The Real ID Act: How Not To Use A Driver License
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Motorist Privacy | 9 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter The driver license should serve one and only one purpose; that is to certify that the owner of that license has proven that he or she is capable of operating a motor vehicle, ...
EZ-Pass Or EZ-Cash? Why Toll Roads Are A Bad Idea
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Toll Roads | 8 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter Electronic transponder technology, like E-ZPass, is making toll roads more palatable, but that doesn't mean toll roads are good public policy. Toll roads are an inefficient, backwards approach to providing public highways. Worse, they foster corruption, ...
Tyranny Of The Minority: Why Bad Traffic Laws Get Passed
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 12 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter The new “energy bill” that has just been signed into law has been baking for a long time. The automakers, after months of wrangling with the petroleum industry, environmentalists, consumer watchdogs, and one ...
8 Questions About Traffic Tickets That Politicians Never Answer
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 24 Comments »The classic image of government-endorsed corruption is the “highwayman” with badge and gun extracting money from a compromised traveler with no hope or relief in sight. In the past these scenes were depicted in the wastelands of ...
Move Over, Slow Down, And Crash!
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Posted in Traffic Congestion | 10 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter A common act in our driving culture is to move left, as far as practical and necessary, to give a little extra room to vehicles that are stopped along side the road. It could be someone ...
How To Reduce Holiday Traffic Fatalities
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in Helpful Information, Traffic Tickets | 4 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter The State of Virginia is lamenting the fact that the state's highway fatalities are on track to reach one thousand traffic-related deaths. Bringing this into sharper focus were the 16 fatalities that occurred over the Thanksgiving ...
No More Fines: A Traffic Safety Revolution
Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in Corruption, Traffic Tickets | 28 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter For over thirty years I have heard every excuse and permutation conceivable to justify more and larger fines for traffic law violations. The one thing they all have in common is that there is no evidence ...
It’s Just A Decimal Point: The Dirty Secret Behind Breathalyzers
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Corruption, DUI/DWI | 369 Comments »In 1990, the New Jersey courts declared that the science was settled, the debate was over: breath analysis is a reliable and accurate means by which to determine blood alcohol content (BAC). This proclamation is known as the “Downie ...
Traffic Tickets Are Big Business
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Corruption, Traffic Tickets | 77 Comments »Traffic tickets are a multi-billion industry. They have virtually nothing to do with highway safety, but they have everything to do with money. When you begin to grasp the full magnitude of the public and private interests that depend on ...
