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Culture
Human Infographic! GOOD Attacks Traffic in Los Angeles
GOOD Attacks! brought an infographic flashmob to downtown Los Angeles.
Culture
Will Los Angeles Survive? The Best Carmageddon PSA Ever
Angelenos, we know you're freaking, but this video will help you brave this weekend's shutdown of the 405.
News
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Why We're Pro-Carmageddon
Construction work is shutting down L.A.'s 405 freeway and people are being told to stay out of their cars. Sounds like the perfect new holiday.
Education
Can These Two College Students Solve the Carpooling Puzzle?
Two students from the University of Costa Rica want to reduce the number of wasteful solo car trips by making carpooling with strangers safe and easy.
Environment
Yet Another Reason Sprawl Sucks: Long Commutes Cause Divorce
Sprawl development isn't just bad for the environment, but also for relationships.
News
Bike-Loving French City Wants to Lower Speed Limit to 18 mph
Strasbourg has a windy city center and a vision for shared streets. Residents will soon vote on lowering the speed limit to encourage more walking.
News
Want to Buy a Car in Beijing? You'll Need to Win the Lottery
In response to unbearable congestion, China is setting up a lottery to determine who gets to buy a car this year in Beijing.
Design
GOOD Design Daily: Eight Smarter Traffic Lights
Our traffic light hasn't kept up with the innovation offered in our vehicles. These eight concepts improve our ability to stop and go.
Culture
Intermission: Culture Traffic Jamming
In this video, the artists Rune Madsen messes with the flow of traffic on a city sidewalk and reveals something essential about human behavior.
News
Jersey Barriers to Get an Artist's Makeover in NYC
It's a smart move to transform the constant construction sites inherent in infrastructure upgrades into a canvas for local expression.
News
The Merits of the Diverging Diamond Interchange
This strange style of highway interchange that requires drivers to switch to the wrong side of the road actually reduced accidents in Missouri.
Environment
Hey L.A., on 10/10/10 Come Out and Play at CicLAvia
Celebrate a car-free Los Angeles on 10/10/10 at CicLAvia.
Cities
The Traffic Light of Tomorrow Will Make Its Own Decisions
New research finds that a self organizing system of semi-autonomous traffic lights could reduce urban driving delays by 10 to 30 percent.
Cities
Is Congestion Actually Bad for the Economy?
The conventional wisdom is that congestion is bad for business: traffic, hard to find parking spots, long commute times obviously depress an...
Cities
Saving Money by Cutting Traffic
America is known for its car culture—but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...
Cities
America's Worst Commutes
The Daily Beast put together a list of America's 75 worst commutes. They based their order on the peak hour Travel Time Index-a "measure of how...
Cities
The GOOD 100: Cities
The New American Dream During a decade when Americans returned to cities for the first time in 50 years, it surprises me that "urban" can still...
Environment
This Week in TreeHugger: Bill Clinton Riffs on Emissions during a Slow Climate Week, Plus Brad On Green Building, Byrne On the Cycling-Dog Poop Connection, and Urine on Your Tomatoes
Treehuggers were all over the map this week: Brian Merchant sat down with Bill Clinton on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative,...
