Despite a backdrop of riots against high fuel levies in France, European commission data shows that taxes on all petrol products have actually fallen in the last two years across the eurozone. The level has fallen from almost 70% of the cost for con...
Charging more for parking could save the environment, ease congestion and inject energy back into the high street. But how? The Guardian's Peter Walker explains that we've been thinking about parking all wrong: it's not a right, but rather an over-s...
For three months from November 1973, the Dutch government banned cars on Sundays to curb oil consumption during the Opec energy crisis. City residents enjoyed picnics on empty motorways and got around on foot, by bike ... and on horseback Main...
Brasilândia feels more like a village in its own right than a peripheral district in a bustling metropolis of nearly 20 million people. Miles from the hustle and bustle of São Paulo’s central area, children play in the streets and passersby greet ea...
Safety meeting discussed the crack but concluded the bridge, which later collapsed leaving six dead, was not compromised Hours before a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed on Thursday, killing six people, enginee...
A charter bus plunged off a bridge and into a ravine as Texas students returned from a trip to Disney World A charter bus taking high school students home from a trip to Disney World plunged off a bridge and into a ravine in Alabama early o...