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04/26/2004 08:43 9196443002 OR. CTY. PLANNING PAGE 04/06 <br />printer-friendly story Page 3 of 3 <br />Traffic congestion is a key contributor to ozone pollution. The U.S. Environmental <br />Protection Agency is scheduled to impose new air quality standards today that <br />will require action to clean the Triangle's air. Business leaders plan to raise that <br />issue as they try to sell legislators and taxpayers on the need for more <br />transportation money. <br />"We have to define the issue," Cisco <br />study commission member, said in ai <br />We've got pinch-points of congestion <br />systems that don't necessarily match <br />Systems executive Joseph A. Freddoso, a <br />i interview. "Now we've got air quality. <br />around the Triangle, We've got transit <br />up to one another. <br />"We've got to show people a path of funding that is going to lead to [improving] <br />all those things," Freddoso said, "and then move forward with some flexibility that <br />is going to help us attain those things," <br />© Copyright 2004, The News & Observer Publishing Company, All material faund on <br />trian4le.com (including newsobserver.com, ca_rynews.com, chapelhillnews.com, <br />smithfieldherald.com, and easternwakenews,:com) is capyrighted The News ~ Observer <br />Publishing Company and assaciated news services. No material may be reproduced or <br />reused withaut explicit permission from The News & Observer Publishing Company, Raleigh, <br />North Carolina. <br />The News & Observer Publishing Company is owned by The McClatchy Comoanv <br />[BACK] <br />http://un~w..news-observer. com/front/digesUv-print/story/351.3724p-3117276c,html 4/19/2004 <br />