Born in 1949 in Hanford Village, an African American neighborhood on the Near East Side, Shirley Mixon had a childhood right out of a book about 1950s suburbia. No one worried about leaving doors ...

Highway 36 evolved from a 1930s “disjointed mess” into a critical regional “backbone,” shaped by reactive suburban growth, ...

In the years following World War II, with a growing economy and the vast expansion of automobile ownership, there was broad support for investment in highways that would knit the country together.

A ring of 1960s-era highways encircles downtown Houston, dividing nearby neighborhoods along racial lines and separating them from the city’s urban core. Instead of pursuing ways to connect the city ...

The end of an era recently came for the area of Kingston Pike across from West Town Mall. The Tennessee Highway Patrol headquarters that has been located there since the mid-1960s — and even predated ...

Following World War II, population patterns in the United States shifted in two primary ways: a move away from older cities in the Midwest and toward newer urban centers in the South; and a mass ...

WASHINGTON – Less money in the pockets of Americans means fewer highway deaths. As the economy slid deeper into recession and gas prices reached $4 a gallon last year, the number of people killed in ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Drivers who recently drove down the eastbound 134 at Victory Boulevard, in Griffith Park, may have noticed that a road sign was not up to date ...

The northwest corridor receives an extreme amount of cars daily - between 50,000 and 60,000. Details of the 14-mile project were presented to the Cy-Fair Houston Chamber of Commerce during a ...

In the early 1800s, a few hundred of Florida's Seminole Indians who had just survived two bloody wars and eluded the federal government's 1830 order to move west of the Mississippi River slipped into ...