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The article offers information on the topics published in this issue including joke library of Joan Rivers, traffic speed in Manhattan, New York and the number of churches located in Italy.

The article reports that the campaign to reallocate street space in New York for pedestrians and cyclists has resulted in nearly 7 percent increased traffic speed since 2008 in primary central business district in Manhattan, New York.

The author focuses on the impact of road construction projects in the U.S. on the road trips of people during the 2010 Labor Day weekend in which slow traffic is expected.

The federal government has committed more than $50 million to build a sophisticated highway traffic monitoring system that has produced unreliable data and cannot freely share live reports on highway bottlenecks with the public, an audit by the Transportation Department's inspector general has found. Thousands of tiny traffic-monitoring sensors are being installed along highways in 27 cities nationwide under the program. The monitors collect information on lane occupancy and traffic speed, and the data then is supposed to be transmitted live to electronic message boards and other devices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]