June is Lane Courtesy Month and many state legislatures are taking on the problem of drivers who impede traffic by camping out in the left lane. The NMA long ago established June as the spotlight month for lane courtesy to raise awareness that keeping right to allow faster traffic to pass is one of the […]
7 Alerts From the TRAFFIC CONGESTION Tag
No lollygagging in the Left Lane, Please! Legislative Update on Lane Courtesy Laws: NMA E-Newsletter #438
June 4, 2017
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EMAIL NEWSLETTER, LANE COURTESY, LEGISLATION, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, MONTANA, NEVADA, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, NMA, NORTH CAROLINA, OKLAHOMA, OREGON, RHODE ISLAND, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, VIRGINIA
Bike Path Collisions – City Planners and Business Owners at Odds in Minneapolis: NMA E-Newsletter #437
Let’s focus for a moment on the opening statement of the NMA’s Streets That Work initiative: Motorists deserve roads that not only work, but can also be put to work. That means allowing people the freedom to travel to the destination of their choice when they want with the least amount of interference. That is […]
Anti-Car Pressure Groups Declare War on Good Highway Service: NMA E-Newsletter #431
Activist groups waging war on urban auto use under the guise of pedestrian and bicyclist advocacy have found a new hook for their campaign: the “level of service” measure used by traffic planners to describe how efficiently a road works. Traffic engineers use manuals to compare the hourly volume on a road or through an […]
We Need Our Roads-Better or Worse: NMA E-Newsletter #411
November 27, 2016
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DRIVERLESS CARS, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Gas Tax, NEWSLETTER, TRAFFIC CALMING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION
A seismic shift appears to be underway with regards to how experts view transportation. The new vocabulary includes words like multimodal and person-level transportation. Transportation experts want to move “people” instead of cars because most cars on the road today are single occupant vehicles or SOVs—not an efficient enough form of transportation apparently. Aren’t motorists […]
Transportation Shakeout from the 2016 Election: NMA E-Newsletter #409
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 […]
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