This article from the February 6, 2006 edition of the Sun Herald in Mississippi tells how the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is changing its ways from the days when they "rammed a bunch of highways and bridges down communities' throats".
From the July 20th, 1994 opinion section of The Gainsville (Florida) Sun, this letter to the editor sums up the unsustainable cycle of building bigger roads only to find that what you get is bigger traffic.