driving

Planning to drive this holiday season? According to the Federal Highway Administration, America will find itself in the middle of the stimulus construction during the holidays. Of the 13,300 road construction projects, more than 6,100 are under construction and more than 5,800 projects have been completed, the agency says.

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Our country is vast and what happens in one place probably won’t be repeated in another part of the country. We are diverse and come in every size, shape and color. Please don’t make snap judgments that we’re one and the same.

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While Ned Levi continues to recommend virtually all international travelers obtain a passport, not a passport card as their primary travel identification document, even for Caribbean cruises, he found he had a persuasive reason to order a passport card along with his new passport.

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When working at her bookstore, White Birch Books, in North Conway, N.H., which is in the middle of the White Mountains, my daughter Laura gets all kinds of questions from tourists, but this one takes the cake.

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The latest epidemic of traffic sign hacking started innocently enough, when eco-activists changed two road signs to encourage motorists to stop driving and use a bike.

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His travel agent sells him an International Driving Permit, but when Michael Elliott arrives in Grenada, he’s told he needs to buy a local permit. Should his agency refund the money he spent on the first permit? And what’s the deal with International Driving Permits, anyway?

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The State Department has issued a strongly-worded Travel Alert for US citizens traveling and living in Mexico. Bottom line: next time you go south of the border, you have to be street smart.

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Strange as it seems, in France, driving blind drunk — I mean driving blind (as in can’t see) and drunk — with a drunk friend is a punishable offense. These clowns got a good slap on the wrist.

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Americans drove 53.2 billion miles less since November than they did over the same period last year, according to a report by the Federal Highway Administration, an arm of the Department of Transportation.

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Here’s a tip from your friends in the cellular industry lobby: Don’t text and drive this summer. Please.

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