Plane icon fix on I-630 sign set up
Dear Mahatma: Going east on Interstate 630 toward Interstate 30, it would be so nice to have an airport logo directing us to turn right (southbound). Yet the signs only direct you to Pine Bluff or Texarkana. I know how to get to the airport but I’ll bet visitors don’t. Can we get some little airplanes on signs around here to get us to the airport? — Rick
Dear Rick: Word on the rua (Portuguese for street, people) is that a fix is in the works.
This word comes via the ArDot grapevine, but specifically from Steve Frisbee, the agency’s assistant chief engineer for maintenance.
Maintenance of the highways … we suspect Frisbee is busier than a (insert favorite metaphor).
There was an eastbound I-630 supplemental sign up for the airport right before the I-30 interchange, but it was knocked down this year, Frisbee reports. ArDot has a sign re-installation scheduled.
A small airplane above the overhead sign, directing traffic to southbound I-30, will be added.
Dear Mahatma: I love your column. ArDot should give you an honorary CDL or something. The other day a bouncer at a bar asked me to check IDs. Like you say, the bar code, using a bar code reader, is one way. But there is another. Look at which way the license is rotated. An over-21 license is horizontal. An under-21 vertical. — Devoted Reader
Dear Devoted: We did not know. Even though we have several young drivers in the family.
Apparently, we have never had a need to check their ID.
Looking at the website of the Department of Finance & Administration, we also see the vertical format for young people took effect way back on Dec. 11, 2006.
Dear Mahatma: Demolition Derby is being played on our streets by running red lights. Just today, while sitting at three different red lights I had four vehicles turn in front of me after my light had already turned green. I’m glad I’m slow coming out of the block. — Slow on the Pedal
Dear Slow: The consensus at our house is that too many drivers run red lights. After which the drivers who properly waited catch up to the miscreants at the next red light.
You are wise to wait a heartbeat or two for the goobers to blow through. That’s exactly what we have told our sons and grandsons, usually while yelling at them from the passenger seat.
Arkansas Code Annotated 27-51-802 tells drivers that when the light is red, a driver must, duh, stop until the light turns green.