Visit the Nevada Department of Transportation’s Web site and you’ll learn that 188 people have died on our state’s highways and byways this year.
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This week readers want to know when the work on Eastern Avenue, from Viking Road to Rochelle Avenue, will be finished, what is going on at Decatur Boulevard at Pebble Road and whether there will be lighting on the Las Vegas Beltway from Flamingo Road to Cheyenne Avenue. And the Road Warrior answers a bonus fourth because that’s how the Road Warrior rolls.
Even as gasoline prices finally start to recede, I’m betting a number of valley drivers still are ready to dump their fuel-guzzling SUVs and pickups.
This week readers want to know when the construction at Fort Apache Road and Sahara Avenue is going to wrap up and when the Warm Springs Road overpass at Interstate 15 is going to be redone. Also, the Road Warrior passes on some advice for commuters displaced by the I-15 North project and settles a bet worth a free car wash.
Fuel taxes are going the way of the stegosaurus, dodo bird and Jean Claude Van Damme’s film career.
This week readers want to know when the new Las Vegas Beltway interchange with Lake Mead Boulevard is going to open, are sound walls going to be erected on both sides of the Beltway at Desert Inn Road, and what exactly do “when children are present” school signs mean? And we learn about a personalized licence plate that will save one valley driver from being pulled over by police if O.J. Simpson makes a break for it during his upcoming trial.
Thousands of north valley commuters will fall prey to a nightmarish commute starting this week.
This week readers want to know what the rules are for two lanes of traffic making left turns onto a three-lane road, why the road at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Bonanza Road is being dug up, and why school zone signs are flashing near Jones Boulevard and Washington Avenue even though school’s out for the summer. Plus, a reader offers a special hit ‘n’ run about the oil organization we all love to hate, especially this year.
Vita Grasmick didn’t mind waiting 15 minutes to fill up her Mitsubishi’s gasoline tank on Wednesday.
This week, readers want to know if it is legal for gasoline stations to change their prices more than once a day, if vehicles registered in Nevada must display two license plates (one in the front and one in the rear), and why the pavement on U.S. Highway 95 tilts toward the median near Cheyenne Avenue.
We’ve all been victims of a screamed curse word or flipped bird or honked horn.
This week readers want know whether motor scooters legally may travel on roadways, what happens if you enter a school zone but can’t leave it and whether there are plans to make the intersection of Patrick Lane and Grand Canyon Drive a four-way stop. Also a reader shares a personalized license plate that references a Saturday morning cartoon.
