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Road Worrier: State Auditor Beth Wood proves parking tickets were not hers, but the city of Raleigh won’t refund the $245 she paid to remove the boot from her car.
Modified: 05/29/12 02:12:15 PMRoad Worrier: Consultants come up with two new maps for the long-disputed leg of the Triangle Expressway in southern Wake County.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:05:16 AM
Road Worrier: Hundreds of drivers are willing to rack up lots of parking tickets rather than give up their parking spots.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:00:25 AM
NCDOT proposes a new route to spare a sports complex and an apartment project; will hold public hearing next week.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AM
Some drivers penalized for not having toll-billing electronic transponders for trips on a zero-toll section of the 540 Outer Loop, others for mismounted transponders that aren’t reading properly.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMFor tens of thousands of people who walk across Trinity Road in West Raleigh when the Wolfpack is playing football or the N.C. State Fair is in session, maybe it's time to build a tunnel.
Modified: 04/27/12 05:28:40 PM
After one family was slow to pay for its first few trips, worth $2.31 on the Triangle Expressway, the N.C. Turnpike Authority was quick to hit the couple with a civil penalty and late fees worth $37.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AM
Road Worrier: Finally, after more than 100 crashes in 20 months, traffic engineers are rethinking the peculiar design of that twin-ring roundabout on Hillsborough Street.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMRoad Worrier: Michael Sanera, a point man for the state's leading conservative spin tank, recently mixed outrage with innuendo to accuse local planners of lying about a big transit upgrade for Wake County.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AM
Road Worrier: Fans of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were relieved last week when the state Division of Motor Vehicles resumed sales of a unique license plate that features a black bear in profile against green mountains.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AM
Road Worrier: Elaine Petrone of Raleigh wants to know why she and her husband got bills in the mail from the N.C. Turnpike Authority, illustrated with photos of their license plates, for trips on N.C. 540 near Research Triangle Park. The bills were for $0.00.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMRoad Worrier: Heather Peters got the better of two big industries - international carmakers and high-dollar lawyers - when she spurned a class-action lawsuit and went one-on-one against American Honda Motor Co. in a California small claims court.
Modified: 02/07/12 05:10:20 AM
Road Worrier: Since two unhappy guys told the Road Worrier about the deteriorating fuel economy performance of their hybrid Honda Civics, lots of local drivers have spoken in defense of their gas-electric hybrids.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMRoad 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.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AM
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.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMRoad 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.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMRoad 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.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:01:22 AMRoad Worrier: Sure, it would be hard to push through the legislature. It would be harder still to enforce on the highway.
Modified: 12/27/11 06:03:41 AM
Road Worrier: When Raleigh police Lt. Tim Tomczak heard I wanted to chat about cellphones and distracted driving, he almost missed his exit.
Modified: 12/23/11 02:00:52 PMRoad 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.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:00:26 AM
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