Via Appia Way in Louisville will go through a $147,000 re-striping “road diet” project down to two lanes to try to increase safety for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, city officials said Tuesday.

It was 9am in Rome, and the Colosseum cast great shadows across well-formed queues of tourists edging closer to the almost 2,000-year-old entrance. I’d braved this queue many years before on my first ...