In honor of the Thanksgiving leftovers we’re all helping ourselves to this weekend, we present a smorgasbord of questions.
Road Warrior
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It’s a tug-of-war to keep traffic efficient for vehicles and safe for pedestrians in the Las Vegas Valley. This year, more than 35 pedestrians have been struck by cars and killed in the area.
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.
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.
Get used to it. That’s pretty much going to be today’s advice.
Like a lot of new and developing areas in Southern Nevada, there wasn’t much of a traffic foundation laid when folks started moving into Providence.
This reality that we all share? It is deceptive.
Some problems cannot be solved. They can only be managed.
Our government serves a purpose. It’s not the one you’re thinking of, either.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes, when you’re looking for a solid answer to a pretty simple question, what you end up getting is a maybe, but it depends.
Yes, you can do this. No, you can’t do that. And that road you hate? Get over it. The road you want more of? Nope, not gonna happen.