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“You can t see nothing when it’s raining. The lines are very hard to see, too. With the lights out, you have to drive really cautiously, be careful,” Joe Nelson, a frequent I-270 driver, said.
Nelson drives the particularly dark stretch of I-270 in the pre-dawn hours every day for work. He said he has made repair requests dating back a decade because of safety concerns.
Mike Abramson of Gaithersburg showed News4 emails he sent to state and local officials as part of his effort to get the lights fixed.
He said the issue dates back to 1997.
In one response from 2017, a Department of Transportation employee noted that the decades-old light fixtures are prone to recurring wiring problems. The email also said the repairs would be 80 percent complete in 60 days.
Should bill to teach about Holocaust in NC schools include Black history lessons, too?
Feb. 24 There s a new push to require North Carolina students to learn about the Holocaust.
But a Durham minister says a bill shouldn t pass unless it also includes lessons about Black history.
Lawmakers have filed a bill that requires the State Board of Education to include instruction of the Holocaust and genocide in the English and social studies standards used in middle schools and high schools. In a news release Monday, Black minister and social justice activist Paul Scott urged lawmakers to oppose the bill if it s not amended to include Black history.