Abandoned Freeways
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Several cities are tearing down highways, creating bold new public spaces -- and building a future without cars
There was a time when, far from being a defining characteristic of the city's landscape, freeways were merely an experimental impulse of traffic engineers.
From induced demand to reduced demand
Professors team with students to research and share College history
Flashback Photos: The evolution of the metro Atlanta freeway and interstate highway system starting in the 1950s
Portland's $500 million Rose Quarter Freeway Widening Project is being sold as a way to reduce congestion: But it won't work In three recent commentaries a
Tim Ryan’s job takes him all across the county – from the heavily traveled I-405 to the 22, home of the congested Orange Crush.Installing flooring, Ryan, who is based out of Huntington Beach, sometimes has to drive up to Bakersfield or down to San Diego. He said he begins his day earlier to avoid the traffic […]
Orange County is home to the 37th most congested freeway in the nation, while a Los Angeles corridor near the Getty claimed the No. 1 spot, according to an Inrix Inc. study.O.C. motorists were delayed about nine minutes and traveled at an average speed of 30 mph during peak hours when driving along the northbound […]
Freeways Never Built, or Unbuilt after 1989 quake - FoundSF
The cigarettes that are detrimental to your health are also littering Arizona freeways, creating eyesores, leaching chemicals and causing a fire hazard.
Southern California is an urban environment, despite how bucolic or “green” we imagine it to be. The territory has been urban since the onset of the freeways in the late 1940s and 1950s…
Hit the brakes! You're going to want to pull off the interstate for these delicious New Mexico restaurants.
An order issued last week by US district judge David O. Carter asked authorities to form a plan by tomorrow to move the thousands of homeless people living alongside freeways in Los Angeles.
Carpool lanes could be coming to Highway 101 and Interstate 280 in San Francisco.
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Mass acceptance of a new paradigm isn’t easy to predict. Few of us would have ever thought back in 2009 that people would jump in a car with a stranger or pay to sleep in someone else’s spare room halfway around the world. With millions of people embracing both Uber and Airbnb as part of […]
