Road Rage in Berlin as Cyclists Clog Streets in Pandemic
It’s rush hour on a grey morning in Berlin and a stream of cyclists are gliding along Friedrichstrasse, the fabled shopping street that runs through the city center.
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Dodgers, A’s Have a Plan to Combat Gameday Traffic: Gondolas
Across the Golden State, fans of sports, music and theater know and dread one thing all too well: the crush of traffic getting in and out of venue parking lots. The Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland A’s baseball teams have a solution: gondolas going over bumper-to-bumper traffic and onto the stadium grounds.
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Morocco Launches Military Operation in Western Sahara
The Moroccan military launched an operation in a U.N.-patrolled border zone in the disputed Western Sahara to clear a key road it said had been blockaded for weeks by supporters of the pro-independence Polisario Front.
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Zoo Monkeys Prefer Traffic Noise to Natural Sounds: Study
They may be naturally suited to swinging in rainforests, but monkeys in a Finnish zoo have demonstrated a “significant” preference for traffic sounds instead of the noises of the jungle, researchers have found.
Read moreBlind Pedestrians
New York City is denying blind people their right to walk on the city’s streets because less than 5% of intersections have audible crossing signals, a federal court in New York ruled, granting a class of blind and low-vision pedestrians summary judgment on their claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.
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UK Says No-Deal Brexit Could See 7,000-Truck Border Queues
The British government says there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and two-day waits to get into France immediately after the U.K. makes its economic break from the European Union at the end of the year.
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Sweltering France Posts Traffic-Jam Record
France saw a record level of traffic jams on Saturday, with cars stuck in gridlock on roasting roads spanning 820 kilometers across a country suffering a brutal heatwave.
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Berkeley City Council Will Study 50% Slash of Police Budget
Early Wednesday morning, after a nine-hour virtual meeting that drew hundreds of callers, the city council of Berkeley, California, agreed to explore drastic budget cuts for city police.
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LA Police Officers Accused of Faking Records to Claim People Were Gang Members
Three Los Angeles police officers faces charges of falsifying police reports to claim that people they pulled over during traffic stops had gang allegiance or some affiliation.
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French, Greeks Are Europe’s Rudest Drivers: Poll
Drivers in most of Europe say they have adopted safer and more courteous behavior behind the wheel, with the notable exception of the French and Greeks who share the top spot for hurling insults at other road users, polling data showed Wednesday.
Read moreDriver’s Licenses
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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Oilfield Group Warns of Uptick in Deadly Crashes, Even as Industry Slows
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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Supreme Court Clarifies Police Power in Traffic Stops
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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Wary of Virus Spread, US and Canada to Close Border
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 Becomes First Country to Provide Free Public Transport
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 moreParking in Chicago
A 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 moreUS Examines Tesla Unintended Acceleration Complaints
The 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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Bridgegate Convictions Appear Unlikely to Survive Supreme Court
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.
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