Nighttime commuters, take note. Beginning in January and lasting for two months, work in the Sepulveda Pass will affect traffic patterns, sometimes sh...
nypost.com | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both still want to charge drivers to go into Manhattan -- and they each said yesterday those fees would have saved t...
Daily Bulletin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green
In as little as three months, the brains of laboratory rats begin to change after being exposed to the air around congested Southern California freewa...
Brady Westwater | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles
Two of the most important decisions any of us ever make is where we decide to live and what job we choose to accept. Rush hour traffic, however, proves how wrong we all can be.
Joe Robinson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles
One of the effects of gridlock that never comes to mind for our city nonplanners is the toll it takes on the arts and cultural events.
Kiri Westby | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Thanksgiving is a joyous occasion, full of laughter and cranberry sauce...once we get there. The getting-there part is usually not so fun, full of stress and traffic, which can put a damper in the joy of the holiday.
Graham Hill | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Slow Food, a great movement to help us appreciate the time it takes to craft and eat healthy, traditional and delicious foods, has also arrived for cars.
Molly Greenwood | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Instead of buying a new car, I bought a Vespa. And you know what? It has turned out to be the perfect complement to my alternative transportation lifestyle.
wsj.com | DAVID OWEN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Congestion isn't an environmental problem; it's a driving problem. Traffic jams can actually be environmentally beneficial if they turn subways, buses...
nytimes.com | Kate Galbraith | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green
States are beginning to address the question of whether hybrid and electric cars should be allowed in remain in carpool lanes as the number of such ve...
David Byrne | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
Does living in New York City foster a hard-as-nails, no nonsense attitude? Is that how one would describe the New York state of mind?
Paul Edelman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green
What is now a refuge for mule deer, hawks, bobcats and other wildlife, can quickly turn into a housing development, if $145,000 is not raised by August 17th.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
Most of the issues of growth, mobility, equity and the environment that we address here are fundamentally regional in character. But our political mechanisms place most of the authority for dealing with them at the smallest levels of local government.
Anna Kelner | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
A subway could not only cleanse Los Angeles' polluted air and clear its congested roads, but could also radically change the way Angelinos relate to one another.
Newsday | ALFONSO A. CASTILLO | Posted 08.09.2009 | New York
Drivers in the New York area wasted nearly 380 million hours stuck in rush-hour traffic in 2007 - second only to those in Los Angeles - according to a...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
The constant danger of accidents heightens our emotional responses to other drivers, and directs our anger and bitterness towards individuals around us instead of towards a traffic-based society.
Nelson Montana | Posted 08.03.2009 | New York
The simple fact of the matter is, parades are an archaic ritual, which are not only annoying, they're costly.
Patrick Boyle | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
Our 6-year-old is enforcing the law from her booster seat again. Who got the bright idea to build Jaycie's literacy skills by encouraging her to read road signs?
AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Retail gasoline prices continued to climb Friday ahead of the Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of America's summer drivi...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment
Though Tori Amos' career may have suffered from being overly prolific and recording some questionable cover songs, every new album is a bouquet of interesting, intelligent songs for her loyal fans.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2009 | Comedy
Given that the team's super-rich owners used taxpayer subsidies to help finance their gilded ballpark, it serves them right that they're losing some revenue.
Laura Trice | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
Let's relax. Traffic is traffic and we can't change it. If we relaxed, traffic might even flow better.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
In the Academy Award winning film Traffic , Michael Douglas plays the nation's new Drug Czar who discovers just how unwinnable The War On Drugs really...
John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment
2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.
www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.15.2009 | Comedy
Dream to meet a beauty in traffic? Just imagine it has happened. What you gonna do further? This simple and funny game will allow you to consider the consequences of various behavior. You will need to choose the variant how to make the girl in the car nearby to pay attention to you.
LAist | Zach Behrens in News on December 28, 2009 11:27 AM | Posted 12.28.2009 | Los Angeles