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CBC
07-05-2025
- Automotive
- CBC
'Multi-vehicle' collision prompts closure of Alaska Highway near Teslin, Yukon
A "multi-vehicle" crash has prompted the Yukon government to close the Alaska Highway between Teslin and Johnsons Crossing. The Department of Highways and Public Works states the collision happened near Deadman Creek. The government closed the section of highway early Wednesday morning, with its last online update at 7 a.m. The department states the RCMP and traffic control staff are on scene. The government's 511Yukon website calls it a "multi-vehicle collision," but includes no other details. It remains unclear how long the highway will be closed.
The Guardian
06-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Guardian
The big picture: Clark Winter on the road in Beijing
It's 3.35pm in Beijing and everything is happening. The wide street, bathed in slanted afternoon sun, is filled with traffic. We are in the back seat of a taxi, paused at the mercy of the traffic controller atop his tiered stand, like a figurine on a wedding cake. The edges of the road are clogged with cyclists rushing towards and away from us, but mostly what we see is cars, cars and more cars, including the interior of our own. The four-wheeled automobile is the subject and the vehicle, so to speak, of American photographer Clark Winter's Here to There: Photographs from the Road Ahead, which chronicles three decades of road life across the US and beyond. As a youth, Winter was offered a rare place to study at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design under American photography luminaries such as Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Realising he wanted to know more about the world before fixing it with his lens, he instead took an entry-level job at JP Morgan, who funded a year of education in finance and then sent him across the world to learn about global markets. He took his Leica with him. In black-and-white and colour, he takes us from the landscapes of Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana to the streets of Madrid, Rome, Pisa, Palermo, Paris, Mexico City and Beijing. Rather than seeking out particular images or motifs, Winter prefers an open curiosity – to look carefully and see what catches his attention. 'You don't know whether it's your intuition or something beneath the level of your conscious perception, but a tiny bell goes off in your head and you listen to it,' he once told Life magazine. In Traffic Control, Beijing, China, as in many of his photographs, the windows, doors, angles and purviews of the taxi act as frames within a frame, directing our vision this way and that, like the traffic warden beyond who orchestrates the road. The rear-view mirror ingeniously catches a fellow passenger, who also has a camera and sees yet another view. Here to There. Photographs from the Road Ahead is published by Damiani (€50)
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Yahoo
Video captures dramatic near-miss on runway at Chicago Midway airport
A Southwest Airlines flight narrowly avoided a collision with a private plane on a runway in Chicago Tuesday morning, thanks to a last second 'go-around' maneuver. The near-miss was captured on video, which shows the commercial plane about to touch down at Chicago Midway, then quickly lifting off the tarmac as the smaller jet crosses its path to landing. 'The crew of Southwest Airlines Flight 2504 initiated a go-around when a business jet entered the runway without authorization at Chicago Midway Airport,' the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday. 'The FAA is investigating the incident, which occurred around 8:50 a.m. local time in a near-miss incident Tuesday.' Audio posted to Airport Webcams indicates the Southwest flight was cleared for landing before the FlexJet plane is seen crossing onto the runway. Someone seemingly in the larger aircraft asks, 'How did that happen?' as the two planes pass. According to ABC News in Chicago, the FlexJet was at fault for the close call. 'Air Traffic controllers can be heard telling the business jet to hold short and not cross the runway, but the business jet did not follow instructions,' a spokesperson for the FAA reportedly said. Air Traffic Control recordings seem to show the commercial plane's landing was being managed by local controllers, while the business jet was being guided through its departure with ground control communicating on a different frequency. The FAA said the planes came within 863 yards of one another. Recent weeks have been filled with harrowing and sometimes deadly airline encounters. On Jan. 29, an American Eagle passenger plane collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., leaving 67 people dead. Two days later, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing all six people aboard and another person on the ground. On Feb. 6, 10 people were killed when a small commuter plane crashed in western Alaska. Surprisingly no one was killed when a Delta flight carrying 76 passengers and four crew members flipped upside down and caught fire following a Feb. 18 crash landing in Toronto. _____
