If you've ever ridden an AC Transit bus creeping across the Bay Bridge during rush hour, you might have thought: There must be a better way. Why, for example, didn't bridge planners create a dedicated ...
It seems to make perfect sense. When evacuations ahead of hurricanes are needed, transform all lanes of the interstate into one direction to allow as many people to get out as fast as possible – what ...
Over the past few months, crews have been constructing a passage called a contraflow lane, for buses to travel against traffic. The changes include a red-painted, northbound, bus-only lane on ...
DAYTON — Today, the Ohio Department of Transportation reopened the Contraflow lane to help keep traffic moving on I-75, but some drivers are concerned about it. Drivers told News Center 7 that they do ...
NEW ORLEANS — Many who evacuated during Hurricane Katrina have vivid memories of contraflow, in which thousands of cars crawled for miles side-by-side in a desperate attempt to flee New Orleans.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - It's been around since 1952: the afternoon contraflow on Kapiolani Boulevard. But after hearing complaints from ticked off drivers and residents, the Honolulu City Council ...
Traffic is backed up for miles along Interstate 64 in Putnam County near the new eastbound contraflow lane that opened overnight. The eastbound contraflow lane is in the I-64 construction zone near ...
As Tropical Storm Isaac approaches, State Police Monday continued to patrol metro New Orleans evacuation routes, but said a decision on activating contraflow would be based largely on whether south ...
NEW ORLEANS — Contraflow has not been used to evacuate the New Orleans area since Hurricane Gustav, thanks to the 72-hour notice required to put it into effect and the fact that storms rapidly ...