Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray will likely face hard questions about his city’s speed-camera ticketing program, after a Daily Caller investigation found that the city turned a $12.1 million profit in 2011 by fining lead-footed drivers. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Enough already. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Heavy snow and icy roads Wednesday night created hazardous condition for President Barack Obama as he returned to the White House from a trip to Wisconsin. (more)
HEFLIN, Ala. (AP) — His wife riding beside him with their two children in safety seats in the back, John Fisher drove home toward South Carolina along a stretch of Interstate 20 covered with ruts, bumps and crumbling concrete. (more)
The winning entry in “The Fun Theory” contest is a traffic camera that instead of just ticketing speeders, it also enters people who drive the speed limit into a lottery. Randomly selected winners get paid out of a portion of the tickets paid by the scofflaws. (more)
BEIJING (AP) — China has just been declared the world’s second biggest economy, and now it has a monster traffic jam to match. (more)
Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China’s growing road congestion woes. (more)
Every morning, Joshua Cassidy climbs into his 2004 Ford Escape and begins his daily commute: a 90-minute drive from an apartment on the eastern shore of Maryland to his job as an executive team leader at a Target store in Largo, Md. (more)
PARMA, Italy (AP) — It’s a modern-day version of Marco Polo’s journey halfway around the world — but is anyone at the controls? (more)
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Foreign Office named the United States embassy Monday as the worst offender among diplomatic missions that have racked up 36 million pounds ($54 million) in disputed traffic congestion charges. (more)
Chicago has the worst truck-traffic congestion in the U.S., according to a new study issued Wednesday. (more)
KTLA Morning News reporter Gayle Anderson received multiple parking tickets from a Santa Monica parking enforcement officer during a segment on the best cars for road trips. [Via The Daily What] (more)
John Tomlinson was praised for being “cool and calm” in a crisis during a Traffic Commission hearing to decide if he should keep his HGV licence. (more)
The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph “cushion” police and state troopers across the USA have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit. (more)
BEIJING (AP) — Closed roads and delayed flights left thousands of travelers stranded Tuesday following blizzards and extreme cold that killed four people and affected 1.6 million others in northwestern China, a government spokesman said. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams flew to this devastated land of dazed, dead and dying people Thursday, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and without a control tower. (more)
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — Heavy trucks used to creep through town, rumbling past shoppers and the well-known L.L. Bean store because big rigs weren’t allowed on Interstate 295 a quarter-mile away. (more)
GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss court made recent headlines around the world by slapping a $290,000 (euro203,180.83) speeding ticket on a millionaire Ferrari driver. The punishment struck many people as extreme, but Swiss legal experts and campaigners defend basing fines on income as a fair and effective way to make the wealthy obey traffic laws. (more)
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s cold weather has disrupted the weekend Premier League program with five matches called off Friday by clubs concerned about icy roads and railway disruptions to stadiums. (more)
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s cold weather has disrupted the weekend Premier League program with four matches called off Friday by clubs concerned about icy roads and railway disruptions to stadiums. (more)
