Archive for November 6th, 2007

Safe Streets? Debate continues as cycling numbers hit record high

A “Ghost Bike” at North Interstate and Greeley honored a life lost. The ten speed, spray-painted white, was drenched in flowers, personal notes and photographs. Cyclist Brett Jarolimek was killed at the intersection October 22nd.

Safe Streets? Debate continues as cycling numbers hit record high

Why aren’t traffic lights better synchronized?

“Conditions change, particularly because of the seasonality; so we go out and we use computer programs to try to figure out what the proper progression is because it’s a very complicated mathematical thing trying to get the signals to go particularly when you have traffic going both ways.”

Why aren’t traffic lights better synchronized?

Cow falls off cliff and crashes onto van on highway, motorists unhurt

Charles and Linda Everson were driving back to their hotel when their minivan was struck by a falling object — a 600-pound (272-kilogram) cow.

Cow falls off cliff and crashes onto van on highway, motorists unhurt

Gas prices leaving your wallet on ‘E’

“Speeding and rapid acceleration waste gas, and can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent on highways and five percent in stop-and-go traffic.”

Gas prices leaving your wallet on ‘E’

Speed limit ‘could be raised without safety issues’

The speed limit for motorways in the UK could go up without causing an increased risk to drivers, it has been claimed.  According to the Association of British Drivers (ABD), authorities should not consider speeding to be a major factor in road collisions.

Speed limit ‘could be raised without safety issues’

Slower I-35 part of deal on toll road

The privatization contract for Texas 130 from Austin to Seguin, cutting a parallel path east of I-35, was quietly signed in March amid a legislative furor over whether to freeze such agreements. It includes a controversial clause that penalizes the state for widening or building competing roads.

Slower I-35 part of deal on toll road

Opinion: The Roads Have Eyes

Your days of being pulled over for speeding are numbered. That would be great news, except in an increasing number of states the flashing red and blue lights in your rear-view mirror are being replaced by the photographic flash of traffic cameras.

Opinion: The Roads Have Eyes

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