December 30, 2018
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85TH PERCENTILE,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Congestion Pricing,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
Insurance Company,
ITE,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
NSC,
NTSB,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
ROAD-USER FEES,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Safety,
Traffic Tickets
We wanted to do something special for Issue #520 because it marks ten years of uninterrupted weekly NMA e-newsletters that, we hope, have provided entertaining (if not thought-provoking) perspectives. To carry on that tradition, NMA and NMA Foundation directors were asked to provide mini essays for the occasion. No one likes homework but they tackled […]
December 9, 2018
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85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
ITE,
LETTER WRITING,
NCUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NMSL,
NTSB,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
VISION ZERO,
VMT
The Fall 2018 issue of the NMA member magazine Driving Freedoms (“The Big Lie”) sounded a clarion call against the dismantling of established traffic engineering standards by the very agencies tasked with upholding those standards and protecting the public. Swept up in the Vision Zero dream of achieving zero road fatalities, the Federal Highway Administration […]
December 3, 2017
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85TH PERCENTILE,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
LICENSE PLATE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
WASHINGTON D.C.
By Gary Biller, NMA President Enabled by contributors to our Spring 2017 Campaign, the NMA is pursuing its 2017-18 National Legislative Agenda in Washington. More precisely the current focus is on two of the agenda items – eliminating federally funded ticket blitzes and restricting the bounds of civil asset forfeiture. Part 2 of this newsletter […]
November 5, 2017
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85TH PERCENTILE,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
VIRGINIA
With great thanks to advocate Joe Bahen, the NMA played an active role in the development of the 2012-2016 Virginia Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). With the SHSP for the next five years now moving into the implementation phase, Joe continues to work with state officials to craft a safety roadmap that is effective and […]
August 6, 2017
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DRIVER EDUCATION,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
TICKET REVENUE
by Gary Biller, NMA President Why does the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) want to change its goal of providing legitimate highway safety research into an advocacy of ever-present, for-profit enforcement aimed primarily at safe drivers who are endangering no one? In a sweeping set of recommendations from its July 25, 2017 public meeting, the […]
