A study of bicyclists and their travel patterns throughout Chicago found the city’s bicycling hot spot — at least in 2009. It’s 640 North Milwaukee Ave., where more than 3,000 bicyclists recorded at during the summer and fall of 2009 as part of the of Chicago Department of Transportation’s first-ever bike-count study, the results of [...]
Motorists who use an iPhone will have more information at their finger tips with an update this spring to a navigation app — and more reason to ignore the road. iGo My Way — developed by NNG — is a 3-D GPS app for drivers in the style of Garmin. The upgraded app will be [...]
The website Atohms offers up a prototype of a traffic camera sure to fool motorists — it’s disguised as a pigeon. Writes the poster: A speeding driver will not pay attention to the silhouette of a simple bird. Thus it’ll safeguard the camera from detection and possible vandalism. A funny side effect would be that drivers [...]
In launching a new Web site containing structural ratings for state-maintained bridges, the Illinois Department of Transportation promises to offer more access and be more transparency for motorists. The initiative will allow motorists to learn how safe the state’s nearly 27,000 bridges are, according to a IDOT news release announcing Web site. “We want the [...]
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