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New Year’s Eve makes for tricky commutes

There are, however, many roads and lanes that will be inaccessible for valley residents and visitors soon. That would be thanks to New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas, which is a pretty big annual production. What’s important to remember: avoid the Strip in your car.

Road questions, turkeys have leftovers in common

In honor of the Thanksgiving leftovers we’re all helping ourselves to this weekend, we present a smorgasbord of questions.

Lane markings draw interest under the sun’s glare

The sun in Las Vegas has a keen sense of knowing exactly when we’re on the freeway and have forgotten our sunglasses at home, doesn’t it? And it takes full advantage of that opportunity to shine its very brightest.

Flashing yellow left turn signals really do reduce crashes

Anecdotes are not evidence. We all know this, but it sure is hard to resist turning a story into science. And so it goes with Robert’s question on my favorite topic: Those new flashing yellow left turn signals.

If it looks like a good idea, you should forget about it

It’s funny, when you get one of those ideas that make you think you’ve solved a problem that everyone has, but no one has figured out how to deal with.

No one said traffic rules should make sense

There are rules, and then there are rules. The first kind are those that we understand. We might not like them all the time — rural highway speed limits come to mind — but we get why our elected officials have enacted them. They make a certain sort of sense. Public safety and whatnot.

Some things progress; others just change slowly

Roger wrote in because he travels between Las Vegas and Pahrump regularly on what we in the newspaper business call State Route 160, but normal people call Blue Diamond Road.