As Evelyn Marcoux was saying earlier, the Americans have a presidential permit process, and the U.S. federal government steps in when a bridge is going to be constructed or if there are major alterations on the bridge. After that, they delegate that authority to the local states, and it's up to the local states then to be concerned about traffic flow and the efficiency. We've been down to Washington and we've explained what we're doing. They've been very interested, but as of today, the efficiency and fluidity of traffic remains with individual states.
On May 11th, 2006. See this statement in context.