highways

This weekend, highways from Texas to Kentucky to New Jersey were overrun with Trump-supporting caravans. They tried…

Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company unveiled its latest transportation experiment in Los Angeles last night. The Loop, not to…

The shocking experience of hitting a deer on the road is occasionally followed by something you might find even…

Areas of Southern California saw rare summer thunderstorms this weekend, with rainfall that broke July records all…

Americans are simply not driving as much as they used to; most experts agree we hit “peak car.” But that’s not the…

The first road-legal autonomous truck made a splashy debut earlier this month. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is…

If you live in a post-industrial city, odds are good that it’s got its share of abandoned, blighted transit…

Some might say New Yorkers had more money than sense in the Roaring Twenties. Somewhat profoundly, John K.…

Route 66. The Autobahn. The Trans-Eurasian Belt Development? The head of Russia's railway system has proposed a…

Los Angeles is widely considered to be the home of the freeway. It's also considered to be the home of the film…

All along America's open highways are the sight of rest stops—lonesome, and often odd, miniature roadside parks that…

It's the difference of just one inch. In 2005, the guardrail manufacturer Trinity Industries shaved that much off…

Who doesn't like a math pop quiz when driving down to the Mexican border? If you turn onto Interstate 19, which runs…

Migration is a mainstay of American culture—the perpetual dream of manifest destiny started with wagons and ended…

Highways let us humans zip from one place to another—at least when the traffic's not horrendous. But for wild…

The rest areas were always my favorite parts of road trips. There was room to walk around and, somewhere, a vending…

We've all heard about how well Google's self-driving car does on the highway. But is that so impressive? Heck, put…

It's like staring at the night sky only instead of looking up to see stars and constellations, we're looking at the…

The vast and looping knots of L.A.'s elaborate freeway system have long inspired an unlikely stew made from equal…