April 2, 2017
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ACLU,
ALABAMA,
ARKANSAS,
CALIFORNIA,
COLORADO,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
ILLINOIS,
KANSAS,
LOUISIANA,
MICHIGAN,
MISSISSIPPI,
MISSOURI,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
TENNESSEE,
TEXAS,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON
Alexander City, Alabama has agreed to give $680,000 to nearly 200 people who were jailed because they were too poor to pay their court fines. The suit filed in September 2015 by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claimed that the town ran “a modern-day debtors prison.” Indigent debtors served time in the municipal jail […]
November 13, 2016
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ALABAMA,
CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
GEORGIA,
ILLINOIS,
INDIANA,
MAINE,
MICHIGAN,
NEVADA,
NEW JERSEY,
NEWSLETTER,
NORTH CAROLINA,
OREGON,
PPP,
SAFETY,
SOUTH CAROLINA,
TEXAS,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
UTAH,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON
The entire country shared a sigh of relief when the election in-fighting finally ended this week. Before the election, President-elect Donald Trump released his ideas on rebuilding America’s infrastructure. He said he wants to put a trillion dollars into rebuilding infrastructure over the next 10 years without raising taxes. He plans to do this through […]
Dear Atlanta and Brookhaven area NMA Members, A proposal and resolution for traffic calming measures in the Brookhaven Heights neighborhood were discussed in the May 24th City Council Work Session. This proposal has residents in the adjacent Brookhaven Fields neighborhood stirring. The plan proposes: Partially close access from the neighborhood to and from North Druid Hills at Standard […]
August 23, 2015
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ALPR,
ARIZONA,
CANADA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
GEORGIA,
ILLINOIS,
LICENSE PLATE,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEEDING,
Technology,
TICKET REVENUE
We find ourselves saying that a lot these days as we run across more and more stories like these: The first comes from Edmonton, Alberta, where officials are considering disguising speed cameras as utility boxes. When asked about the idea, traffic safety director Gerry Shimko had nothing to say about the covert operation’s safety benefits. […]
January 25, 2015
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Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
SOUTH CAROLINA,
SPEEDING,
SUPER SPEEDER,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES
John Nettles probably didn’t give it a second thought when he got a speeding ticket in Ehrhardt, South Carolina, in 1997. Like most people, he simply paid it and moved on. But some 17 years later, that decision has cost him his job. It seems that Nettles’ ticket was never properly processed so it never […]
