After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. ...more

November 3, 2007

The Florida Department of Health and Safe Kids Florida have come up with a few ideas to keep everyone safe this Halloween. Here are some tips for parents and children: ...more

October 31, 2007

Federal authorities reached a temporary truce Wednesday with college students threatening a march on the Capitol next week to protest the acquittal of seven boot camp guards and a nurse in the death of a teenage boy under their supervision. ...more

October 18, 2007

The Bulls crowd is getting Buccaneers-sized. Parking and traffic around Raymond James Stadium are taking on NFL proportions now that the University of South Florida football program is attracting national attention and legions of Bulls fans. ...more

October 13, 2007

TAMPA - The Bulls crowd is getting Buccaneers-size. Parking and traffic around Raymond James Stadium is taking on NFL proportions now that the University of South Florida football program is attracting national attention and tens of thousands of Bulls fans. The team's popularity has police and traffic officials prepping for game day as though it were a Sunday with 60,000-plus Bucs ticketholders poised to stream into Raymond James. ...more

October 12, 2007

Regarding 'Bracing For Boom, Bridges On Alafia' (Metro, Oct. 8): There is a push by the 'growth machine' to add two bridges over the Alafia River and build a bypass road from north Manatee County to Brandon, among other things, to cope with what Ned Baier, manager of Hillsborough's Transportation and Land Development Review Division, says is the 'fastest growing area of the county.' ...more

October 12, 2007

The roar of Paris rush hour died down, giving way to eerie quiet. With traffic halted, jurors in a British inquest ventured by foot into a dark underpass and came to a halt before the scarred, dented pillar where Princess Diana's Mercedes crashed 10 years ago. ...more

October 9, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Chronic traffic congestion at one of Pasco County's busiest crossroads could derail plans for a new Lowe's store nearby. ...more

September 29, 2007

They don't call it 'interstate' for nothing. The system of highways that includes Interstate 75 was conceived in the 1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other elected officials floated the idea of a network of limited access, transcontinental superhighways to move people and cargo across the country. ...more

September 22, 2007

Here's what would happen if Tampa City Councilwomen Linda Saul-Sena and Mary Mulhern were to realize their dream of having the city buy Tampa Street and Florida Avenue and convert them into two-way streets. ...more

September 15, 2007