Road Worrier:  Wake County commissioners haven't made the hard political decision on whether to let voters consider a sales tax increase in November to pay for new trains and more buses.

Road Worrier:  The worst year ever for gas prices was 2011. Prices have risen by 20 cents a gallon since Christmas. Forecasters figure we'll see $4 gas again this spring, for the first time in four years.

Road Worrier:  When they bought their hybrid Honda Civics back in 2006, Aneil K. Mishra and Jeffrey A. Wald expected to save a lot of money on gasoline. Since then, both men have been disappointed with their hybrids.

Road Worrier:  Dad had high blood pressure, especially when I was driving. Teen drivers now will have to produce logs to document 60 hours of supervised driving spread over at least six weeks.

Road Worrier:  Sure, it would be hard to push through the legislature. It would be harder still to enforce on the highway.

Road Worrier:  When Raleigh police Lt. Tim Tomczak heard I wanted to chat about cellphones and distracted driving, he almost missed his exit.

Road Worrier:  Phil Brookover figured maybe the end was near when he spotted an ominous combination of letters on the license plate of a car ahead of him: ZZZ.

Road Worrier:  Starting next year, folks who ride the bus to work on Interstate 40 won't always have to sit through traffic jams like, you know, common car drivers.

Road Worrier:  Mark Reuss, the president of General Motors North America, took pains Monday to assure Wade Ponder that his Chevy Volt will not burn up and kill him.

Road Worrier:  David Cooke, the Wake County manager, may have reshaped the Triangle's debate over transit Monday when he deftly separated a few billion dollars of buses and trains into two sensible packages: What we can confidently pay for, and what we can only hope for.

Road Worrier:  At first, Rosalyn Raeford wasn't sure whether to believe the safety inspector who flunked her car, or the one who passed it a few hours later. The state Division of Motor Vehicles wasn't sure either.

Road Worrier:  When the transit skeptics at a conservative, anti-tax business group speak up in favor of increasing the sales tax to expand transit service, I feel the earth move under my feet.

Road Worrier:  Drivers on Hillsborough Street are still flummoxed by a twin-ring roundabout that replaced the stoplight at Pullen Road more than a year ago. And they're still crashing their mopeds, bikes and cars there.

Road Worrier:  Decades of crashes have scraped chunks of bark off old oaks on a narrow curve of N.C. 751 near the Duke campus. One scarred tree tells the stories of two young men who died here, 14 years apart.

Tuesday's front-page Road Worrier column misspelled the first name of Terry Duff, a Garner-area resident who expressed concern about President Barack Obama's remarks last week on bridge safety.

Road Worrier:  President Barack Obama scared some of us last week when he stopped in Raleigh to pitch his American Jobs Act. He told an audience at N.C. State University that the nation should beef up spending to repair bad bridges.

Road Worrier:  Standing on the curb at Horne and Hillsborough streets in Raleigh, Laura Gilleran wanted to get off the phone before the light turned green.