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How to make congestion pricing seem fun and fair [VIDEO]
A pair of slightly weird videos manage to make road pricing both entertaining and easy to understand.
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A moment of autocentric lunacy at the Rally to Restore Sanity
There may have been lots of lucid thinking at Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity, but comparing Americans to cars stuck in traffic wasnt an example
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'20 is Plenty' campaign takes crazy stance against running over children
Hoboken, N.J., launched a "Twenty is Plenty" campaign to ask drivers to voluntarily slow down to 20 mph where the limit is 25.
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Thumb on the scale in the comparison of fuel taxes and efficiency standards?
A new review of the literature by Resources for the Future suggests that gas taxes motivate drivers to use less gasoline far more cheaply than auto efficiency standards like CAFE. There are a number of reasons to be suspicious of this conclusion.
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Will Los Angeles ever be something besides a "suburban metropolis"?
In the Los Angeles Times, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne writes about the widening gap between those who favor a denser, more pedestrian-friendly LA and those who would prefer to remain in their cars.
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Woman prizes car over skull
A Maine woman was badly bruised when a bullet fired by her neighbor ricocheted onto her property and hit her in the face. What really concerned her, though, was the damage done to her car.
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'The car is a kind of shield that deflects empathy'
The new photo series "Lee Friedlander: America by Car" shows how our mode of transportation shapes our experience of the world.
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Digital entrepreneurs want to change the way New Yorkers hail a cab
What if the solutions to America's transportation problems weren't made out of concrete and steel, but out of zeros and ones? What if you could turn car services and taxis into an alternate public transportation system -- by creating an iPhone app?
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New Portland grocery store has more parking for bikes than cars
A grocery store in Portland, Ore., is opening a new store that features more bike spots than parking spaces.
