Tennessee’s policy of suspending the driver’s licenses of people who have failed to pay fines for certain traffic violations does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, the Sixth Circuit ruled, noting that its ruling on a nearly identical Michigan policy controls the disposition of the case.
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Deadly crashes on highways in the West Texas oil patch have ticked up even as oil production has slowed down, raising concerns about anxiety-fueled distracted drivers.
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The Supreme Court on Monday held it does not violate the Fourth Amendment for a police officer to pull over a car because it is registered to a person with a suspended license, so long as the officer does not have reason to believe someone other than the owner is driving the car.
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The United States and Canada announced Wednesday they will close their shared border to nonessential travel to tamp down on the spread of the novel coronavirus that has gripped the globe.
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Luxembourg will become the first country in the world on Saturday to offer a free public transport system as the government tries to reduce particularly dense car traffic.
Read moreA federal class action claims Chicago and United Road Towing illegally boot, tow, impound and sell cars whose owners cannot afford to pay traffic fines, without proper notice and without a hearing to determine fair compensation.
Read moreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into allegations that all three of Tesla’s electric vehicle models can suddenly accelerate on their own.
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the Bridgegate convictions of two political operatives found to have orchestrated gridlock New Jersey traffic as partisan payback in the name of then-Governor Chris Christie.
Read moreA federal class actions claims New Orleans blew off a court order, upheld on appeal, to return $25.6 million in fines from its Automated Traffic Enforcement System.
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Dummy police are the newest recruits to law enforcement in India’s southern city of Bangalore where authorities have adopted an unusual tactic to fight traffic offenders.
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Ride-hailing pioneer Uber, rather than being part of the solution to urban transport, may be adding to related problems like pollution from diesel cars, a study showed Thursday.
Read moreOfficials in the small west Texas border town of Presidio are preparing for a surge in traffic as the Mexican government considers rerouting drivers who haul scrap vehicles from the U.S. to Central American countries.
Read moreThe New York City Council approved an ambitious new street-safety plan Wednesday that includes 250 miles of new protected bike lanes as well as more space for pedestrians.
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Backing up traffic for the second time in as many weeks, Dutch farmers driving tractors staged a nationwide protest Wednesday over the government’s attempt to lower emissions by limiting the number of farm animals.
Read moreSan Jose, Northern California’s largest city, had 68 inoperable traffic signals during the Thursday morning commute. It snarled traffic worse than usual, and San Jose’s usual is already terrible.
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Tractor-driving farmers descended on the Dutch capital Tuesday morning, creating the worst traffic congestion in the county’s history to protest calls to reduce emissions by drastically cutting the number of farm animals.
Read moreUber et al. sued New York City, challenging its “cruising cap,” which limits the amount of time a car service without a passenger can spend in Manhattan south of 96th Street, in New York County Supreme Court.
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The British government on Thursday insisted that its assessment that there could be food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets if there is a no-deal Brexit is a worst-case scenario — not what is likely to happen.
Read moreIn 2017, people driving to work in the Washington, D.C., metro area each paid an average of $1,840 in extra costs related to being stuck in traffic, wasted 38 gallons in fuel idling on freeways and spent an extra 102 hours on roadways, for a total of 248 million hours lost to congestion delays.
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