There are certain things that motorists do on the road that get under everybody’s skin. Hello, road rage!
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A list of road work ahead for the Las Vegas Valley.
NASCAR Weekend is right around the corner, and we all know what that means: A bunch of Kurt and Kyle Busch wannabes will be out in force, driving to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, probably too fast, for the best-attended sporting event west of Texas.
A list of road work ahead for the Las Vegas Valley.
January was one of the bloodiest months in history for pedestrians in Southern Nevada.
Nobody likes a rat, but apparently that doesn’t bother too many Road Warrior readers. They want to be rats. Or, more accurately, they want their neighbors to pay their fair share of licensing and registration fees for their vehicles once they have established residency and want to know how they tell authorities about neighbors who haven’t complied.
There are reminders everywhere that encourage us to “share the road.”
It’s February, and Las Vegans know what that means: The weather is going to get nicer, the road crews are going to want to get out there before it gets too hot, and that means one thing — more orange cones!
It’s going to take some time for the dust to settle on last week’s explosive audit findings that Southern Nevada taxi companies took advantage of their customers to the tune of $47 million in unnecessary fuel surcharges and overpriced credit-card fees.
When you’re flying into Las Vegas, you can always tell the tourists from the locals on the plane.
Don’t they make you mad, those ineligible high-occupancy-vehicle lane scofflaws who treat the special diamond lane as just another travel lane?
This week, there will be two different kinds of motorists on local streets — those who are trying to get to CES 2016 and those who are trying to stay as far away from it as possible.
I’m an amateur when it comes to celebrating the arrival of the new year in the resort corridor. In my more than 20 years as a denizen of Southern Nevada, I’ve spent just two New Year’s Eves among the revelers, estimated this year to be around 332,000 strong.
After some of the carnage they’ve seen on local streets lately, Warrior readers Don and Chris said all they want for Christmas are a few well-placed countdown signals that have been tested across the country and are in use in some cities in Asia.
It’s beginning to look a lot like collision season. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says 20 percent of all collisions take place in shopping center parking lots during the holiday season.
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