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“Driving While Black” Billboard Shines Light on City Ticket Records: NMA E-Newsletter #602

July 26, 2020 • Bicyclist, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FOIA, INSURANCE, NEWSLETTER, POLICING FOR PROFIT, PUBLIC RECORDS, RACIAL PROFILING, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, speed limits, SPEED TRAP, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Safety, Traffic stops, Traffic Tickets

By a Michigan NMA Member On July 6, an electronic billboard appeared along I-96 in Redford Township, Michigan, just east of the city limits of Livonia. It warned drivers leaving Detroit, “Driving while black? Racial profiling just ahead. Welcome to Livonia.” Livonia is a racially-mixed city of 97,000, covering 36 square miles of 1950s homes […]

Compunction to Shame needs to Stop: NMA E-Newsletter #593

May 24, 2020 • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Driver's License, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, MASS TRANSIT, NEWSLETTER, NMA, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, VISION ZERO

From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, anti-car groups have shamed, cajoled, and humiliated city officials to open streets and relegate vehicular traffic to the role of unwanted guests. These various programs, called Active Streets, Open Streets, Safe Streets, or Slow Streets, have popped up in nearly every major city in the country. Not only […]

Big Bike and Common Sense: NMA E-Newsletter #578

February 9, 2020 • Bicyclist, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, PEDESTRIAN, Red-Light Camera, Road Diet, Road Safety, Speed Cameras, speed limits, TRAFFIC CALMING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, Traffic Safety, VISION ZERO

By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director, and writer of the Keep the US Moving Blog. When did traffic safety become the purview of Big Bike and Vision Zero? In my experience, many motorists are hybrids: motorist/pedestrian, motorist/bicyclist, etc. The collective “We” are absolutely concerned about traffic safety. But why does it then feel like it […]

International Anti-Car Nonsense: NMA E-Newsletter #576

January 26, 2020 • Bicyclist, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMA, NMA BLOG, PEDESTRIAN, Road Safety, VISION ZERO

We recently updated and republished a popular post, Do Vision Zero Programs Equal More Traffic Accidents?, on the NMA Blog. The article points to several examples of cities where pedestrian/bicyclist accident and fatalities rates have not improved, and in many instances have increased, after expensive Vision Zero programs have been implemented. Such programs have the […]

So This is What Complete Streets Comes Down To?: NMA E-Newsletter #573

January 5, 2020 • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, LEGISLATION, NEWSLETTER, NMA, PEDESTRIAN, Road Diet, SAFETY, VISION ZERO

The Complete Streets Act of 2019, U.S. House Bill 3663, is creating a lot of rhetorical questions on our part. In NMA E-Newsletter #552, the title question was “An Appropriate Balance for Whom?” in response to the bill’s declaration that the needs of walkers and bike riders must be accommodated before those of drivers on […]

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