Traffic engineers claim they’re not working against you. Some of the most common inquiries in the Road Warrior email inbox involve the timing of traffic signals.
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If you‘re a fan of Uber and Lyft, you‘re one step closer to ride-hailing nirvana. But if you‘re a critic, you‘re one step closer to ride-hailing Armageddon.
One would think that when streets are completely closed and blocked, traffic signals on streets intersecting the closed streets would be modified since there’s no traffic as a result of the closure. But that’s not always the case.
A lot of people may have gotten that feeling recently when they’ve hit the road and seen some recently issued Nevada license plates. The demand for more number-letter variations has brought a new look to Nevada license plates.
The city of Las Vegas discourages traffic along Azure Drive by filling it with speed bumps and a street feature that I don’t think exists anywhere else in the valley — a “three-quarters traffic signal.”
Transportation is, of course, a top issue in cities nationwide. Unfortunately, there isn’t a single solution to solving transportation challenges that is cheap or easy.
If you’re a commuter who uses southbound Interstate 15 to get to work in the morning, begin planning an alternate route now. You’ll thank me June 22 when it’s a lead-pipe cinch that I-15 is going to turn into a slow-moving parking lot.
This isn’t a stupid question and the answer is somewhat surprising: There’s no specific law that says you can’t have a dog in your lap when you drive.
Next time traffic piles up on the freeway and no solution appears to be in sight, the Highway Patrol urges motorists to stop shaking and start thinking.
What many thought was an earthquake aftershock early Saturday morning was actually the sound of the state’s taxi industry imploding. And thus, a new — sort of — transportation option is being made available to residents of Southern Nevada.
Hard to believe, isn’t it, that we’re closing in on the Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kickoff to the summer travel season. It won’t be long before we’re setting the cruise control, telling the kids in the back seat to be quiet and avoiding the wackos who get in our way on the interstate. SoCal is calling. The beaches. The cool ocean breezes. Beverly Hills. The gridlocked freeways.
Thanks to a new Regional Transportation Commission program that starts today, motorists will be armed with information that might ease the pain of a cone-filled commute.
Rock in Rio, which may be one of the coolest international music festivals ever to land in Las Vegas, is going cold turkey on cars.
Fight traffic alert: People who want to get a sniff of fight night ambience are being warned that the MGM Grand is not the place to be Saturday unless you have a ticket to get inside the arena to watch Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather make history.
There’s a pot of gold at the end of this Las Vegas road construction traffic jam, er, rainbow, on the 215 Beltway.