66 Alerts From the FLORIDA Tag

The Economic Consequences of Photo Enforcement: NMA E-Newsletter #374

March 13, 2016 • ARIZONA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, NEWSLETTER, NMA Foundation, RED LIGHT CAMERA, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SHORT YELLOW LIGHT, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET REVENUE, YELLOW LIGHT, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING, YELLOW LIGHTS

Editor’s Note: News that red-light cameras in Jacksonville, Florida, delivered almost $368,000 in profits prompted this recent email exchange between NMA Foundation Executive Director Jim Walker and a city official. Jim’s economic argument against ticket cameras is instructive but clearly fell on deaf ears. His follow-up email is equally powerful. Note the official response to […]

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“Seriously? It’s Come to This?” Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #357

November 15, 2015 • CELL PHONE, CONNECTICUT, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, FOURTH AMENDMENT, MADD, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, NEWSLETTER, OHIO, TEXTING, TRAFFIC STOP

In August we recounted some driving stories that were just too absurd to be true (“Seriously? It’s Come to This?” NMA Newsletter #345). Alas, they were true, and the sad part is we’ve compiled enough stories for Part 2. So here goes. New Haven, Connecticut, has been experiencing an uptick in vehicle break-ins lately. The […]

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Where’s the Skepticism? NMA E-Newsletter #349

September 20, 2015 • ARIZONA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, IIHS, NEWSLETTER, SPEED CAMERA, TICKET CAMERA

Good reporters are skeptical by nature. They’re not supposed to take official pronouncements at face value; they’re supposed to dig deeper to get the real story. Yet, we constantly see lazy reporting on driving issues or stories that simply parrot the latest propaganda from the likes of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Don’t […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #348: Bogus Statistics Hide Real Problems and Solutions

September 13, 2015 • DRIVER EDUCATION, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, IIHS, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, SPEED TRAP, SPEEDING

Proponents of aggressive speed enforcement routinely trot out the old saw that speeding causes one-third of all traffic fatalities. Predictably, this dubious assertion showed up in the bogus IIHS speed camera report we deconstructed in last week’s newsletter. We say dubious because there is ample evidence to show that speed is a contributing factor in […]

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The “Gold Standard” for Red-Light Camera Accident Analysis: NMA E-Newsletter #346

August 30, 2015 • CALIFORNIA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SAFETY, TRAFFIC CAMERA

“Red-light cameras have helped cut wrecks by 83% in Richmond,” cheers a recent headline from The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Wow! That sounds almost too good to be true. Let’s read on. A little further into the story we learn that the 83 percent reduction was for a single intersection, not citywide, as the headline implies. And […]

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