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Quote of the Day: David Mirvish on Urban Congestion and Driving Downtown

One would think that a guy who owns a pile of downtown theatres would want clear fast roads for his suburban customers. Not so.
New Light Rail Line Approved In Toronto Over Mayor's Objections in the Continuing War On The Car

Mayor claims citizens "don’t want these damn streetcars clogging up our city!” Others disagree.
Watching Transit in Action: Rush Hour Squeezed Into Less Than A Minute

A computer programmer gives us a new view of the city's transit system, a rush hour compressed into fifty-seven seconds.
Clever Dutch 'Traffic Garden' From 1950s Teaches Children About Road Safety

It's a great idea to teach children about road safety (on foot, bikes, and in cars) long before they apply for their driver's license. This makes the road safer for everybody, and encourages biking.
BlackBerry Outage Made Roads Safer for Everybody

Making the road safer for pedestrians and cyclists will encourage green alternatives to cars.
Does Kicking Hybrid Drivers Out of Carpool Lanes Make Traffic Worse for Everyone?

Up until recently, California has been allowing single occupants to drive in the carpool lanes as long as they are driving gasoline-electric hybrids. But as of July 1st 2011, solo hybrid drivers were no longer entitled to
GM's Super-Smart Pod Vehicle Looks at Future Transportation

An end to gridlock. An end to accidents. An end to driving. In fact you can conduct a video conference in traffic, and this podcar parks itself. As GM readies to roll out its electric mini-car, the Chevy Spark, as reported in Treehugger last week, its
UK Man Mounts Traffic War Using Pedestrian Crosswalk Button (And Wins. Sort Of.)

You would think the residents of Chideock, a small town in Dorset in the UK, would have been happy. After many, many years of heavy traffic making it difficult to simply cross the road, they received a
LA Uses Scare Tactics to Reduce Traffic, Discovers "Carmaheaven"

Los Angeles has finally found a way to cut down traffic: terror. The announcement that ten miles of Interstate 405 would be shut down for 53 hours was accompanied by a public three month long
Building More Roads Leads to More Traffic

Here at TreeHugger, we talk quite a bit about the causes and problems with roads and traffic, and we've seen how effective congestion pricing can be. Here's one more study showing that more roads are not the answer to our
Is Living In A City Making You Crazy?

With more than 50% of the world's population currently living in cities and 70% of the world population expected to live in a city by 2050, neurologists are starting to map out the impact of living in
Extreme Road Rage in Moscow Sparks Backlash

Plenty of the world's cities are known for their congested roads and insane traffic jams -- Beijing, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Istanbul all come readily to mind. But in Moscow, elites are taking their desire to avoid traffic to deadly extremes.
Los Angeles's Subway To The Sea In Its Final Planning Miles

Today's LA Marathon followed a "Stadium to the Sea" route that has been in effect since 2009. The route was designed to showcase the City's landmarks from the East to the West. While looking at the map,
Can Parking Garages Be Architectural and Green?

Since cars and parking lots are not going to disappear, let's appreciate the good ones. In South Beach, Miami, they have parking garages that are architectural and green. They are low-rise, well-designed, hold lots of cars and they
Beijing Controls Car Purchases To Tame Traffic

The city of Beijing plans to issue only 20,000 car registrations per month (that's still a whopping 240,000 new cars annually) over the next year in order to control traffic. China is
Taj Mahal Threatened by Pollution

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India is one of the world's great sights, but it is in danger of being irreparably damaged by air and water pollution.
Test-Driving the Better Place Electric Vehicle Experience (Plus: See Their Roadside Battery-Swap Station in Action)

Traffic crawled along the beltway outside Tel Aviv as the sun set in bright orange streaks behind the city. I sat with a group of journalists
Is Winter Traffic Chaos "Our Fault"?

This time last year I had just survived a two-night ordeal trying to get through the snowed-in mountains of West Virginia. It caused me to reflect on the inconceivability of immobility