Topic: highway
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Tunnel Opening of the Day: Bypassing Highway 1's Least Reliable Stretch
Today marks the end of roughly 75 years of on-again-off-again road closures in a suburb of San Francisco.
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Postcard
A Truck Filled With Fireworks Explodes, Destroys Highway
The blast was so strong it sent some cars flying off the bridge, and still more trucks were found crushed underneath the debris.
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Terrifying: Half of L.A.'s Crashes Are Hit and Runs
It's by far the highest rate in the country.
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Urban Wonk
What Should Become of Route 66?
The old highway could be cleaned up to promote economic vitality in rural communities.
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Boston's Highway That Went Nowhere: Lessons from the Inner Belt Fight, 40 Years Later
In the 1950s and 1960s, as Boston was busy razing the West End and plunging ahead with urban renewal, transportation planners were pushing an 8-lane bypass highway.
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Bad Review of the Day: New Haven's Reviled Urban Highway Replacement
The city won a grant to replace its highway with a walkable downtown, but one group raises several concerns about the new plan.
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Can Urban Highways Be Fixed?
They don't cut down on traffic or make travel faster, and they should be replaced.
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Does Light Rail Really Alleviate Highway Congestion?
At the very least, it seems to slow the rise of highway traffic, according to a new report.
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2011's Biggest Transportation Failures
The end of the Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail line, the death of a pedestrian near Atlanta and other low points from the year in city travel
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Chicago Will Let Buses Ride the Shoulder to Beat the Rush
A growing number of cities are letting buses cruise highway shoulders to improve service
