NYC is pothole city
Welcome to pothole city. Over 70 percent of the city’s roads are in poor or mediocre shape– and just a paltry 16 percent can be deemed good, according to a new report. New York City’s crappy streets...
View ArticleFor daring drivers only: The world’s 10 scariest roads
Maybe someday, Doc Brown will be right. Maybe we won’t need roads. But until we all get a flying DeLorean, we’re going to be using them in our travels, and often they’re a big part of the fun. For...
View ArticleIf there is bumper-to-bumper traffic in this tunnel, you will die
Good luck getting out of here alive. The Anzob Tunnel was supposed to make life easier for people wanting to travel between Tajikistan’s major cities. Before the tunnel was built, drivers had to cross...
View ArticleThe painless tax companies should pay to fix our roadways
Highways — can’t live without ’em, can’t pay to fix ’em. There’s a bill that has been moving through Congress about as quickly as cars on Fifth Avenue the day department stores unveil their Christmas...
View ArticleOnly a maniac would attempt to drive on this Turkish mountain road
And you thought Queens Boulevard was tough! Get a load of the crazy twists and turns of this highway in Turkey, named the world’s most dangerous road by a website that tracks treacherous trails. The...
View ArticleTerrifying gang shootout snarls traffic near Rio Olympic stadium
This is the terrifying moment when commuters were trapped in the middle of a gangland shooting right beside the Rio Olympic Park. The horrific violence happened on the same road that Olympic athletes...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo flips off the feds
Gov. Cuomo has found a new way to handle disputes with the federal government: Just ignore them. Team Cuomo’s been doing that for nearly three years now, ever since the feds first warned that his plan...
View ArticleBehind Cuomo’s highway-sign debacle
Call it a Gov. Cuomo classic: Order 500 signs to plug New York on state highways — never mind if they’re made outside New York. Or if posting them is even legal. As The Post reported Wednesday, Cuomo’s...
View ArticleNew guardrails are designed to bounce cars back onto the road
The Rolling Barrier is a Korean road safety product that was created to replace current guard rails. The new design absorbs the energy of the impact and redirects it so that the car is bounced back...
View ArticleTens of thousands of US bridges are structurally deficient
WASHINGTON — A new report says the Brooklyn Bridge and Washington’s Arlington Memorial Bridge are among thousands of spans considered structurally deficient. Although the numbers of deficient bridges...
View ArticleOfficials want to make Dick Street longer
Folks on a street in New Jersey say they are getting the shaft. The residents are upset about a plan by Clifton town leaders to extend the name Dick Street so a continuation of the route now called...
View ArticleThis NYC bridge is about to be blown to bits
The Kosciuszko Bridge is falling down. The state plans to blow up the old Kosciuszko Bridge within the next couple of months, as soon as it can move traffic to the new span running alongside it, Gov....
View Article3 arrested in fire that caused highway collapse
ATLANTA — Three people have been arrested in connection with the raging fire that collapsed a portion of Interstate 85 a few miles north of downtown Atlanta, crippling a major traffic artery in a city...
View ArticleSecret military airfields are hiding in plain sight
To the untrained eye, there’s nothing remarkable about the A44 autobahn in central Germany, the motorway that links the industrial and heavily populated Rhine-Ruhr region to the country’s heartland....
View ArticlePrivate road sale could frustrate Hamptons millionaires
A private road in an exclusive estate section of the Hamptons is now for sale — for $2.5 million. The one percenters pay upwards of $25 million to live on tony Holly Lane in Water Mill, but they must...
View ArticleClerical error over road repairs will cost taxpayers $9.2M
Taxpayers will have to shell out an extra $9.2 million to fix the city’s bumpy roads because the Department of Transportation stubbornly refused to let the lowest bidder fix a clerical error, The Post...
View ArticleDe Blasio thinks city roads are worse than the subway
Mayor de Blasio is underwhelmed by the MTA’s new six-point plan to unclog the subway — but he’d still take a train over New York’s grid-locked roads any day. “Even though there are problems with the...
View ArticleHOV lanes might become bus-only on Long Island Expressway
Gov. Cuomo says he may nix the HOV lanes on the Long Island Expressway — by turning them into bus lanes — to help move commuters who will be displaced by repairs at Penn Station. The governor has...
View ArticleState actually wants you to help turtles cross the road
Get the shell out of the way. Thousands of turtles searching for cozy spots to lay eggs will cross New York roads in coming weeks — and drivers should follow special protocol save them from getting...
View ArticleAnother $9 million thrown away by de Blasio mismanagement
It’s up to city Comptroller Scott Stringer to undo yet another bit of Team de Blasio bungling and save the taxpayers $9.2 million on street work. In a fit of bureaucracy at its “finest,” the Department...
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