Road Worrier
Road Worrier
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Road Worrier: Express lanes are a more palatable flavor of toll road
Highway planners in North Carolina look at options to pay for freeway expansions, including one that collects electronic tolls only from drivers in the new lanes.
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Road Worrier: Firefighter stop may have saved erratic driver -- and it might cancel her DWI conviction
Critics worry that an N.C. Court of Appeals ruling will send a dangerous message to firefighters, warning them against taking action to prevent an impaired driver from causing a crash.
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Road Worrier: NCDOT vows to complete 540 across south and east Wake
The state Department of Transportation is back at work on plans to complete the 540 Outer Loop as a toll road from Holly Springs to Interstate 40 at Garner, and north to Knightdale.
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Road Worrier: The gas tax is running out of gas
State forecasters warn of a decline in gas tax revenue, which funds 70 percent of North Carolina’s transportation needs. Blame it on the Prius.
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Road Worrier: US 64 plan features animal underpasses, East Lake bypass
Planned wildlife crossings will improve safety for bears and people on U.S. 64 through Alligator River refuge, federal wildlife officials say. And a proposed bypass will spare the tiny community of East Lake.
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Road Worrier: Werner Herzog's unflinching film examines aftermath of texting while driving
“From One Second to the Next,” a documentary by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, offers detailed testimony from texting drivers and victims.
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Road Worrier: Chapel Hill worries about pedestrians; experiments with crosswalks
Flashing lights and warning signs tell drivers to yield for pedestrians on crosswalks on busy Chapel Hill thoroughfares. But students and campus workers still have to wait while cars zoom by, before they get their chance to walk.
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Road Worrier: More jobs and fewer stoplights mark a highway’s economic value
The state Department of Transportation will decide which new highways to build first after it asks a computer model to predict how many jobs will be created by each highway project over the next 30 years. Eastern North Carolina leaders look for high numbers in an economic study of the U.S. 70 highway...
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Road Worrier: NC leaders hope road dollars can sweeten a sour economy
Legislators and Gov. Pat McCrory say the new Strategic Mobility Formula will focus road-building money on projects that stimulate economic development. But transportation professionals focus their spending priorities on cutting congestion and reducing travel times.
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Road Worrier: While NC legislators deliberate, young immigrants drive
The NC Division of Motor Vehicles has issued thousands of licenses to young immigrants taking part in a federal program that postpones deportation for two years. A few hundred thousand immigrants here illegally would be eligible to drive under immigration legislation that also includes tough enforcement...

