Traffic Planet: life in the second carboniferous period.

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Right: Dacca dust-up--rush hour in the capital of Bangladesh.

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Below: Where the rubber meets the road--a motorway somewhere in the United Kingdom.

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The Dutch solution: bicycles parked in Amsterdam.

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Traffic to Asia, traffic to Europe: the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge crosses the Bosporus in Istanbul.

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The City of London has a "Congestion Charging" program that requires each driver entering the city center between 7am and 6pm, Monday through Friday, to pay...