Hurricane Maria was the most devastating hurricane to make land in Puerto Rico in nearly 100 years and the country is still reeling in its wake. Much of the island still doesn’t have running water, reliable communication or electricity.
The good news is that Puerto Rico, devastated after Hurricane Maria, is now seeing donations pouring in from people looking to help. The bad news is that the supplies seem to be stuck at the ports because there are issues with infrastructure and not enough truckers to properly distribute the items to people in need.
It’s kind of hard to imagine a time when there wasn’t some basic law and order on the streets, but this snapshot video from the 1930s is a perfect display of just how random and unpredictable the various traffic signals across America could be before we established the standardized system of today.
Until recently, my favorite stretch of American road was in Utah, a state I’ve often forgotten while trying to name the full 50. I-80's abrupt 2,500-foot descent from the border of Wyoming to Salt Lake City has long been a favorite of mine. The sheer variety of the scenery—from striated red rock to the sterile…
Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc on Texas, leaving at least nine people dead and racking up potentially billions of dollars in damages. Soon enough, federal aid is expected to be issued to help rebuild communities across the state. Under regulations proposed by the Obama administration, any federally-funded…
As if our world wasn’t as messed up as we already know it to be, NYC’s Transport Workers Union is claiming that the MTA stores dead bodies cleaned up off of subway tracks in worker break rooms. You thought you had it bad when somebody heated up their fish?
An enterprising couple from the South Bay was just able to purchase a neighborhood street from an online auction because of an accounting error, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. Now the neighborhood is worried about the ways the couple might try to cash in on the purchase.
Ohio’s banking on a $218 million “driverless car” highway to get techies out of sunny California and test their autonomous tech alongside cornfields, cows and Cedar Point.
Raise your internet hand if you’ve been driving down the highway at a brisk-but-not-quite-speeding pace, everything’s going swell until you come up on some slower traffic. No worries, you pop into the left lane to pass and try to get your groove going again when suddenly you’re snapped out of your good space by a…
If you’re a sentient semi truck that lives/works in Minnesota, you should be aware that there’s a long tunnel in Minneapolis called the Lowry Hill Tunnel that you’re too large to fit through. Knowing this may help you prevent your driver from doing what this trucker did. He drove through the too-small tunnel, smashing…
If you’re looking for a cheap thrill, then this new pedestrian suspension bridge in Switzerland might be a fun time. I’m serious. Hanging nearly 28 stories above ground and spanning about one-third of a mile, it’s said to be the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge, according to USA Today. If you’re feeling…
Over the past week, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced some solutions to NYC’s subway catastrophe, fixes that include removing seats from trains, making an app and getting Tough On Litter. Now Governor Andrew Cuomo discovered yet another remedy: getting businesses to adopt subway stations.
American roads suck. Our roadways scored a D on the American Society of Civil Engineers annual infrastructure report card because they are “crowded, frequently in poor condition, chronically underfunded, and are becoming more dangerous.” Yikes.
A couple summers ago on a road trip through California, I came across an intersection that had a street with my last name, and also gave me an empire. Because I have an insatiable appetite for dumb coincidences, I got a photo of me standing next to the sign. With this new website Crossing.us, I can now find every…
New Yorkers: if you commute through Penn Station, get ready for eight weeks of extensive train delays, cancellations and rerouting starting today.
Agitated, sweaty and perpetually late subway riders have had enough of New York’s disintegrating transit system and plan to protest outside of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s city office tonight to give him a piece of their mind. Will he fix the trains after this? Probably not, but it’s something.
Two cars of a packed southbound A train jumped from the track and collided with a wall between 135th Street and 125th Street Tuesday morning. No deaths were reported, but over two dozen people sustained minor injuries.
The famed 11foot8 bridge claimed yet another victim this past week, a rental truck failing to heed its many warnings. When will people learn? (Never.)
Everyone who has ever sat on a stalled subway train knows that the MTA, the agency responsible for keeping New York City transportation running, is broken. Why? We asked MTA employees to tell us.
Elon Musk hates traffic, I’m sure you’ve heard. So he wants to dig tunnels, a fairytale project that won’t help alleviate congestion and probably can’t reach the scope Musk wants. And now, local government officials in California are saying as much, reportedly calling it an “absurd pipe dream.”
