Seizing on Maryland DOT’s own analysis, toll lane foes urge feds to reject project study
Opponents of Maryland’s plan to add toll lanes to the Capital Beltway and Interstate 270 in Montgomery County urged the Federal Highway Administration on Wednesday to retract an analysis of the proposal that the state and the federal agency released earlier this month…
Biden recommends new highway safety chief – TheTrucker.com
A former California pollution regulator is being nominated to run the nation’s highway safety agency at a time when highway deaths are on the rise. President Joe Biden has announced his intention to nominate Steven Cliff, who has served as deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since February, to become the agency’s administrator…
ODOT sues marina, Oregon City for I-205 bridge project land
Two key pieces of land stand in the way of ODOT’s plan to seismically retrofit the Abernethy Bridge and widen a section of Interstate 205 between Oregon City and unincorporated Lake Oswego. State officials recently filed a lawsuit against both Oregon City and Sportscraft Landing asking a Clackamas County Circuit Court judge to grant ODOT eminent domain to complete the widening of the bridge to three lanes in both directions…
NYPD traffic tickets plummet, but cameras show drivers aren’t slowing down
Cops issued just 5,039 traffic tickets during the third week of July, down 74 percent from the 20,762 that officers handed out during the third week of February. It’s also well below the 19,126 tickets that officers dispensed during the third week of July in 2019, NYPD stats show…
Driver Fined After Traffic Camera Thinks Pedestrian’s Shirt Is a License Plate
David and Paula Knight opened a letter containing a fine levied against their Volkswagen Transporter van, which had allegedly committed a traffic violation more than 120 miles away from their home in Surrey, England. But upon closer inspection, the couple noticed that the camera had made a mistake, and that the photographic evidence included in the letter wasn’t of their van, or any vehicle at all.