Road Worrier:Oh, dear. Some native-born drivers are ready to re-fight the War of Northern Aggression.

Road Worrier: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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Repairs are picking up in the Triangle, but short government funds could keep us driving on broken pavement for months to come.

Road Worrier:A recent column about North Carolina's "wipers on, headlights on" rule has sparked household debates.

Kerry//Don't call it a bridge to nowhere. Think of Wendell Falls Parkway as the exit to somewhere, someday.

Claire Kiven would have an easier time slogging through the rain on Strickland Road near her home in North Raleigh if other drivers obeyed North Carolina's wipers-on, lights-on law.

Road Worrier:Ruth Funk was braking for a red light on Creedmoor Road in North Raleigh last summer when an inattentive, text-messaging teen driver banged into her bumper.

Road Worrier:An analyst cites two reasons that crude oil and retail gasoline prices have seemed out of sync lately.