Lane closures that caused unusual traffic slowdowns on Albany’s downtown Highway 20 couplet Wednesday should be a thing of the past, for this year anyway.
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Idling, or stop and restart? Now we know
Among the questions that arise when we’re stuck in a queue of vehicles waiting for a flagger to let us proceed, there is this one: Is it better to keep the engine idling, or to turn it off.
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