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Shanghai, China bans bikes -- the country's most common form of transportation -- on major roads to make more room for cars.

The state’s new governor responds to recent Census data naming Detroit as first in the nation in the flight of young adults between 2000 and 2002.

For the first time, there are more vehicles than people to drive them in the average U.S. household.

People who lost families in the 9/11 attacks are staging a rally to protest rebuilding on the site where the towers touch the earth.

Ninety-five percent of Maryland's trips are by way of private automobile. Former Gov. Parris Glendening's smart growth policies are to be overturned.

The radical environmentalist group, Environmental Liberation Front, burned two houses near Ann Arbor. 'ELF, no sprawl' was spray-painted on a neighboring house.

The General Accounting Office concludes that congestion pricing could work in the U.S.

Amtrak is facing another fiscal crisis that could lead to a systemwide shutdown in the spring.

A fight is breweing in Virginia for development rights on to build a town on the site of general Robert E. Lee's greatest victory.

Fannie Mae increases mortgages for people who buy homes near train stations and bus stops and agree to own only one car.

A recent study finds that summer smog violations increased by 10 percent between 2000 and 2001.

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Paris, France may be the first city to officially appoint a bicycle policy chief.

Congress passed the year's biggest environmental bill, giving states up to $200 million a year to clean up 500,000 polluted industrial sites.

The operator of the World Trade Center is reportedly interesting in erecting four smaller 50-story buildings.

A report by the Population Reference Bureau concludes that growth in industrialized nations has essentially stopped, and has shifted to the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

More Americans are leaving the driving to someone else.

Census figures show that California residents are fleeing to the suburbs and beyond.

Intel abruptly stops construction on a new chip factory in Austin, Texas -- leaving local politicians furious about a construction tax incentive package.

Boston-area transit riders have been promised on-time service or their money back.