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United Nations General Assembly Brings Traffic Headaches

World leaders are descending on the city this week for the United Nations General Assembly, bringing major traffic tie-ups and gridlock on the east side of Manhattan.

Worst traffic jam ever? Gridlock spans 60 miles in China; Motorists play card games and chess to pass time

A traffic jam stretching more than 60 miles in China has entered its ninth day with no end in sight, state media reported.

22 seniors found living in 'squalid' conditions at unlicensed California group home

CHRIS RICHARD and LESLIE PARILLA The Press-Enterprise 09/04/2009
22 seniors found living in 'squalid' conditions at unlicensed California group home

Twenty-two people were found Friday living in chicken coops that had been converted into rooms as part of an unlicensed group home in San Bernardino, officials said.

Distracted Driving the Top Reason that 35 Percent of Drivers Feel Less Safe than Five Years Ago, According to the AAA Foundation

-five percent of drivers said they feel less safe than they did five years ago, according to the second-annual 2009 Traffic Safety Culture Index released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Overall, the majority of American motorists report that they feel no safer now than they did five years ago.

NYC Mayor Plans to Close Parts of Broadway to Traffic

WILLIAM NEUMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO The New York Times 02/25/2009
Seattle Launches Own Traffic Web Site

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) launched the Traveler’s Information Web site Thursday.

NYC Mayor Plans to Close Parts of Broadway to Traffic

The city plans to close several blocks of Broadway to vehicle traffic through Times Square and Herald Square, an experiment that would turn swaths of the Great White Way into pedestrian malls and continue Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s effort to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown.

New York City Grew, but Traffic Didn’t

WILLIAM NEUMAN The New York Times 12/14/2008
 
New York City Grew, but Traffic Didn’t

As the city’s economy soared and its population grew from 2003 through 2007, something unusual was happening on the streets and in the subway tunnels. All those tens of thousands of new jobs and residents meant that more people were moving around the city, going to work, going shopping, visiting friends. And yet, according to a new city study, the volume of traffic on the streets and highways remained largely unchanged, in fact declining slightly. Instead, virtually the entire increase in New Yorkers’ means of transportation during those robust years occurred in mass transit, with a surge in subway, bus and commuter rail riders.