With apologies to those who fought to attain our city’s latest National Scenic Byway designation, I’m struggling to see the beauty of this strip-club-and-tattoo-parlor-littered stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard.
Road Warrior
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In recent years, signs marking school zones and the hours during which they’re in effect have been mostly replaced by flashing signs. But some of the older signs still exist, and they tend to cause some confusion.
Not long ago, a 78-year-old woman called to express her concern after she tried to renew her driver’s license and was asked for a birth certificate, marriage license and her firstborn child.
The Department of Motor Vehicles has had its battles with motorists who sport vanity plates. The agency can refuse to issue plates it deems inappropriate, although, as we saw last summer, the decisions of DMV officials sometimes can be overturned. But what’s the deal with bumper stickers?
Construction zones create a playing field for a little game of chicken.
Sometimes when new laws are passed, there’s a big to-do. By the time they’re enacted, everyone has forgotten about them and wonders, for instance, why the heck they need their birth certificate to renew their driver’s license. The Department of Motor Vehicle’s Real I.D. Act will get rolling in January. Check out www.dmvnv.com to get all the details about the act and its regulations.
I’ve fielded this question at least a dozen times since I’ve taken over this job: When will the onramps and offramps on U.S. Highway 95 at Martin Luther King Boulevard open?
My habit of text messaging while driving went by the wayside awhile ago, but it wasn’t because I believed I posed a danger to fellow drivers. I just happened to learn the hard way that I wasn’t very good at it.
Last week I joined Alan Stock on his KXNT radio morning show and several callers were kind enough to call in with questions rather than dish out insults to a radio first-timer. I didn’t have all the answers — actually, I had very few — readily available and promised to address them in this column.
Pylons, dented orange and white barrels and never-ending congestion are enough to drive any motorist in this town nuts these days.
Several states are considering new laws regarding texting while driving. Some states already have banned it altogether. Others prohibit drivers under the age of 18 from sending text messages while operating a vehicle. This week, I want to start by asking you a question: What type of laws, if any, would you like to see related to texting and driving in Nevada?
Ever bump into someone who proclaims love for his occupation simply because it allows him to help the helpless without charging a nickel?
Included in a flurry of tax increases approved by lawmakers during the 2009 legislative session was a boost that resulted in higher fees when motorists register their vehicles. That hike might have briefly escaped drivers’ memories; but Sept. 1, the date it went into effect, has arrived. Now motorists’ experience at the Department of Motor Vehicles might be more agonizing than anticipated.
Like many Las Vegas commuters, I fly frequently and dream of the day when public transportation provides a simple, convenient and timely ride to McCarran International Airport.