A few days ago in 1956, construction began on what became the starting point of modern America: the Interstate Highway System.

The biggest near term threat to the stability of nations might not be climate change, terrorism, or nuclear war. It just might be robots—putting millions of people out of jobs. Where will they all go? There are only a few possibilities.

The trains around San Francisco (the BART, or “Bay Area Rapid Transit”) is a mess tonight, as it is most nights. Just ask anyone from San Francisco! Tonight is such a mess, though, that whoever runs the @SFBART Twitter account decided to be very honest with its indignant followers.

America’s roads and bridges are in horrible shape. We could fix them up and provide lots of jobs in the process. But we won’t!

Homeless people and Marilyn Monroe will have to find a new source of gusts of warm air, the New York Times reports, as the Second Avenue subway is being built without sidewalk grates.

More than one-fifth of American roads are in "poor" condition, and 11% of American bridges are "structurally deficient." Whee.

Thank God I'm moving back to Manhattan and will never have to take a bridge to/from Brooklyn ever again. Because bridges? They move. Here's a time-lapsed video showing the Manhattan Bridge creaking and yawing under the weight of subway cars.

"With weather forecasters predicting flash flooding and heavy thunderstorms in New York City, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority faces the possibility of additional service shutdowns Friday as it struggles to clear tracks of debris left from Tuesday's flood and readies the system to handle more rain." Our…