on the new freeway project began yesterday.

2.   A less dramatic slump might force rearrangement of certain freeway projects, putting off big-dollar items until revenues rebound.

3.   Air pollution is getting so bad that opposition is mounting to the proposed Outer Perimeter, another colossal freeway project to encourage suburban sprawl.

4.   The city bought the parcels decades ago in anticipation of a freeway project that never happened.

5.   Twenty years of neglect followed, and various owners attempted to keep the house standing by fighting the freeway project.