State highway in North Carolina, US
Introduction North Carolina has more than 80,500 miles of state-owned highways, more than any other state besides Texas. Unlike Texas, which owns one-fourth of the 322,000 miles of roads in…
Despite all the warning signals—the surprising sanity in Sacramento that pulled the plug on California’s $77 million high speed rail project–not to mention the decline in transit ridership— mostly due…
The hero worship continues. On the Durham Freeway this morning, I came upon a car with baseball caps lining the inside of the rear window. No, they weren’t declaring their…
Earlier this week I was nearly sideswiped by a car whose driver was distracted while driving nearly 70 miles an hour on the Durham Freeway. Was the culprit a phone?…
Here’s one more reason why visiting or attempting to do business in Chapel Hill may become even more burdensome. I challenge the Nanny-Staters to explain the intellectual difference between banning…
Yesterday while driving on the Durham Freeway I spotted yet another car festooned with multiple bumper stickers. Among the five or six leftist messages slapped on the back bumper were…
Today I drove next to a compact car with two stickers attached to its bumper: Obama 08 Torture is a moral issue I’m just wondering if the driver thinks being…
Harry Rodenhizer, who died Wednesday, was the kind of man of which there are too few, certainly in Durham anyway. He didn’t mince words, play the political-correctness game or jump…
After the hit-and-run fatality on Duke Street in January there was much talk on the Trinity Park listserv that the proposed East End Connector would help with traffic on Duke…
After Durham Mayor Bill Bell’s State of the City address yesterday Herald-Sun reporter Ray Gronberg got this reaction from Larry Hester: But a longtime critic of the city’s development strategy,…