Kirkland Mayor Michel Gibson next to the "black box" that houses the AI data gathered by the camera on the light standard in the background on St-Charles Blvd. in Kirkland on Thursday October 2, 2025.

A suburb of Montreal, Canada, is hosting an experimental traffic light that only turns green for the good drivers who keep their speed to the limit.

The sun hadn’t yet risen when Denis Martin hit the road to drive a friend to the airport. By 5:30 a.m., traffic was already at a crawl heading into Montreal — and the drive home wasn’t any better. For ...

St-Charles Blvd. in the West Island was a perennially clogged mess and promising to get worse. The six-lane urban boulevard acts like a funnel, taking in the tens of thousands of cars, trucks and ...