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Richard Stradling

Raleigh

Transportation Reporter at The News & Observer

Transportation reporter for The News & Observer. Planes, trains and automobiles, plus bicycles, scooters and just plain walking. Also #census2020

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | newsobserver.com | Richard Stradling

    Examiner Tya Barnes makes Sidney Tindall Jr.'s photo for a new drivers license at the NCDMV driver license office on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh on Aug. 29, 2024. The DMV will keep 20 offices open on Saturday mornings as it moves to summer hours. [email protected] The Division of Motor Vehicles will begin offering summer Saturday hours at some of its busiest driver's license offices this weekend, including two in the Triangle that haven't been open on Saturdays before.

  • 1 week ago | newsobserver.com | Richard Stradling

    Rebuilding a section of Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge will take tons of rock, and now the N.C. Department of Transportation has a pretty good idea where it will come from. NCDOT received permission from federal officials to mine up to 3 million cubic yards of stone from Pisgah National Forest across the river from the highway.

  • 1 week ago | charlotteobserver.com | Richard Stradling

    DMV Commissioner Paul Tine greets LaKishia Bell, a drivers license examiner at the DMV East Raleigh office, on Friday, May 9, 2025. The News & Observer It would seem that Paul Tine has one of the least desirable jobs in state government. As the new Division of Motor Vehicles commissioner, Tine oversees an agency most people dread dealing with. But Tine says the challenge of improving the DMV and eliminating the long lines and wait times at driver's license offices is what attracted him to the job.

  • 2 weeks ago | heraldsun.com | Richard Stradling

    RALEIGHState lawmakers have begun to weigh in on the idea of creating a new toll road in the Triangle. The House version of the budget passed Wednesday would prevent the state from turning U.S. 1 into a toll road in northern Wake County. Regional transportation planners have proposed some sort of toll to accelerate conversion of the congested four-lane highway into a six-lane expressway.

  • 2 weeks ago | ttnews.com | Richard Stradling

    Business Safety Logistics TCA May 21, 2025 11:44 AM, EDT Norfolk Southern Looks to Restore Tracks Connecting Blue Ridge to Rest of N.C. The first train to Asheville since Hurricane Helene.

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