Ian Salvatierra admits he writes text messages while driving. He also fesses up to speeding when he is late for practice.
Road Warrior
Contact Mick Akers at makers@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers on Twitter.
F rustrations over the ongoing road work along Martin Luther King Boulevard continue to brew. The city of Las Vegas is widening the stretch between Carey Avenue and Alta Drive to three lanes in each direction.
The gathering of tatted-up dudes in baggy cargo shorts checking out the underbelly of the Velociraptor caught my eye first.
Here’s the million-dollar question: Would bad drivers become better drivers if they were required to take a class before each license renewal? Or is it that bad drivers simply don’t care about the laws; they just want to get from Point A to Point B as fast as possible?
What happens at Sam Boyd Stadium eventually ends. But what stays at Sam Boyd Stadium is you. For hours, apparently.
With the Department of Motor Vehicles preparing to launch a new driver’s license renewal process, several readers had follow-up questions regarding the documentation needed to obtain an advanced, secure-issuance license, the type that in a few years will be the only driver’s license accepted to board an airplane and to enter certain federal buildings. The new regulations, which were included in the federal Real ID Act, will go into effect early next year.
With apologies to those who fought to attain our city’s latest National Scenic Byway designation, I’m struggling to see the beauty of this strip-club-and-tattoo-parlor-littered stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard.
In recent years, signs marking school zones and the hours during which they’re in effect have been mostly replaced by flashing signs. But some of the older signs still exist, and they tend to cause some confusion.
Not long ago, a 78-year-old woman called to express her concern after she tried to renew her driver’s license and was asked for a birth certificate, marriage license and her firstborn child.
The Department of Motor Vehicles has had its battles with motorists who sport vanity plates. The agency can refuse to issue plates it deems inappropriate, although, as we saw last summer, the decisions of DMV officials sometimes can be overturned. But what’s the deal with bumper stickers?
Construction zones create a playing field for a little game of chicken.
Sometimes when new laws are passed, there’s a big to-do. By the time they’re enacted, everyone has forgotten about them and wonders, for instance, why the heck they need their birth certificate to renew their driver’s license. The Department of Motor Vehicle’s Real I.D. Act will get rolling in January. Check out www.dmvnv.com to get all the details about the act and its regulations.
I’ve fielded this question at least a dozen times since I’ve taken over this job: When will the onramps and offramps on U.S. Highway 95 at Martin Luther King Boulevard open?
My habit of text messaging while driving went by the wayside awhile ago, but it wasn’t because I believed I posed a danger to fellow drivers. I just happened to learn the hard way that I wasn’t very good at it.
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