8 Alerts From the KANSAS Tag

Overland Park, KS: Future of US Highway 69 and the Proposed Express Toll Lanes: NMA E-Newsletter #647

June 6, 2021 • Congestion Pricing, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, ETL, Gas Tax, KANSAS, LEGISLATION, MASS TRANSIT, NEWSLETTER, NMA, Road Diets, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, TRAFFIC CALMING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, Traffic Safety

By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director On a recent Saturday evening, I spoke at a concerned-citizen Zoom meeting on the planned express toll lanes for US Highway 69 in Overland Park, Kansas. In researching the topic and listening to local residents and commuters, I thought it would be appropriate to write about the difficulty in […]

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A State Should Never Lease Its Roads: NMA E-Newsletter #614

October 18, 2020 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, infrastructure, KANSAS, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, PENNSYLVANIA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, TOLL ROAD

Reason Foundation’s Transportation Guru Robert Poole released a study in August of how nine states could financially benefit if they were to lease their toll road systems to private concerns. Poole writes that these states would gain significant income from a long-term public-private partnership (P3), especially if the state had already paid off its outstanding […]

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How Policing for Profit can lead to a Debtors’ Prisons: NMA E-Newsletter #429

April 2, 2017 • 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 […]

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NMA E-Newsletter: #305: T’row de Bum(s) Out!

November 16, 2014 • ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, KANSAS, MARYLAND, MISSOURI, NEWSLETTER, OHIO, PETITION, RED LIGHT CAMERA, TEXAS, TICKET CAMERA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN

By Gary Biller, NMA President Popular lore has it that the phrase “throw the bums out” originated during the 1941 World Series when the New York Yankees faced off against the Brooklyn Dodgers. A man supposedly walked into a bar—stop us if you’ve heard this one before—in Brooklyn in the midst of the games and […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #263: School Bus Cameras—The Latest Safety Fraud

January 27, 2014 • DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, KANSAS, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SAFETY, SCHOOL BUS, SCHOOL BUS CAMERA, Technology, TRAFFIC CAMERA

The good news is that the tide is turning against red-light cameras. Camera operators have been plagued by scandal, mismanagement and public backlash. As a result, the number of cities employing red-light cameras has dropped from 700 in 2011 to 500 today—a 28 percent decrease. The bad news is that the camera companies have found […]

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