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Several lanes of traffic are blocked on an Indiana highway after a semi-truck hauling cattle overturned Monday afternoon, with several animals escaping the trailer during the ensuing chaos.

Many experts argue that the current speed limits might be too unrealistic and arbitrary to have any impact on how fast people drive.

According to AAA, more than 53 million people are expected to travel over Thanksgiving. Here’s what you need to know if you’re one of those travelers today.

Here are the best times to travel in Chicago for the Thanksgiving holiday — and when you should avoid the roads.

One of the busiest travel weeks of the year — Thanksgiving — also comes as the deadline for TSA workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports.

As COVID-19 restrictions continue to lift across the U.S., AAA predicts 53 million people will travel this Thanksgiving, with 48.3 million of those people traveling by car — despite gas costing over a dollar more per gallon than this time last year.

The worst traffic is expected on Wednesday, as commuters leave work early to hit the road and mix with holiday travelers.

The store sits at the center of a notoriously confusing and difficult traffic circle, which led to an eminent domain fight with the city.

Southbound lanes of the Edens Expressway were blocked near Montrose Avenue during rush hour Friday morning due to a police investigation, authorities said.

A look back at the top news headlines for this week in news with Kye Martin.

The Los Angeles area lost its long-held title as the nation’s most traffic-congested region in 2020 — falling to second place for the first time since at least 1982, according to an annual report released Tuesday.

A pedestrian bridge collapsed in Northeast Washington, D.C., Wednesday, leaving at least five people with injuries, authorities said.

The government’s highway safety agency says U.S. traffic deaths rose 7% last year

Sheriff’s deputies worked to catch a bovine spotted on Houston’s 10 East on Wednesday morning.

A car exploded on Highway 114 in Southlake and it was caught on video.

The Chicago Department of Transportation announced Friday that construction on the Navy Pier Flyover project will cross a new milestone Monday, allowing vehicles to access the Navy Pier Area from Lower Lake Shore Drive.

Pandemic lockdowns and stay-at-home orders kept many drivers off U.S. roads and highways last year

Some transportation experts are warning of a “carpocalypse” post-pandemic, as states reopen and summer travel gets underway, and the Chicago area could be hit even harder because of the number of freeways drivers use to pass through. The Sam Schwartz Company, a leading transportation firm known for coining the term “gridlock” said mass transit ridership has plummeted amid health concerns….

Lanes at Pulaski Road and 35th Place will close starting Wednesday until further notice, the Chicago Department of Transportation announced Sunday. The closures are “out of an abundance of caution,” due to the close proximity of the former Crawford Power Generating Station where just one month earlier a demolition created a cloud of dust and sparked outrage among residents. According…