Americans living in the fifty most congested cities spend an average of thirty-three hours each year stuck in traffic. Congestion causes much more than driver aggravation: air quality suffers, vehicle idling and stop-and-go traffic reduce fuel...

Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. It focuses mainly on research and construction of the immobile infrastructure necessary for this...

Victims of a 2003 crash in which an elderly driver plowed into a crowded farmers market can sue the city of Santa Monica for failing to protect them, a state appeals court ruled.The ruling by the 2nd District Court of Appeals reinstated allegations that the...

And Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, passses on a eulogy to the Village's departed éminence grise. Read both of them after the jump. Jane Jacobs was a friend to cities at a time when they sorely needed one....

For almost a century, Loveland was just a sweet little town built by farmers growing sugar beets. By the time the industry faded in the 1980s, farmers were replaced by artists, specifically sculptors. There are some $6 million worth of...

For decades, dating back to the Koch administration, plans for a 42nd Street river-to-river light-rail system have periodically been proposed every few years, only to go off the tracks. Now, proponents of a new 42nd Street corridor light-rail system, perhaps emboldened by the banishment of...