A highway is a fast road with open access, which means it “can have intersections, driveways or median openings for turning,” ...

The average metro Phoenix resident spends nearly 30 minutes a day commuting, officials say. Given how much time we spend on the road, you may be familiar with rush hour patterns and the major ...

For more than a decade, California air quality officials have warned against building homes within 500 feet of freeways. And with good reason: People there suffer higher rates of asthma, heart attacks ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In the heyday of the ‘50s and ‘60s, low gasoline prices and ...

On the heels of that New York Times report on the proliferation of highway removal projects in U.S. cities, the Congress for the New Urbanism has released its almost annual list of “Freeways Without ...

The Waymo One ride-hailing service today operates on surface streets and will soon be able to use freeways. In Phoenix, Waymo will “begin testing its fully autonomous passenger cars without a human ...

Freeway expansion isn’t just a transportation issue; it’s one of the most overlooked drivers of California’s housing crisis.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Liam Dillon about the continued displacement of Black and Latino communities due to U.S. freeway expansions. In recent days, President Biden ...

LA’s freeway system consists of 527 miles of roads. These twelve long ribbons of asphalt and concrete connect us to the people and places of this great region. But they also pollute and divide ...

Transportation officials for the Bay Area are in the middle of a planning exercise to adapt the region’s freeway system for the next generation of drivers. One proposition in the early stages of ...

Everyone freak out: Carmageddon is back. Right now, several U.S. cities are scheming to shut down major freeways — permanently. In the push to take back cities from cars, this is what you’d call ...

When suburbs began spreading out across Southern California after World War II, officials envisioned a sprawling freeway system to get people around. But big chunks of that system were never built, ...