It's the typical transportation concerns: greater congestion, greater delays and air pollution. Some solutions are going on now, but they are not enough.

Our budget on an annual basis this past year is $660,000. We currently have expended $400,000 over that budget.

It ends up resulting in a reduction in what we're able to accomplish, because we have to make adjustments with our budget to stay within budget and deliver services that are needed.

I'm not sure people made the decision not to get in their cars that quickly.

What this report shows is that with careful government regulation, companies can lower the pollution coming from power plants smokestacks - and we should be doing this with greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, too.

The Bay is cleaner than it was 40 years ago when raw sewage and industrial pollution were dumped directly into it. While the pollution from business and point sources is strictly regulated, storm water pollution from our cars, homes and neighborhoods is still a major problem.