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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.
One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is take the keys away from the family patriarch. When it’s time for that to happen, it’s bound to provoke arguments, heartaches and headaches for all parties involved. But it’s also a necessary step in the life cycle.
You’ve heard that story about the blind men describing the elephant. Each person had different descriptions of what it was based on what part of the elephant they were touching.
I’m not sure why people are so fascinated with license plates, but they are. These hunks of aluminum that we are required to attach to our vehicles were the subject of two recent inquiries from Warrior readers.
— Clark County Aviation Director Rosemary Vassiliadis announced that seven gates in the D concourse are going to be opened for international use with a tunnel to be built connecting those gates with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Terminal 3. The $51 million project is scheduled for completion in early 2017.
Residents of northwest Las Vegas recently got a different product placement, and they didn’t even have to go to the movie theater to see it. Warrior reader Lynda described her surprise when driving north on U.S. Highway 95 recently.
Alert Warrior readers brought it to the attention of Warrior Central that there are some signs on the freeway that made them scratch their heads. Some readers probably remember the exit sign on northbound U.S. Highway 95 that once showed the mileage to “Eastern Blvd.”
Kids are crying, but their moms are rejoicing: It’s back-to-school time! And that means it’s also time for motorists to go on high alert around those hallowed halls of knowledge because, as we all know, kids seem to do the dumbest things when walking near a street.
One would think that when streets are completely closed and blocked, traffic signals on streets intersecting the closed streets would be modified since there’s no traffic as a result of the closure. But that’s not always the case.
A lot of people may have gotten that feeling recently when they’ve hit the road and seen some recently issued Nevada license plates. The demand for more number-letter variations has brought a new look to Nevada license plates.
The city of Las Vegas discourages traffic along Azure Drive by filling it with speed bumps and a street feature that I don’t think exists anywhere else in the valley — a “three-quarters traffic signal.”
Transportation is, of course, a top issue in cities nationwide. Unfortunately, there isn’t a single solution to solving transportation challenges that is cheap or easy.
If you’re a commuter who uses southbound Interstate 15 to get to work in the morning, begin planning an alternate route now. You’ll thank me June 22 when it’s a lead-pipe cinch that I-15 is going to turn into a slow-moving parking lot.
Thanks to a new Regional Transportation Commission program that starts today, motorists will be armed with information that might ease the pain of a cone-filled commute.
Rock in Rio, which may be one of the coolest international music festivals ever to land in Las Vegas, is going cold turkey on cars.
