9 Ways To Improve Traffic Safety That The Government Will Ignore Because They Are Too Busy Ticketing You
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 6 Comments »The Federal Highway Administration has strongly recommended nine tools for decreasing road fatalities. You can find them at the end of this article. Most of these tools are fairly basic and simple to implement. So why aren't they already universally ...
Funding Our Highways
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Toll Roads | 8 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The Bush administration just released another version of their plan to shift responsibility for highway funding to the “users.” This isn’t a bad idea, except that’s exactly the situation that has largely existed for most of ...
Fuel Economy & Toll Roads: Using One Problem To Solve Another
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Toll Roads | 3 Comments »By NMA President, James Baxter In the February issue of Car and Driver Magazine there were two articles that, in their own way dovetailed together to answer a question no one is ...
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, ...
Texas Toll Authorities Double-Bill 50,000 Drivers & Have No Plans To Stop In The Future
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Toll Roads | 1 Comment »According to a report in the Austin American Statesman, motorists on three Austin toll roads have been double-billed since charges began in January. One out of every 600 vehicles was double-billed in that time period. The money ...
