Drivetime Mahatma by Frank Fellone
Dear Mahatma: After reading your column last week, I couldn't help but think of the Kingston Trio's song about "poor old Charlie" riding on the whatever line. …
by Frank Fellone January 15, 2022Dear Mahatma: Just when I thought U.S. 70 in the Cache River Bottoms couldn't get any worse, it has! I feel like I'm on a stagecoach ride in 2021. Please give …
by Frank Fellone January 1, 2022Dear Master of the Highways: Would you please contact your friends in our illustrious Arkansas Department of Transportation and ask them why they would spend m…
by Frank Fellone December 18, 2021O Master of All Things Paved: We have recently taken on another home improvement project in our money pit in downtown Little Rock. This means we make numerous …
by Frank Fellone December 11, 2021Greetings: Another year has come and almost gone and even the pandemic is yesterday's news. Yet still no word on the widening of U.S. 67/167 through Jacksonvil…
by Frank Fellone December 4, 2021Dear Mahatma: Overheard at lunch recently -- a bridge is going to be built over the Arkansas River between Mayflower and Roland. Truth? -- Sandy
by Frank Fellone November 27, 2021Dear Mahatma: This is about Southwest Little Rock, a part of the city you don't often write about. The intersection of Baseline and Chicot Road is so rough, un…
by Frank Fellone November 20, 2021Dear Mahatma: The whole discussion around vaccine and mask mandates being unconstitutional has made me wonder. Are stop signs unconstitutional? Don't they unfa…
by Frank Fellone November 13, 2021Dear Mahatma: The past few times I have driven to the Little Rock airport during the pitch-black wee morning hours, I have noticed that every single streetligh…
by Frank Fellone November 6, 2021Dear Mahatma: Seems to me many stop signs should immediately be replaced with yield signs. What is the reason for a stop sign? Someone who has the right-of-way…
by Frank Fellone October 30, 2021Dear Mahatma: The Little Rock street department has done a marvelous job with the overlay on Cantrell Road from Junior Deputy to President Clinton Avenue. It's…
by Frank Fellone October 23, 2021Dear Arbiter of the Arteries: Before the widening project on Interstate 630, there was a basketball court under the overpass where the highway crossed Mississi…
by Frank Fellone October 16, 2021Dear Mahatma: I drove on Cantrell Hill around noon Tuesday and they had the outside lane closed off and about six bucket trucks parked. I was so excited!!! -- …
by Frank Fellone October 9, 2021Hi, Mahatma. Several of us old biddies were discussing how stressful it is to drive these days. Where is all this traffic coming from? Do you think the jobless…
by Frank Fellone October 2, 2021Dear Mahatma: The left turn light at Scott Street and Markham Street -- turning north onto the Main Street Bridge -- is incredibly short at rush hour. We timed…
by Frank Fellone September 25, 2021