Pilot Warrior Archive

Traffic engineers vow improvements for accident-prone Norfolk junction

PAUL WEBER is a get-along kind of guy. When he talked about the woman who flipped him off on the Berkley Bridge the other day, he added, "She looked like a nice woman."

In heavy traffic, some drivers 'cheat' at Chesapeake intersection

TRAFFIC CONGESTION in Deep Creek is more or less a terminal condition. All we can hope for is something to relieve the pain . Reader Tom Banford is looking for a shot of morphine at the intersection of George Washington Highway and Willowwood Drive. There, he says, the right-turn-only lane from George Washington is subject to shenanigans .

New restaurant packs them in, much to neighbors' dismay

ASK BOB HUFF about his '67 Ford Galaxie, the cream-colored one with the accent flames and the 390 engine, and pull up a chair. Huff loves cars; turning them into hot rods is both his profession and his hobby.

Turns out electronic highway signs aren't as 'variable' as drivers hoped

it was a painful TIME, you may recall, waiting for those electronic highway signs, which promised to yank us by our very lapels into the Great Age of Communication.

Lack of sidewalk at Laskin Gateway forces walkers, cyclists into traffic

IN ITS ROLE AS THE U.S. 58 route to the Oceanfront, Laskin Road historically has been a gateway. Now, with the Laskin Road gateway project, it looks like one.

Clearing up question of a few feet would help parking crunch

IT'S ONLY a short stretch of sidewalk. But when you're searching for a parking space in Ghent, every linear foot counts. Jacky Fisher says Norfolk is dangling a few precious parking spaces in front of drivers in the 600 block of Olney Road, at Stockley Gardens, but making them off-limits.

The fixes were in, then they weren't; now, let's hope, they're in for good

A COUPLE OF E-MAILS bring to mind 2002 and the last Thanksgiving for the $399 kitchen set Mrs. Warrior and I bought with our wedding money. When the chairs splintered, I performed surgery with clamps and Elmer's Wood Glue. The fix held - until two of the chairs collapsed, almost simultaneously, at the dinner table.

Three years later, communities still waiting for Shore Drive caution lights

THIS HAS GONE on too long. On that, we can all agree. Three years and two days ago, Tammy Dodson wrote me about the problem of fast-moving cars on Shore Drive emerging westbound from First Landing State Park into a residential area. Virginia Beach said the answer was solar-powered caution lights, warning motorists that the speed limit drops from 55 mph in the park to 45 mph.

Parked cars on narrow street send motorists on a detour

A SKINNY CAR is one answer to the dilemma on Mangrove Avenue in Norfolk. The street isn't wide enough for two cars to pass. What's needed, clearly, is more road. Or less car.

Norfolk's Chelsea directional a sign of the times - long-forgotten times

Times like these, I sure wish George Tucker were still in the house. He left us a few years back, at age 95, The Pilot's local history columnist - a historian who wrote about history from firsthand experience. I thought about him when reader Grace Tazewell asked me about a sign at the foot of the bridge leading to the Midtown Tunnel on Brambleton Avenue in Norfolk.