Gas prices fall, but bus riders keep seats
Road Worrier: Gas prices have dropped to about half of what we paid during the worst of the summer, but local buses still do a pretty good business.
$700 billion plan offers tidbits to bike commuters
Road Worrier: When Congress put together a $700 billion bonanza for big people who ride limos to work on Wall Street, it threw in a $20 tidbit for little people who ride bikes to work on Main Street.
Pedestrian deaths increase in Triangle
Road Worrier: The state Department of Transportation says 17 pedestrians died from January through September this year in Wake, Durham and Orange counties -- a figure that does not include five late-October deaths.
Gas prices are lowest since last Halloween
Road Worrier:Gas prices are falling faster than Isaac Newton's apple, and even faster than the Dow Jones average. Times are bad, but this is good.
Scooter convert keeps faith
Road Worrier:Now, after a long and sticky summer, this news for scooter skeptics: Gina Fry is still in the saddle.
Gas prices slow to fall in Triangle
Road Worrier:A month later, Hurricane Ike is a distant memory -- except at Triangle gas pumps. Gas prices are higher in the Triangle than anywhere else in North Carolina, according to the Oil Price Information Service.
Telecommuters look smart as gas prices go up
Road Worrier:This summer, Gloria Jahnke joined the ranks of a modest movement to let workers stay home a few days a month -- and phone it in.
Handicapped parking law invites abuse
Road Worrier:Here's how downtown Raleigh became a park-all-day zone for able-bodied freeloaders who masquerade as disabled: Bad law, no enforcement.
Parking rules get abused
Road Worrier:Premium parking spots on Fayetteville Street are hogged all day, almost every day, by a few drivers who are exploiting a state parking law that is supposed to give preferential treatment to people with doctor-certified physical handicaps.
Are visitors with handicaps cheated out of parking?
Road Worrier:Some drivers appear able-bodied but still qualify for handicapped parking, because of respiratory ailments or other conditions that are not obvious.
DMV system to wipe out inspection stickers
Road Worrier:Starting in October, drivers no longer will receive date-punched stickers to prove that a car has been inspected and to remind them when next year's checkup is due.
Grown-ups carpool, so why can't kids?
Road Worrier:Luana Deans isn't ready to let her 5-year-old, Eva, ride the school bus, but she's weary of the so-called "carpool" lane at Stough Elementary in West Raleigh.
Cameras credited with cutting crashes
Road Worrier:Say what you will about those ruthless robot red-light cameras that send you $50 traffic tickets with photographic proof that your car ran a red light.
No single cause in traffic death spike
Road Worrier:After pulling people out of wrecks for 35 years as a volunteer firefighter, Bob Edmundson is dismayed to learn that North Carolina's traffic death toll last year was the worst in three decades.
Where do gas taxes really go?
Road Worrier:The News & Observer reported last week that the state Department of Transportation is suffering as drivers cut spending on two big sources of DOT taxes: gas and car sales.
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