A California appeals court affirmed that Uber must comply with San Francisco’s administrative subpoenas for data and records provided to the California Public Utility Commission, as the city and county have broad authority to investigate entities they suspect of violating the law, and had reasonable suspicion that “transportation networking companies” were responsible for most of the city’s moving violations.
Read moreAndrew Hardy was crossing the street on an electric scooter in downtown Los Angeles when a car struck him at 50 miles per hour and flung him 15 feet in the air before he smacked his head on the pavement and fell unconscious
Read moreA ubiquitous sight and sound of the summer, New York City’s fleet of ice cream trucks saw their ranks cut by 46 Wednesday with a lawsuit alleging that they ducked nearly $4.5 million in traffic summonses through a web of shell companies.
Read moreCampaigners fighting British government plans to expand Heathrow Airport lost a challenge in one of the country’s highest courts on Wednesday, in a decision which deemed the expansion lawful.
Read moreTaking a small step toward protecting the lives of “smartphone zombies,” Tel Aviv has installed special LED sidewalk lights to alert distracted pedestrians staring at their phones when they can walk and when they should stop.
Read moreContesting a limit on how many ride-share car licenses it gets in the Big Apple, Uber claims in court that New York City is blaming it for traffic-congestion problems, without supporting data.
Read moreAn 11th Circuit panel appeared highly unsympathetic Tuesday to Alabama drivers who argue a city ordinance unlawfully imposes fines on motorists caught by automated red-light cameras without giving them the right to confront their accuser.
Read moreA major commuter highway on downtown Seattle’s waterfront will shut down for good Friday, ushering in what officials say will be one of the most painful traffic periods in the history of the booming Pacific Northwest city.
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Luxembourg is planning to become the first nation in the world to make all of its public transportation free. Starting in 2020, the government says, it will do away with fares on trains, trams and buses, to encourage people to use public transportation rather than cars.
Read moreUber launched a new minibus service on Tuesday in traffic-mad Cairo, Egypt’s capital and one of the U.S. ride-sharing giant’s fastest-growing markets.
Read moreA pair of Republicans who caused a massive traffic jam in New Jersey to punish a political opponent of then-Governor Chris Christie failed Tuesday to unravel the bulk of their convictions at the Third Circuit.
Read moreParis, the City of Lights, is pushing to become a city without so many car lights. Since taking office in 2014, Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo has pushed to remove more vehicles, especially gas-powered ones, from the boulevards of Paris, one of Europe’s most congested and smog-laden cities.
Read moreDevelopers brought a federal complaint against Defense Secretary James Mattis, challenging the closure and transfer of Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach to allow development of 12,272 residential units and 6.1 million square-feet of commercial space on 5,000 acres “along one of the most congested transportation arteries in the nation.”
Read moreThe New York City Council passed a package of bills Wednesday that made it first major city in the U.S. on Wednesday to put a cap on new vehicles for hire, like Uber and Lyft.
Read moreAppointing a panel to hold hearings on the issue, the New Jersey Supreme Court suggested Thursday wiping the slate clean for people who were charged years ago with minor municipal offenses like traffic tickets.
Read moreJust over a week after its first effort foundered at the Ohio Supreme Court, the city of Toledo brought a constitutional complaint to revive its program of issuing traffic tickets with unmanned cameras.
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A Ford Motors expert on self-driving cars said Tuesday that the advent of autonomous vehicles could exacerbate traffic congestion and pollution unless the cars are electric and people share rides.
Read moreA federal judge issued a blistering condemnation Friday of a New Jersey court that unconstitutionally jails people who cannot pay littering fines.
Read moreThe estate of a police officer killed by a drunk driver in a wrong-way crash sued two Iowa cities, claiming they were negligent in designing a “confusing” interstate interchange that routes cars to the left of oncoming traffic.
Read moreWhile the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra remains a family-oriented community, many residents believe it’s only a matter of time before the development boom transforming much of Southern California changes their city – and not necessarily for good.
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