Transportation

The Federal Highway Administration approved plans for a new 280-mile long freeway expected to connect Nogales to Wickenburg in Arizona.

Pedestrian, cyclist, and auto fatalities are on track to make 2021 a deadly year for traffic deaths in Phoenix.

“Workers here are just fed up.”

The Citizens Transportation Commission recommended that the city council revisit the issue.

“Where can you actually build a bike lane in Phoenix?”

The decision comes after local residents fiercely denounced the project at a recent virtual meeting.

“I had made the joke, ‘I bet it will be a month before somebody plows through it.’ It wasn’t even a week.”

One bicycle advocate and supporter of the proposed lane changes called the meeting a “blood bath.”

Off to the Arizona Supreme Court!

How exactly does a modest rate hike for the two biggest ride-share companies in the world devolve into a power struggle between Arizona’s largest city and the state’s conservative establishment?

It’s coming in December.

Hmm.

The city says safety is the concern. Cyclists say that’s unbelievable.

Nice start for the scoots.

Scoot scoot.

Do robotic dogs dream of chasing autonomous postal trucks?

The Trump administration’s proposal to halt improvements in fuel-efficiency standards could hurt Phoenix’s economy and its health, environmental and health advocates say.

Sammantha Allen heads to death row after conviction for the murder of Ame Deal but no woman has been executed in this state since Eva Dugan in 1930.

Waymo is launching the first public trial of their self-driving taxi service, and they want Phoenix residents to test it out.

Redflex, the photo-enforcement company based in Glendale, announced on Monday that it has agreed to pay $20 million to the city of Chicago for its high-profile bribery scandal. Former Redflex CEO Karen Finley, of Cave Creek, was scheduled to report to prison today in California to begin serving a 30-month term.

The autonomous Lexus RX450h by Waymo cruised around the mostly-residential area in Chandler like a soccer mom would, stopping at all the stop signs, never exceeding the speed limit, and taking turns gently. Then the perfect driver met its match: a street sweeper. What to do? The city truck was…