Jammed cities eye 'pay to drive'
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New York and other major US cities are considering fees for those driving during rush hour.
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The city has required that all of the city's 13,000 yellow cabs install new technology, including G.P.S. devices and credit-card readers. Some drivers are unhappy about it.
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Californians idle in the nation's worst traffic jams on interstates surrounding major metropolitan areas but they are far from alone -- 52 percent of these urban stretches of highways are congested, according to a new study released on Thursday.
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Millions of drivers use traffic lights and jams as the perfect opportunity to pick up a hot date and sometimes even a marriage partner, according to a survey today.
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Hoping to transform the city's reputation as business park by day and ghost town by night, voters have jumped aboard a sweeping, sales tax-funded transportation plan that includes a light rail system, beefed-up bus service and miles of new freeways.
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Avis Chauffeur Drive, a new service from Avis Budget Group, aims to make trips more about work and less about getting from one spot to another.
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The area covered by a toll for traffic entering London has almost doubled, angering many residents and businesses, although the city's mayor insisted it would cut emissions and traffic jams.Comment
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Drivers of gas-guzzling cars will have to pay nearly $50 a day to enter central London, triple the current charge, while the most fuel efficient vehicles will get a free ride, the mayor said Tuesday.
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Ministers have failed to get to grips with traffic congestion according to a report by the spending watchdog.
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Several years of spring-time price spikes at the U.S. gasoline pumps may have worn down motorist rage into grudging acceptance, with more drivers determined to hit the roads for vacation this year despite the cost.
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The Highways Agency is being too timid to end traffic congestion, says the public spending watchdog.
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Motorists in California, Minnesota, New Jersey and North Carolina have been stuck in some of the worst traffic in the United States, according to a study released Thursday.
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A pay-as-you-drive car insurance scheme is being introduced by Norwich Union.
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By Trenton Daniel, The Miami Herald  Sep. 17--City parking might rank up there with seeing the dentist or paying bills as one of life's bigger hassles.
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A scheme allowing motorists to drive along the hard shoulder is to be rolled out across the country.
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Officials in the Polish city of Wroclaw step up a drive to lure back locals who have gone to the UK in search of work.
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On a mid-morning in early August, Richard Florida -- theoretician du jour about what makes cities succeed -- wouldn't stop staring at the rows of bungalows speeding past his car window in the city's Brookland area.