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The Smart Cities team at MIT is tackling the problem of city traffic congestion — still left untouched by the Segway — with a “stackable” car to be used as part of a public transportation program, much like those bicycle-sharing programs in Europe, and stowed like a shopping cart.
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A nice, modern high-rise bridge now replaces a structure which carried both rail and one-way road traffic over the Tombigbee River in southwest Alabama. It has been a long wait, and the closure of the one-lane car-rail combo bridge hurt one community on one side of the river while the new bridge was being […]

Construction on the replacement bridge for I-20/59 NB at the I-65 interchange is progressing rapidly. The central girders for the bridge, 12 in all, are set to be placed Wednesday, which means that the I-20/59 SB lanes will be shut down for most of the day Wednesday:
Malfunction Junction to be closed all day on […]