How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Driving Behavior?
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Helpful Information | 2 Comments »In January 2008, the Congressional Budget Office put out a study examining the effects of gasoline prices on driving behavior. While the CBO’s analysis is somewhat dated -- it's based on four years of data collected from metropolitan freeways in ...
Atlanta Suburb Turns Drivers Into Fuel Pumps
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 8 Comments »It's a ridiculous concept, but somehow it seemed inevitable. Check out this story from USA Today: The surging price of gasoline has come to this: a "fuel surcharge" on your next speeding ticket. Drivers caught speeding in this north Atlanta suburb ...
Reinstating "55," Are They Crazy?!
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Speed Limits | 427 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The same forces that resisted the use of fire many thousands of years ago are still with us, only now they are advocating the return of the national maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour. Anyone ...
Why Don’t Politicians Care About Transportation Issues?
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Helpful Information | 6 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President In what has to be history’s longest political campaign, I have yet to hear anything meaningful about public policies that directly affect motorists. Sure, there have been inane and uneducated comments stimulated by major events, like the ...
How Should Speed Limits Be Set?
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Speed Limits | 14 Comments »By Bonnie Sesolak, NMA Development Director “Realistic" speed limits should invite public compliance by conforming to the behavior of normal responsible drivers. This results in the safest and most efficient use of streets, roads, and highways. Traffic engineering research has determined ...
Do Speeding Tickets Deter Drivers From Speeding?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 26 Comments »The NMA has long held that drivers will travel at a speed that is reasonable to them regardless of the speed limit. With arbitrarily low speed limits in place across much of the country, it's no surprise that ...
Legislator Legislates A Faster Ride Home
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Corruption | No Comments »Just in case you were living under the illusion that traffic laws are set by trained professionals (traffic engineers) and not politicians, here comes a story from TheNewspaper.com that is sure to change your mind: Just one day ...
Virginia’s "Abuser Fees" Get Dumped… For The Moment
Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in Corruption | 13 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Sometimes, the frog leaps before he's cooked. Remember the story about the frog and the pot of boiling water? So long as you raise the water temperature gradually, Mr. Frog doesn't ...
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 ...
