In the last two columns, we looked at the runaway proliferation of traffic signals in American communities large and small--even though, con...

Last time we looked at why so many American traffic engineers continue to install vast and expensive signal arrays on virtually every urban ...

You’re approaching an intersection late at night, and you’re the only car on the road for a half mile around. What happens? The traffic li...

  Guessing the future has probably occupied people since the beginning of time. Yet, ponder as we might, reality seldom turns out very close...

A while back, I had a chance to walk through a wonderful old villa designed by one of the top California architects of the 1920s. The house ...

According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the size of the average American house more than doubled between 1950 and 1999.  Between 1982 to...

The other morning I stopped at a local mom-and-pop coffee stand to grab some breakfast. I was about to settle for a toasted bagel when a ch...