Aside from being tasked with planning and creating new highways, the Nevada Department of Transportation is also responsible for keeping the roads clean and flowing smoothly.
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Although new regulations went into effect Oct. 1, giving a reminder ahead of the new year could prove useful for Las Vegas Valley drivers, to ensure they’re following the law.
Now six months in and dozens of emails from angry drivers later, the Nevada Department of Transportation announced they were making the first modification to the lanes.
HopSkipDrive aims to cater to the working parent who isn’t able to take their children to extracurricular activities or at-risk youth not being able to get to school due to logistical issues.
Help is on the way, but changes to the U.S. 95/215/Lake Mead Parkway interchange are still up to 10 years away.
Many Las Vegas residents complain the $200 million I-15/Tropicana interchange project won’t start until a year after Allegiant Stadium opens and won’t be done until fall 2024.
A joint effort between mobility app Moovit, Microsoft’s Azure Maps and remote assistance app Aira, commuting via Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada buses or mixed trips combing ride hailing companies is led by a trained professional who become the eyes of the visually impaired user.
With the Thanksgiving holiday travel week fast approaching, McCarran airport officials are hoping to keep travelers from being turkeys when it comes to navigating their facility.
Between 2016 and 2018, 55.4 percent of fatal crashes were caused by a driver under the influence of alcohol, drugs or a combination of the two.
Walking around the Silver State is becoming increasingly more dangerous as Nevada finds itself among the most deadly states for pedestrians.
If you drive around the Las Vegas Valley enough, you’re bound to see a vehicle that is visibly releasing more smog than is allowed by law.
When Allegiant Stadium opens in 2020, it will have the same on-site parking issues that most NFL-sized stadiums built in the last decade in the middle of a city have.
One of the biggest gripes since Project Neon’s completion and the introduction of the 22 miles of HOV lanes—aside from them being in existence at all—is the spacing of the entry exit points for the lanes.
Motorists will have to wait a little longer for the dynamic traffic messaging signs on area highways to go live, but if all goes as planned it will be an early Christmas present from the state Department of Transportation.
Almost 47,000 specialty license plate registrations have occurred in the last year between the Golden Knights and Raiders editions.
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