Road Worrier: Be careful that you don't poison your car with ethanol, the alcohol fuel made mostly from corn.
Modified: 11/17/09 05:49:13 AM
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The chance to let someone else drive is a new option for commuters in eastern Wake County. The Zebulon-Wendell Express bus to Raleigh started rolling Oct. 26.
Modified: 11/11/09 04:22:07 PM
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Here's another little glimmering sign that we may have begun to pull out of this dizzy economic swan dive: After 18 months of driving a lot less, we're starting to drive a little more.
Modified: 11/03/09 06:14:45 AM
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The Rev. Kevin Martin saw the crunch -- and heard it -- as he walked to his car after Sunday lunch in North Raleigh.
Modified: 10/27/09 06:09:08 AM
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Warning: Traffic safety engineers at work. This time, let's hope their work makes things better -- not worse.
Modified: 10/20/09 06:15:13 AM
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In the difficult campaign to stop teens from texting when they drive, state troopers employ old-school tactics: Scare 'em into submission.
Modified: 10/13/09 05:53:27 AM
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Watch out for white-tailed deer when you drive. They're pretty, they're brazen, and they're clueless.
Modified: 10/06/09 06:10:34 AM
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That rough stretch of N.C. 54 in southern Durham isn't a bit better since the road repair crew packed up and left a few weeks ago, Jason Thomasson says. It's worse.
Modified: 10/20/09 06:15:13 AM
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Pretty soon you'll have to pay to park on the street in downtown Raleigh. You'll want to get in the habit of carrying change in your pocket, or Visa or MasterCard in your wallet.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:40:41 AM
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The U.S. 70 Clayton Bypass is just about the prettiest, fastest country road in the Triangle. But should it win a national transportation prize for efficiency and innovation?
Modified: 09/22/09 07:41:24 AM
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When Debra Aycock turns left onto U.S. 15-501 from the Interstate 40 off-ramp, she makes her best guess about how to stay in twin turn lanes that curve across 10 lanes of traffic.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:40:50 AM
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The school zone signs are plain to see on Dixie Trail in West Raleigh, cutting the speed limit to 25 mph on school days from 7 to 8:45 a.m. and 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:18:36 AM
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Sometimes after Sunday dinner with Mom, I get lost trying to find my way home. It should be easy.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:28:55 AM
Road Worrier:
If you want to talk about something that will smooth a rough ride, let's savor the news about repaving Wade and Glenwood avenues in Raleigh.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:30:04 AM
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This year the General Assembly outlawed a few of the dumb, distracting things drivers do when they really should keep two thumbs on the wheel and two eyes on the road.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:52:54 AM
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The morning-rush traffic on Leesville Road, north of the 540 Outer Loop, will get better late this year. First, though, it probably will get worse.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:23:51 AM
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For years, as a young driver growing up in West Raleigh, Emily Cochran had a tough time navigating the Beltline.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:55:35 AM
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The morning-rush traffic on Leesville Road, north of the 540 Outer Loop, will get better late this year. First, though, it probably will get worse.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:34:27 AM
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Our license plates really aren't intended to serve as billboards for car dealers and sports teams.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:36:06 AM
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A grass-roots group called Save 64 is pushing back against a proposal to speed the rush-hour flow on a sluggish stretch of U.S. 64 in western Wake County.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:59:59 AM
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An environmental group says the N.C. Turnpike Authority is far too optimistic in its forecast for car counts and toll collections on the planned Triangle Expressway.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:26:10 AM
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This week, the state Division of Motor Vehicles will stop handing out driver's licenses at its six local offices across Wake County. Instead, DMV will start delivering licenses by mail.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:25:38 AM
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Anywhere else, a footbridge is just a footbridge. In Durham, it's complicated.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:29:35 AM
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The Road Worrier received a flood of answers -- all of them roughly the same -- to one reader's innocent question about a local driving quirk.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:36:48 AM
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Oh, dear. Some native-born drivers are ready to re-fight the War of Northern Aggression.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:30:20 AM
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Donna Stoker came here a decade ago from upstate New York, and it took her a few years to adopt the aggressive North Raleigh style of rush-hour driving.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:39:00 AM
The twin towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill rarely see eye-to-eye with the state Department of Transportation, so it was no surprise last month when Carrboro scorned the DOT's plan to widen part of Smith Level Road on the south side of town.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:10:51 AM
A new report from the AAA Traffic Safety Foundation says Americans think aggressive driving is dangerous when others do it; 78 percent called it a serious hazard in a survey last year.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:16:48 AM
When a bad back and bad knees forced her to get a handicapped parking placard six years ago, Lynn Johnson asked the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles for a copy of rules that would explain who could use it and who could not.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:12:55 AM
Road Worrier:
If you want to leave your car at a downtown curb for just a few minutes, you'll have pay with coins or a credit card.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:29:05 AM
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