Road Warrior
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When the Nevada Department of Transportation slapped down the solid white lines and stamped two lanes on U.S. Highway 95 with white diamonds, plenty of folks were outraged.
We’ve all been eyeing gasoline prices and cutting down on trips as costs soar. A friend posted a picture of a pump in the San Francisco Bay Area that showed a gallon of regular gas creeping toward $7.
When Nevada Department of Transportation engineers finished designing the Warm Springs Road bridge and prepared for construction, they realized they had a problem.
Decisions are always based on numbers in a poor economy. For the Regional Transportation Commission, it means a $9 million budget gap that, thanks to some signs of improvement in sales tax revenue, was recently reduced to an $8.3 million gap.
