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Click it or ticket: Seatbelt checks happening all over NC for Memorial Day holiday Buckle up! Highway patrol and other law enforcement agencies will be watching for drivers and passengers not wearing seatbelts now through June 6. Author: Megan Allman (WFMY News 2 Digital) Published: 1:25 PM EDT May 24, 2021 Updated: 1:28 PM EDT May 24, 2021 RALEIGH, N.C. — Fasten your seatbelt or you could get a ticket. It's as simple as that.  The North Carolina Department of Transportation launched its Click It or Ticket campaign on Monday ahead of the busy...

More Than 6 Million Pounds of Roadside Litter Collected This Year   Yearly total to date now matches total litter collection in 2020 RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Transportation’s crews, contractors, and volunteers have collected more than 6 million pounds of litter from roadsides and are on pace to exceed the record for litter collection set in 2019. As of Wednesday, 6.3 million pounds of litter have been picked up from roadsides as a part of this year’s litter removal efforts. That’s roughly the same amount as was collected in 2020 and puts the state on track to surpass 2019�...

FUQUAY-VARINA — The idea dates back to the 1970s: Build a circle road around Fuquay-Varina to help keep drivers who are just passing through town from jamming up downtown streets. On Friday, the final segment of that circle road, Judd Parkway, was opened to traffic. The 1.8-mile northwest leg connects N.C. 55 with N.C. 42 through a largely undeveloped landscape of fields and woods, completing the parkway’s seven-mile circle around the town. The land around the road won’t remain undeveloped; Fuquay-Varina’s population has nearly doubled in the last decade, to about 33,000. ...

Autonomous Shuttle Launches at Wright Brothers Memorial A three-month pilot project to test small, electric autonomous shuttles in North Carolina launched at the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills. The project will inform other driverless initiatives in the state. April 23, 2021 •  North Carolina Department of Transportation Perhaps it’s only fitting that the site of early flight in North Carolina is today a launch area for a self-driving electric shuttle. The North Carolina Department of Transportation, (NCDOT) in partnership with...

North Carolina DOT, National Park Service launch autonomous shuttle Autonomous shuttle launched at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills April 22, 2021 / 2 minute read Image: North Carolina DOT The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the National Park Service this week announced the launch of the first self-driving vehicle to be tested at a recreational public lands site in the nation. The Connected Autonomous Shuttle Supporting Innovation (CASSI) was launched at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills—the site of the world’s fi...