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.
Congestion isn't an environmental problem; it's a driving problem. Traffic jams can actually be environmentally beneficial if they turn subways, buses...
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...
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.
Here are tips on some shortcuts, preferred routes and secrets for driving in 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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
The simple fact of the matter is, parades are an archaic ritual, which are not only annoying, they're costly.
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?
NEW YORK — Retail gasoline prices continued to climb Friday ahead of the Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of America's summer drivi...
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.
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.
Let's relax. Traffic is traffic and we can't change it. If we relaxed, traffic might even flow better.
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...
2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.
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.
In the eighty-one years the Academy has been handing out awards, just 14 Hispanics have been nominated for acting Oscars. The last was Adriana Barraza in 2007 for Babel.
Beijing is so desperate to get high-polluting cars off the roads, the city has devised a scheme that will pay citizens as much as $3600 to give up hea...
Nash's trademark high harmony vocals and impressive writing talents fluidly traverse the box set's newly-mastered, 64 tracks with career highlights... and remixes galore.
