MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It's a part of your commute that might seem like it's slowing you down. But in reality, it's actually speeding things up and keeping you safe. If you've hit the road on Twin ...

As you begin to enter a California highway, you might encounter a ramp meter telling you when you can — or cannot — merge without stopping. What are the rules when those lights are active at on-ramps?

Other states use ramp metering to reduce crashes, improve travel times and control the flow of traffic entering the freeway. The ramp meters will be used when traffic is slower and congested. They ...

The effort involving sensors and ramp meters at three on-ramps hopes to improve conditions in congested southwest Riverside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's hard to enter a highway in Los Angeles County without encountering a stoplight at the end of the entrance ramp — a pause that ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A new ramp meter on the eastbound US 2 on-ramp to I-90 will activate on Thursday, July 6. Starting Thursday, engineers from the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will ...

They may look like traffic lights, but according to Glenn Wagemann, the ramp meters being installed on interstate ramps around downtown Spokane are just the most visible mechanism in a high-tech ...

From the Washington State Department of Transportation: SPOKANE, Wash. - Weekday commuters soon will travel more smoothly as they merge onto eastbound Interstate 90 from the Geiger/Grove interchange.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane’s first metered ramp became active on Tuesday morning and a Washington State Department of Transportation engineer says Spokane will see five more on I-90 by next summer. The ...