1.   It was like exiting a crowded freeway in Los Angeles onto a wide-open dirt road in rural Indiana.

2.   The shooting of Tavai followed an incident in which the outside mirrors of vehicles driven by the two men clicked together on a crowded freeway in west Dallas.

3.   The Thanksgiving of the future may not require tortured travel through busy airports or crowded freeways.

4.   The train offers commuters an alternative to crowded freeways, said Colin Jones, a spokesman for Caltrans, the state Transportation Department.

5.   They avoid crowded freeways, drive out of their way at times to a less expensive gas station and go to the grocery store only once a week.

6.   He also said his new home would enable him to drive on surface streets, avoiding the crowded freeways.