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This week readers want to know what happened to the shrubbery that was removed from Interstate 15 near Lake Mead Boulevard; who is Raphael Rivera and why was the Frontage Road along the Las Vegas Beltway in the southwest named for him; and are there any alternate routes to Southern California instead of waiting for the blasting on I-15 to finish? And the Road Warrior eats some crow after his favorite football team lost Sunday.
I was talking to a couple of Carson City insiders who indicated that banning cell phone use while driving is unlikely to be passed during the upcoming 2009 legislative session.
This week readers want to know when Interstate 15 will be shut down for blasting; what is the reason for the construction on Lone Mountain Road in North Las Vegas; and what is going on with the bus service at Meadows mall.
The Hoover Dam Bypass project was supposed to be wrapping up about this time.
This week readers want to know when Azure Avenue will go west all the way through to Lamb Boulevard; whether Clark County plans on putting up street lights on the western Las Vegas Beltway; and how to get on Interstate 15 north from U.S. Highway 95.
This week readers want to know what is all that construction at Flamingo Road and Cabana Drive; is a motorist allowed to switch lanes while traveling through an intersection, and why are drivers under 21 allowed to have a blood alcohol level below 0.02 percent? And the Road Warrior shares some good news regarding fuel prices.
How much money do you expect will be spent on transportation projects in Southern Nevada over the next 20 years? $500 million? $1 billion? $5 billion?
This week readers (really, really, really) want to know when the Clark County Public Works Department is going to open the Lake Mead Boulevard interchange with the Las Vegas Beltway, are the reduced fare fees for Citizens Area Transit being increased and why is one of the runways at McCarran International Airport shut down?
When I spoke to Keith Robinson on Nov. 7, he was quite irate.
This week readers want to know whether to yield or stop at Aliante Parkway and the Las Vegas Beltway, why were the white lines, used to mark a breakdown lane, not repainted after Pollock Drive was repaved, and why do the folks at McCarran International Airport make it so difficult for people who use the remote parking lots to get to the departure terminal?
If you haven’t heard — or are really good at using your remote control to flip off those TV political ads — the country will elect a new president Tuesday.
This week, readers want to know how the law defines running a red light and what the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles will do when it runs through license plates that begin with “Z.” And the Road Warrior offers a special Spook ‘n’ Boo version of Hit ‘n’ Run in preparation for Friday’s scare-fest.
I was driving north on Martin Luther King Boulevard when I looked in the rearview mirror to see three teenage girls in a silver Mercedes sedan motoring behind me.
