The City of Greensboro plans to launch a neighborhood traffic safety program next year.He is one of many people in neighborhoods across the city who are fed +up with speedy drivers on their streets. Greensboro plans to create a new program to tackle the issue and add traffic calming measures in some neighborhoods. On Thursday, the city council got an update on those plans. The city is working to add staff for the program and create a scoring system to decide which neighborhoods will be a priority. While they do that, the council made it clear that they need to get to work on some small changes while these neighborhoods wait. Once the neighborhood traffic program launches, neighborhoods can apply for changes to their streets and would be scored on a number of factors including, speed, the volume of traffic and crashes.
The solutions could include signs, raised sidewalks and speed cushions, which are similar to speed bumps, but they don’t stretch all the way across the road. The city is working to print more signs to put up in neighborhoods. Then they plan to use $500,000 in capital funds on projects once the program gets started in the spring.
Dominant US diplomat of Cold War era Henry Kissinger dies at 100
the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was reviled by critics over human rights, has died aged 100. Kissinger, a German-born Jewish refugee whose career took him from academia to diplomacy and who remained an active voice in foreign policy into his later years, died at his home in Connecticut on Wednesday. Kissinger was at the height of his powers during the 1970s in the middle of the Cold War when he served as national security adviser and secretary of state under Republican President Richard Nixon. After Nixon’s resignation in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal, he remained a diplomatic force as secretary of state under Nixon’s successor, President Gerald Ford. Kissinger was the architect of the U.S. diplomatic opening with China, landmark U.S.-Soviet arms control talks, expanded ties between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and the Paris Peace Accords with North Vietnam. A memorial service will take place in New York, and Kissinger will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, said a source familiar with the arrangements.
Scores reported killed in Gaza after Israel-Hamas truce collapses
Israel’s warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas broke down, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and others onto the streets to seek safety. Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intensive bombardment as the deadline lapsed shortly after dawn, with columns of smoke rising into the sky, Reuters journalists in the city said. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west. Medics and witnesses said the bombing was most intense in Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been sheltering from fighting further north. Houses in central and northern areas were also hit. Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion have laid waste to much of the territory. Palestinian health authorities deemed reliable by the United Nations say more than 15,000 Gazans have been confirmed killed and thousands more are missing and feared buried under rubble. Washington has said publicly that it was putting pressure on its ally Israel to better protect civilians once war resumed. Blinken, who had met Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday on his third trip to the region since the war began, had praised the truce and said Washington hoped it would be extended.
