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(For education and discussion purposes, only) A research group funded by road builders called Wednesday for more state highway spending to avert a costly increase in accidents, travel delays and wear-and-tear on everyone's cars. [One local planning organization says highways account for only 52 percent of the transportation spending needed in the Durham and Chapel Hill area by 2025, with 44 percent earmarked for rail and bus transit.] North Carolina has failed to repair and expand its highway network quickly enough to keep pace with growing passenger and truck traffic and crumbling roads and bridges... (snip) Citing census and highway...

Winston-Salem, however, is one of the few places where city traffic engineers keep studying trouble spots after improvements are made, state transportation-safety officials said. The documentation is at the core of a long-running but little-known effort by city officials in Winston-Salem to make the streets safer. Over the past 17 years, the Winston-Salem Department of Transportation's Safety Improvement Program has tried to reduce wrecks at 469 intersections. Studies completed this year show that at 58 spots, the number of wrecks dropped by more than 25 percent - from 1,064 to 786, over a study period of about four years. The...